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watoos

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43. Actually I don't mind

Reply to zeeland (Original post)

Tue Apr 23, 2013, 01:57 PM

Apr 2013

if they call SS an entitlement. I too paid into it for 45 years and so, yes, I feel that I am entitled to it.

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Patty Myers from Montana has a message for Sen. Alan Simpson. [View all] zeeland Apr 2013 OP

She speaks for me!!!!! newfie11 Apr 2013 #1

Agree with the sentiment truebluegreen Apr 2013 #2

I wish I could recommend this more than once. Buns_of_Fire Apr 2013 #3

Social Security SamKnause Apr 2013 #4

Nailed IT! bvar22 Apr 2013 #5

She really should learn to express herself more forcefully. Demoiselle Apr 2013 #6

k & r OldHippieChick Apr 2013 #7

K&r enthusiastically erinlough Apr 2013 #8

please tell me this rightwing excrement is NOT gonna make the front page again hfojvt Apr 2013 #9

Captain Bullshit! Matariki Apr 2013 #10

Check it out at Snopes Playinghardball Apr 2013 #11

I wholeheartedly agree with everything in the post but I believe I xtraxritical Apr 2013 #12

I don't agree with everything Martin Eden Apr 2013 #23

What a toxic POS Simpson is. nt valerief Apr 2013 #13

cool but...isnt this an old letter? rings a bell from a few years back... CarrieLynne Apr 2013 #14

Yep, but they changed a few insignificant things; like the tax cuts to the rich from juajen Apr 2013 #29

a work of pure art!!! beachgirl2365 Apr 2013 #15

Best poetry I have read for ages! asjr Apr 2013 #16

A-freakin'-men! meow2u3 Apr 2013 #17

re: Patty Myers from Montana has a message for Sen. Alan Simpson. allan01 Apr 2013 #18

K&R Couldn't have said it better myself. forestpath Apr 2013 #19

Simpson is a horse's ass Faygo Kid Apr 2013 #20

Spot on Augiedog Apr 2013 #21

HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!! WillyT Apr 2013 #22

Eloquent . . . to the point. . . she speaks for me! Liberal In Red State Apr 2013 #24

And for me as well! calimary Apr 2013 #31

it never fails to amaze me hfojvt Apr 2013 #32

He made those comments years ago, didn't he? It was when Simpson-Boles Honeycombe8 Apr 2013 #25

Funny how that works Canuckistanian Apr 2013 #26

Alas, according to Snopes no such woman exists, else I'd try to help her campaign for office... Moonwalk Apr 2013 #27

AMEN - Social Security is not an entitlement, its the property of the people who paid into it. Moostache Apr 2013 #28

i love this post Vietnameravet Apr 2013 #36

Damn, she's good! tex-wyo-dem Apr 2013 #30

address that to obama (and bowles) as well. nt tomp Apr 2013 #33

Address it to him and the rest of the Party Boys in DC and Put My name to it as well!!!!!!!! BillyRibs Apr 2013 #34

Great letter!! nothing I can add to the complements already given.. Vietnameravet Apr 2013 #35

One could compare Alan Simpson to the teats on 310 million mules. Orsino Apr 2013 #37

And I'm sure he considers himself "the greatest generation". AAO Apr 2013 #38

So glad so many others heard Patty Myers zeeland Apr 2013 #39

I am seeing this posted on FB by some with right leanings ... SomeGuyInEagan Apr 2013 #40

K&R Mr. Simpson need to live like the rest of us without insider trading rights... midnight Apr 2013 #41

piss on Alan Simpson KG Apr 2013 #42

Actually I don't mind watoos Apr 2013 #43

As another Montanan WoodyD Apr 2013 #44

KILL THE GRUMPS! emilydickinson Jun 2014 #45

Grups, not Grumps merrily Jun 2014 #46