I just saw Alan Simpson on NBC. He repeated "greediest generation"

[madfloridian]

and said we needed to "sober up or sleep in the streets." I just caught the end of it, but that is nonsense.

How long does he get away with such insults?

And all Brian Williams said was "tough words."

Pathetic.

[TexasObserver]

1. Blame the president for exhuming Simpson for this commission.

[RKP5637]

4. Yep, that's the source. n/t

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[NaturalHigh]

18. Agreed.

[bluethruandthru]

24. That's right. Why did he bring simpson out and dust him off?

just to tell us "greedy" commoners to tighten our belts??

I'm sick of being told there's no money for health care, there's no money for infrastructure, there's no money for schools, there's no money for social security, medicare, and on and on....but...there's plenty of money for two wars, tax cuts for the rich and ANYTHING...absolutely ANYTHING that "business" wants!

American's need to wake up and stop worshiping at the altar of "business"! It's become the most sacred, revered word in the English language.

[TexasObserver]

29. Simpson was Cheney's mentor, for God's sake!

Simpson was a legendary troglodyte who never came down on the good side of anything.

For all we knew he was dead, until the president resurrected his sorry ass.

[Raster]

40. That's because the Lords of Money decreed that Obama resurrect Simpson.

And Obama, being the good priest to the Lords of Money said "yes sirs."

[MrMickeysMom]

Would that it could be reversed. This guy's a disastrous person with the name, "Simpson" trying to out-do Montgomery Burns.

[laughingliberal]

49. That's the word I've been looking for! Exhumation fits perfectly!

Yes. Thanks a pant load, Mr. President, for exhuming the rotting corpse of Alan Simpson to spew some more of his bile at anyone who is actually still alive.

[City Lights]

2. Such a fine gentleman!

:sarcasm:

[spanone]

3. funny how deficits only are in vogue when democrats are in office

otherwise, they are ignored....imagine if joe biden said today what cheney said when he was in office: 'deficits don't matter'. joe would be crucified by the republicans & the media

[Poll_Blind]

7. That's an interesting observation...n/t

PB

[givemebackmycountry]

9. And that is EXACTLY what he should do. TO-FUCKING-MORROW!

Get on Morning Joe or even the despicable IMUS show and say just that.

"Wars don't matter, tax cuts for the rich don't matter, so deficits do not matter".

Let them build the crosses to crucify him on.
THEN lets see what happens next.

[LiberalEsto]

6. Let Simpson sleep in the streets nt

[madfloridian]

8. He's a disgusting man. He should be fired.

[Hardrada]

12. He SHOULD be put in a dank dungeon with all the other neoliberals

and the key thrown into a distant lake.

[laughingliberal]

51. +1,000,000 nt

[Individualist]

17. He's a filthy son of a bitch!

[Buns_of_Fire]

56. He's serving his purpose -- absorbing a lot of the heat aimed at the man who appointed him.

In my more charitable moments (which are becoming fewer and fewer), I imagine that THAT'S why the President appointed him as co-chair -- a man guaranteed to piss off EVERYBODY -- to totally discredit any recommendations of the Catfood Commission.

Good cop, bad cop, 23rd dimensional chess. Who knows anymore?

[Rex]

10. I don't care what the fuckface said, he sleeps at night knowing

HE and his kind are the core of the 'greediest generation' or has he refused his salary and medical benefits before saying what he said? Pathetic piece of trash, I hope he rots from the inside out.

[PBS Poll-435]

11. Somebody has to play the bad guy in this farce. nt

[pa28]

13. But for the rich the party will continue.

Simpson wants to give them a huge tax cut while the rest of us "sober up or sleep in the streets".

[RainDog]

14. What a motherfucking piece of dog shit

honestly.

who in the hell does that asshole think he is to tell people to sober up - I'm so glad I did not hear that on tv or I swear I would have thrown a chair at it.

I wish someone would slap some sense into that twit.

Americans work harder for less money and benefits than ANY other people in the western world, you fucking scumbag, Simpson.

Maybe if you hadn't spent so much time sucking shit out of corporate ass you would know that.

I HATE THIS MAN.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

15. Still waiting for Obama to express his DISAGREEMENT

with Sphincter's insults. He hasn't - thus, IMO he agrees. As does every other "Democrat", apparently.

They need to change the name of this site to "Lost Underground" - because the Democratic Party is certainly lost - and will continue to lose at this rate.

[Uncle Joe]

16. Newsflash for Simpson an entire generation or two "sleeping in the streets" will not be sleeping,

they'll be looking for your bony ass to make soup.

Thanks for the thread, madfloridian.

[NICO9000]

19. How does he define greed?

Having a roof over your head
A job that pays a living wage?

Food for yourself and your family?

I am so sick of these rich pricks and their "I got mine, screw you!" attitude. And fuck corporate shill Williams for his non-response. Oh wait - he's an obscenely overpaid asswipe too!

:mad: (to the Nth degree)

[grasswire]

20. He could easily play Scrooge in the theater.

Or some Dickensian miser or tyrant.

Bony old Scrooge. Hateful man.

[kayakjohnny]

23. Or even this....

[Little Star]

21. Projection much you greedy SOB Simpson. n/t

[madrchsod]

22. that is the person obama wanted.

will he will agree with simpsons on just enough to be assured of the funds to run again in 2012? i guess we will have to wait for his answer

[suffragette]

25. Interesting that the commission he co-chairs is violating their own

charter and bylaws by not having voted today:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=4635762&mesg_id=4637736

And they aren't called on it or held to it?

