[Delayed delivery from somewhere in the Caribbean Sea]
[Alan Simpson, former outspoken Senator from my home state of Wyoming, calls
senior citizens the “Greediest Generation” as he compared “Social Security”
to a Milk Cow with 310 million teats. Here’s a response in a
letter-to-the-editor from a Patty Myers of neighboring Montana. I think she
is a little ticked off – and I tried to “clean up” her language for use on
my blog.]
“Hey Alan, let’s get a few things straight!!!!!
1. As a career politician, you have been on the public dole (tit) for FIFTY
YEARS.
2. I have been paying Social Security taxes for 48 YEARS (since I was 15
years old. I am now 63).
3. My Social Security payments, and those of millions of other Americans,
were safely tucked away in an interest bearing account for decades until you
political ____ decided to raid the account and give OUR money to a bunch of
zero losers in return for votes, thus bankrupting the system and turning
Social Security into a Ponzi scheme that would make Bernie Madoff proud.
4. Recently, just like Lucy & Charlie Brown, you and “your ilk” pulled the
proverbial football away from millions of American seniors nearing
retirement and moved the goalposts for full retirement from age 65 to age
67. NOW, you and your “shill commission” are proposing to move the goalposts
YET AGAIN?
5. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying into Medicare from
Day One, and now you ____ propose to change the rules of the game. Why?
Because you _____ mismanaged other parts of the economy to such an extent
that you need to steal our money from Medicare to pay the bills.
6. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying income taxes our
entire lives, and now you propose to increase our taxes yet again. Why?
Because you incompetent ____ spent our money so profligately that you just
kept on spending even after you ran out of money. Now, you come to the
American taxpayers and say you need more to pay off YOUR debt.
To add insult to injury, you label US “greedy” for calling out your
incompetence. Well, Captain ______ I have a few questions for YOU:
How much money have you earned from the American taxpayers during your
pathetic 50-year political career? At what age did you retire from your
pathetic political career, and how much are you receiving in annual
retirement benefits from the American taxpayers? How much do you pay for
YOUR government provided health insurance? What cuts in YOUR retirement and
healthcare benefits are you proposing in your disgusting deficit reduction
proposal, or as usual, have you exempted yourself and your political
cronies?
It is you and your political co-conspirators called Congress who are the
“greedy” ones. It is you and your fellow nutcase thieves who have bankrupted
America and stolen the American dream from millions of loyal, patriotic
taxpayers.
And for what? Votes and your job and retirement security at our expense, you
______ leech.
That’s right, sir. You and yours have bankrupted America for the sole
purpose of advancing your political careers. You know it, we know it, and
you know that we know it. And you can take that to the bank, you miserable
____.
P.S. And stop calling Social Security benefits “entitlements.” WHAT AN
INSULT! I’ve been paying into the SS system for 45 years. It’s MY money –
give it back to me the way the system was designed and stop patting yourself
on the back like you are being generous by doling out these monthly checks.
~~
Dr Bob Griffin
[email protected] www.grif.net
“Jesus Knows Me, This I Love!”