Would you buy a Used Car from this man?

I’ve always had a thing about people with shifty, beady eyes. I don’t trust ’em. Two folks from Wyoming top my list in that category. The first is Dick Cheney. Close behind him is the Cat Food Commission’s Alan Simpson. Why any one would want to resurrect this man’s nasty career is beyond me. That a Democratic president was responsible for it, just makes me irritated. If his last comment isn’t a reason to send him back to BrokeIdeas Mountain, nothing will be.

Liberals and groups in favor of preserving Social Security are calling for the co-chair of President Obama’s deficit commission to resign after he said in an e-mail that Social Security is “a milk cow with 310 million tits.”

In a letter responding to criticisms against him from a group representing older women, former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson wrote that he has “spent many years in public life trying to stabilize” Social Security. However, he wrote, “Yes, I’ve made some plenty smart cracks about people on Social Security who milk it to the last degree. You know ’em too. It’s the same with any system in America. We’ve reached a point now where it’s like a milk cow with 310 million tits!”

Simpson and former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles, the co-chairs of Mr. Obama’s bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, have raised the ire of liberals with remarks suggesting they intend to recommend scaling back Social Security as a means of reducing the deficit.

However, groups are saying today that Simpson’s latest remarks prove he is unfit to lead the commission and should resign.

How many times must we repeat that Social Security is an insurance program that people pay for with their hard earned cash and their boss’s profits? It’s not some mean-based social program. The very rich get topped out of it because there’s even a maximum benefit and maximum premium. You don’t collect if you don’t pay into it. That’s not a welfare program!
A copy of Simpson’s email can be found on The Atlantic along with an excerpt from folks calling on him to resign his position.

Here’s the resignation call from Eric Kingston, co-director of Social Security Works:

“Alan Simpson’s comments are offensive and sexist and clearly demonstrate that he is unfit to continue to lead the President’s Fiscal Commission. His comments not only show his true view of women and older Americans but also his disdain for the very program he claims he is trying to protect – Social Security. Social Security Works is demanding that he resign immediately. If he will not, the President must fire him. Alan Simpson has no business deciding the fate of hundreds of millions of Americans’ retirement future. He should have no power over Social Security, which provides vital economic support to millions of children and people with disabilities, as well as seniors and their families.”

Simpson continues to be a menace to the middle class. Why on earth would Obama bring him back from the dead unless he’s serious about ransacking Social Security along with the rest of the Republicans?

Here’s the worst part of Simpson’s letter.

If you have some better suggestions about how to stabilize Social Security instead of just babbling into the vapors, let me know. And yes, I’ve made some plenty smart cracks about people on Social Security who milk it to the last degree. You know ’em too. It’s the same with any system in America. We’ve reached a point now where it’s like a milk cow with 310 million tits! Call when you get honest work!