But for those who have played by the rules and expect that to be acknowledged and promises to be kept (Social Security, for example) he has nothing but contempt and "tough" words.


Absolutely appalling.

[madfloridian]

26. Here's the video clip.

I think he is calling seniors the greediest generation, and he says for young people to sober up or sleep in the streets.

Bowles is the most ineffective looking and talking guy I have seen.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/#40461772

[glitch]

27. Evil and proud of it.

I bet he and Cheney are close.

[Skink]

28. If Simpson went on a hunting trip with Cheney

Nevermind:yoiks:

[Jefferson23]

30. Obama placed this damn bastard as co-chair and he could have

removed him. His choice of Simpson was disturbing not because he is a Republican, but one who peddled the LIE like no other Republican and continues to do so.

Krugman and others have debunked the lie yet this is who Obama picked and did not remove. There was NOTHING responsible about
the selection of Simpson.


June 21, 2010, 12:12 pm
Zombies Have Already Killed The Deficit Commission
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/21/zombies-have-already-killed-the-deficit-commission/

[Mimosa]

31. Brian Williams used to identify as a Republican.

Simpson is SCUM.

[bunkerbuster1]

32. If you saw Alan Simpson being beaten to a pulp on the street...

nope, neither would I.

[laughingliberal]

53. In order to feel pain, one must first be alive. I don't think reanimated corpses count so, me either

:)

[Individualist]

33. Obama's appointee.

:puke:

[The_Casual_Observer]

34. According to these bastards the rollback should go all the way back

to the gilded age. But it's not that simple, pushing too far tends to cause social upheaval & revolt on a grand scale.

[TheWebHead]

35. the "greediest generation" was written about in Forbes

last month:
http://www.forbes.com/2010/11/11/greedy-boomers-social-security-medicare-cuts-personal-finance-kotlikoff.html

it's provocative but when you're running dangerous deficits on top of dangerous debt and most dangerous projected deficits primarily caused by medicare, an entitlement to that generation being referred to, it's something to think about.

Nicholas Kristof also wrote about this in 2005 during the prescription drug benefit debate:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/01/opinion/01kristof.html

[madfloridian]

37. Did you say primarily caused by Medicare...an "entitlement"

"it's provocative but when you're running dangerous deficits on top of dangerous debt and most dangerous projected deficits primarily caused by medicare, an entitlement to that generation being referred to, it's something to think about."

Bullsh**

Are you aware that seniors pay for Soc. Sec. all their life, and then they pay monthly for Medicare? I think it is upt to 112 a month now.

I am sick of hearing propaganda like this.

[RainDog]

39. oh fuck this shit

what are we, a fucking banana republic?

people are supposed to do off and die because the rich might have to pay taxes some times?

GAWD I am so sick of this shit.

this is one of the richest fucking nations in the world.

is it so fucking hard to understand that the wealthy in this nation can pay to benefit the common good? is their shit made of gold - are the so fucking precious and special they have no sense of decency?

my head just wants to explode because of this shit I see that is a bipartisan attack ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

The govt. of this nation IS ATTACKING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

I swear this is going to come back on them. hard. and I hope it does because they deserve it after the shit they are asking the American people to eat. What a worthless low down no good waste of oxygen the entire political class is in this nation.

If they all dropped dead tomorrow we'd probably all be better off.

[Lorien]

50. True. nt

[Blue_Tires]

52. believe it or not, that REALLY is the mindset of wealth...

[Lorien]

48. Medicare? What about the Pentagon and the WARS???

If we had Universal Health care that included price controls we'd spend 1/3 what we do on Medicare.

[laughingliberal]

54. Love it! The class that inherited the silver spoons up their butts call others greedy.

Simpson, Forbes, Bowles, and all their oligarch enabling friends can take their scary long term deficit projections and stick 'em up there alongside those silver spoons.

[Mike Nelson]

36. Alan Simpson is one of the most....

...wretched human beings in politics. A "homespun" man of evil intent. Remember how he McCarthyized Anita Hill? If I were President Obama, I wouldn't take his calls - he is a Z.E.R.O.

[The Backlash Cometh]

38. We should have beat him to the punch.

And framed that generation better, to pin point those who follow GOP policies. Because they are greedy. It's all about them. The thought of someone else benefiting from a penny of their taxes makes them recoil with horror.

[donheld]

41. If he's talking about republicans he's right.

[wo ooo]

42. again,plutocracy

those poors are so damn greedy, actually wanting to not die and eat and shit.

[QC]

43. Who hired that asshole, anyway? n/t

[laughingliberal]

55. Yeah, what was that guy's name? Come to think of it, who created the horrible commission? nt

[MrMickeysMom]

44. That explains my husband's cursing streak tonight...

There were lots of "FUCK YOU!"s and, "YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE FUCKING TALKING ABOUT, CRIMINAL FUCK-TARD!"s being said.

Yeah, that must have been it...

[somone]

45. And Obama hired Alan Simpson

A company is known by the people they hire

[felix_numinous]

46. It is their 'Let them eat cake' moment

yeah, keep it up.

[Lorien]

47. If the Dems had any sense of unity or leadership whatsoever they could

hammer the GOP into dust with this B.S. But no; they're in disarray, waiting for a Repug to "reach across the aisle" and give them a hug.

[Raine]

57. Obama appointed him so I can't help but wonder

if they share that opinion, if not why doesn't Obama rein him in. :-(