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jtown1123

(3,203 posts)
Thu May 24, 2012, 04:04 PM May 2012

Social Security Hater Alan Simpson Needs to Shut Up Already



Alan Simpson strikes again...a national seniors advocacy group responds:


Wanted: A Political Intervention for Alan Simpson

By NCPSSM | May 24, 2012

We wrote yesterday about Fiscal Commission Co-Chairman and former Senator Alan Simpson’s latest diatribe against seniors – this time launched at the Alliance for Retired Americans in California.

For anyone who’s been in Washington for awhile, these rants are really just déjà vu all over again. But even as a “charter member of the Simpson tongue-lashing club” our President/CEO, Max Richtman, found this latest attack simply too much. So he wrote Senator Simpson a letter asking him to cease and desist his hate-filled attacks on seniors:

May 24, 2012

Senator Alan Simpson
1201 Sunshine Avenue
Cody, Wyoming 82414

Dear Senator Simpson,

We’ve both been in this business for a long time and we’ve certainly had our share of fundamental disagreements about America’s priorities and how to protect them. As you well know, I’m a charter member of the Simpson tongue-lashing club going back to my time as Staff Director at the Senate Aging Committee and since. However, after reading your letter to seniors in California, who simply dared to oppose your reforms for Social Security and Medicare, I feel compelled to ask you to refocus this debate where it belongs. Call this a political intervention, if you will.

The American people deserve and expect a true dialogue in which retirees are more than “greedy geezers” and those with opposing world views aren’t treated with the total disrespect you hand out so freely. After thirty years, isn’t it long past time to elevate the conversation beyond personal and profane attacks on those you simply disagree with?

I know this letter is likely an exercise in futility. However, I’m writing to you today with one simple request – please cease and desist with the mean-spirited, denigrating, and hate-filled personal attacks on America’s seniors. Sure, some in the press still love the profanity laden poison-pen letters and insulting sound-bites, but it only denigrates the serious policy work many honest and caring people on both sides of the debate perform each and every day, not to mention the American people who will ultimately be impacted by the reforms being debated.

No doubt you consider all of this “blather and drivel” or even your favorites “horse or bulls**t”. However, that fact has absolutely nothing to do with the serious business at hand. Please refocus your attention to what really matters – your proposed reforms and the American people who will be affected by them.

Sincerely,
Max Richtman
President/CEO
The National Committee to Preserve Social Security & Medicare
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Social Security Hater Alan Simpson Needs to Shut Up Already (Original Post) jtown1123 May 2012 OP
All that needs to be said hifiguy May 2012 #1
Well done! n/t jtown1123 May 2012 #2
LOL! perfection. nt abelenkpe May 2012 #4
Except . . . gratuitous May 2012 #5
I would like to know the details about the personal wealth of all the people JDPriestly May 2012 #6
"...many honest and caring people on both sides of the debate..." tularetom May 2012 #3
Does he collect a SS check? sabrina 1 May 2012 #7
As I have said, and will continue to say, the Simpson family tsuki May 2012 #8
Why not send Alan Simpson some cat food? meow2u3 May 2012 #9

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
5. Except . . .
Thu May 24, 2012, 04:12 PM
May 2012

This particular stupid old man keeps getting appointed to commissions to decide for the rest of us whether we really need social security or not.

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
6. I would like to know the details about the personal wealth of all the people
Thu May 24, 2012, 04:50 PM
May 2012

who sit on Commissions and Committees that issue statements about Social Security.

As a Social Security recipient, I want to be able to judge for myself whether they have the needed perspective to determine whether I need Social Security or not.

Let's make sure that all those commissions include some poor folks -- not just rich ones.

tularetom

(23,664 posts)
3. "...many honest and caring people on both sides of the debate..."
Thu May 24, 2012, 04:11 PM
May 2012

Who, in Mr. Richtman's opinion, are the honest and caring people on the "kill SS and Medicare" side of the debate?

sabrina 1

(62,325 posts)
7. Does he collect a SS check?
Thu May 24, 2012, 05:03 PM
May 2012

He attacked Veterans also for collecting their benefits, saying they were heroes when they were on active duty, but were not any longer for collecting their benefits.

I wouldn't be surprised if he is collecting SS himself, like Ayn Rand, who is probably one of his heroes. Nor that he is collecting Veterans' benefits, or Senate benefits, such as taking advantage of the tax-payer funded HC he gets as a member of Congress.


He sounds crazier and crazier each time he opens his mouth.

tsuki

(11,994 posts)
8. As I have said, and will continue to say, the Simpson family
Thu May 24, 2012, 05:22 PM
May 2012

has been living on the political dole for three generations. Time someone in that family got a job and quit being a burden on the taxpayer.

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