Bowles & Simpson get $40K every time they tell America it can't afford Social Security.

[HiPointDem]

Every time Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson talk about how the United States simply cannot afford to offer their citizens a modest income in retirement, they get $40,000.

This is three times the amount that Social Security recipients actually get themselves in retirement, ANNUALLY. Bowles and Simpson get that for an hourlong talk...

Alan Simpson, by the way, gets a fat government pension in honor of his service in the Senate, as well as government-provided health care. I don’t begrudge him it. Everyone should have the access to such benefits.

But there’s a certain insidiousness to these two very well-off people getting up and railing against how social insurance programs bankrupt the country, and walking away with three times the amount that any senior citizen gets as their Social Security benefit in A YEAR.

We need more exposes on speaking fees. It really is the unseen currency of the elites.

http://news.firedoglake.com/2012/11/28/bowles-and-simpson-rake-in-40000-per-speaking-engagement

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I don't begrudge them their pensions either......

But these speaking fees on top of that?

That is obscene.

Especially when you consider what they're talking about!

[MannyGoldstein]

2. It's a disgrace that Bush appointed these two to lead the charge on reforming government

He knew exactly what they'd come up with.

[Angry Dragon]

3. Obama appointed them

[MannyGoldstein]

4. Seriously?

Impossible. Why?

Take that back!

[Angry Dragon]

5. It was his commission after he got in office

here is a little reading

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Commission_on_Fiscal_Responsibility_and_Reform

[MannyGoldstein]

6. I was being sarcastic

But being too dry.

I was trying to make the point htat those two would have been Bush's pick if he had appointed this infernal commision.

[Angry Dragon]

8. bush figured he needed no commission to tell him how to fuck up this country

because he had cheney and all the old republican guard

[HiPointDem]

9. lol

[Tutonic]

7. I wouldn't give either one of em forty cents for that crappy report they produced.

Is insanity running rampant in the land?

[ReRe]

10. Yes

[ReRe]

11. Absolutely

We do need more exposes on speaking fees. Follow the yellow brick money trail road....

[Wilms]

12. ^