Reply #24: The word "tit" isn't offensive. It's how Alan Simpson used it in context that is offensive.

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After 40 years of working, and spending 4 of those as a contractor for the military in Vietnam (fixing communications equipment and such), my father is one of those 310 million people "sucking on" the Social Security "tit".

My mother too.

They worked hard all their life. My father's been unemployed only for 6 months out of those total 40 years, and my mother worked for about 15 years on an assembly line at a small plant.

So they in no way are freeloaders like what Alan Simpson's comment suggested.