Wednesday, August 25, 2010

"Like A Milk Cow With 310 Million Tits"

That is how Alan Simpson, Barack Obama's hand picked Co-Chair of his "Deficit Commision" sees Social Security.

The commission has been meeting in secret over the past couple months, and they'd probably be staying out of the spotlight if the committee's Co-Chair wasn't one of the biggest assholes in the history of the universe:
Alan Simpson believes that Social Security is "like a milk cow with 310 million tits," according to an email he sent to the executive director of National Older Women's League Tuesday morning. Simpson co-chairs the deficit commission, which is considering various proposals to cut Social Security benefits.

Simpson's email, which OWL chief Ashley Carson released publicly, (PDF) was sent in response to an April blog post Carson wrote for the Huffington Post. Carson criticized Simpson for repeatedly describing his Social Security opponents as "Pink Panthers," arguing that the description had sexist connotations.

His email is peppered with exclamation points and condescension. At one point he urged Carson to read a certain graph, "which I hope you are able to discern if you are any good at reading graphs."

Simpson concludes by implying that leading a major organization dedicated to the interests of middle-aged and elderly women is not "honest work."

"If you have some better suggestions about how to stabilize Social Security instead of just babbling into the vapors, let me know," he writes. "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!"
While it would still be difficult to pass social security cuts at any time, it needs to be clear that if social security were to get cut, it would have to be a Democrat who does it.

These type of things can only happen when the defenders of these programs can be divided and triangulated against, in a Welfare Reform/NAFTA kind of way. Those who defend the administration's creation of the deficit commission do so by pointing out the small chance that any of their recommendations will pass, admitting that it was designed to promote cuts of either social security or medicare.

Alan Simpson is an unbelievable dick who has fought to cut social security his whole life, so it's hard for me to be to surprised when he says something this idiotic. I've got my anger saved up for Barack Obama who not only created this commission but appointed assholes like Alan Simpson to it.

Like 99% of the stuff done in the name of "deficit reduction", the commission was never about reducing the deficit. It's about the views of people who believe that Social Security is a "cow with 310 million tits" and organizing to do away with the most popular government program in the history of the United States.

So when people are confused about why the Democrats got slaughtered in November and why so many of the people that turned out for Barack Obama didn't turn out this time, maybe it's because the Administration we elected decided it was worth dedicating resources to bullshit like this.

Obama can't un-create his own commission, but he can fire Alan Simpson immidiately. It's the least he can do at this point.

2 comments:

  1. I am registered as a democrat, and I will say this bluntly.

    FUCK THAT GUY.

    On top of being a sexist asshole, he's apparently trying to cut my unemployed (benefits ran out) father's only remaining source of income (aside from my still-employed mother). I want him fired yesterday. Also Geithner, while we're firing people.

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  2. Amen. He really is a monster. It takes a special breed of asshole to dedicate your life to ending a program that is essential to so many.

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