SOCIAL SECURITY: "like a milk cow with 310 million tits!"

[Book]

http://i.usatoday.net/communitymanager/_photos/the-oval/2010/08/25/Simpsonx-large.jpg

Obama deficit panel head: Social Security a 'milk cow'
02:47 PM

Groups representing seniors and women are calling on President Obama to replace the Republican co-chairman of a bipartisan fiscal commission over his, shall we say, colorful description of Social Security.

In an email to the head of OWL, which bills itself as "the voice of midlife and older women," former Wyoming senator Alan Simpson called the retirement insurance system "like a milk cow with 310 million tits!" It's in financial trouble, he wrote, because of people who "milk it to the last degree."

It didn't help that Simpson, who's long been known for his salty language and devil-may-care politics, also accused Ashley Carson of "babbling into the vapors" with her steadfast defense of the Social Security system. Or that he signed off: "Call when you get honest work!"

Simpson co-chairs the 18-member panel that's looking into long-term fixes for a budget running $1.5 trillion in the red and a national debt that's topped $13.3 trillion. The panel is due to report to Obama and Congress in December. Social Security is among the potential targets for savings.

Linky (http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2010/08/obama-deficit-panel-head-social-security-a-milk-cow/1)

:D

[Sparky]

Are there any Obama appointees that aren't washed-up re-treads from former administrations?

The very thought that Simpson is a co-chair on this committee does not give me a warm feeling that fresh new forward-looking solutions are on they way.

[Bubble Fat]

The good senator is correct.

I know, you paid your 40 quarters into the Ponzi scheme. So did I.

A wise man once said:
Do not depend on SSI to be there when you retire.


anybody know who said that?

:morph:

[Sparky]

Yes, criticism aside, he is correct. I just don't seem him as one to bring a solution. But you never know; maybe it takes an old man with nothing to lose to take the political hit for an unpopular and painful solution.

(Have you noticed how many of these committees are due to report AFTER the November elections?)

[mike88]

the milk cow is large enough, the elephant apears to be corporate welfare[ defense]

[RJB]

"like a milk cow with 310 million tits!"Book, don't tell me you don't have a photoshop for this... :D

[Phoenix]

Military pay up 208% since 2000:

<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2010-08-16-military-towns_N.htm">"Soldiers, sailors and Marines received average compensation of $122,263 per person in 2009, up from $58,545 in 2000."</a>

As for you PEONS who actually paid for your insurance benefits, eat sh*t and die!