Let me understand this. A republican makes a comment about Social Security being like a milk cow with 310 million tits, and he is asked to resign from Obama's deficit commission? Where were these PC police when Harry Reid made his "light-skinned" and "no negro dialect" comment? Where are these same hypocrite on the subject of health care rationing comments made by Obama appointee Dr. Donald Berwick?
What Alan Simpson said is factually true. Most Americans look to Social Security to fund their full retirement. Social Security was designed to be a supplement for retirement. Now that Social Security is paying out more than it takes in, Americans have to realize that the system needs to be changed.
Reuters reports:
The co-chairman of a commission on the U.S. budget deficit came under fire on Wednesday after an off-color remark that likened the payment of government retirement benefits to milking cows.
Women's groups and some lawmakers called for the resignation of Alan Simpson, a Republican who serves on the bipartisan deficit panel created by President Barack Obama.
Simpson wrote this week in an email to one of his critics the Social Security retirement program has reached the point "where it's like a milk cow with 310 million tits."
He later issued an apology for the comment.
Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent, and Representative Peter DeFazio, a Democrat, said the comments were "beyond comprehension" and demeaned older Americans and disabled people who receive Social Security benefits. They wrote to Obama to ask that Simpson be removed from the commission.
Two socialist progressive Democrats claim Simpson's remark is "beyond comprehension." Where were they on the comments made by KKK-leader, and Democrat, Robert Byrd and his "beyond comprehension" comments about black Americans? Hypocrites.
The National Organization for Women said Simpson was "not fit to lead" the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.
NOW is the same group who push woman to abort millions of little women every years. In their book, opinions are bad while murder is fine and dandy.
The former senator from Wyoming made the comment about milking cows in an e-mail this week to Ashley Carson, executive director of the Older Women's League, which identifies itself as representing the interests of middle-aged and older women.
Simpson's e-mail took issue with a column Carson wrote in April accusing him of "ageism and sexism" for considering cuts to Social Security.
Where is the Older Women's League outrage about Obama and the Democrats cutting $500 billion from Medicare to pay for their socialized health care bill?
"If you have some better suggestions about how to stabilize Social Security instead of just babbling into the vapors, let me know," wrote Simpson, 78, adding, "Call me when you get honest work."
Simpson, known for his biting sense of humor, wrote an apology letter to Carson, saying he had put his foot in his mouth and adding "when I make a mistake, it's a doozy."
"I apologize for what I wrote," he said.
CALL FOR RESIGNATION
OWL has said Simpson should resign from the panel, and if he will not, that Obama should ask him to leave.
Simpson serves alongside Erskine Bowles, a Democrat and former White House chief of staff, and 16 other panelists.
A White House official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said of the Simpson controversy, "He has apologized and while we regret and do not condone his comments, we accept his apology and he will continue to serve."
AARP, which represents older Americans, said the remarks called into question Simpson's ability to consider important fiscal matters such as the future of Social Security.
The same AARP who sold their support to ObamaCare for a few special deals?
"Sen. Simpson's remarks not only cross the line of good judgment, but they undermine the serious work of the commission and give us little confidence the commission can fairly look at important programs such as Social Security," the group said in a statement.
Social Security is in the red by $694,000,000,000. It is the biggest Ponzi scheme in history. There is no money in the system. It's all IOU's thanks to politicians who raided the system to pay for other entitlements. Let's keep things the way they are so Social Security will end faster. That's what these Progressive Socialists Democrats want.
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