Don't call me Greedy

[Slipknot]

maybe you got this in an email, if not
read it

Subject: Don't Call Me Greedy!







This pretty much says it all..





THIS SENIOR CITIZEN NAILED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Alan Simpson, Senator from Wyoming , Co-Chair of Obama's deficit
commission, calls senior citizens the Greediest Generation as he
compared " Social Security " to a Milk Cow with 310 million teats.
August, 2010..


Here's a response in a letter from a unknown fellow in Montana... I
think he is a little ticked off ! He also tells it like it is !





"Hey Alan, let's get a few things straight...

1. As a career politician, you have been on the public dole for FIFTY
YEARS.

2. I have been paying Social Security taxes for 48 YEARS (since I was 15
years old. I am now 63).

3. My Social Security payments , and those of millions of other
Americans, were safely tucked away in an interest bearing account for
decades until you political pukes decided to raid the account and give
OUR money to a bunch of zero ambition losers in return for votes, thus
bankrupting the system and turning Social Security into a Ponzi scheme
that would have made Bernie Madoff proud.

4. Recently, just like Lucy & Charlie Brown , you and your ilk pulled the
proverbial football away from millions of American seniors nearing
retirement and moved the goalposts for full retirement from age 65 to
age 67. NOW, you and your shill commission is proposing to move the
goalposts YET AGAIN.

5. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying into Medicare
from Day One, and now you morons propose to change the rules of the
game. Why? Because you idiots mismanaged other parts of the economy to
such an extent that you need to steal money from Medicare to pay the
bills.

6. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying income taxes our
entire lives, and now you propose to increase our taxes yet again. Why?
Because you incompetent bastards spent our money so profligately that
you just kept on spending even after you ran out of money. Now, you come
to the American taxpayers and say you need more to pay off YOUR debt.

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To add insult to injury, you label us "greedy" for calling "bull#^&#^&#^&#^&" on
your incompetence. Well, Captain Bull#^&#^&#^&#^&, I have a few questions for
YOU.

1. How much money have you earned from the American taxpayers during
your pathetic 50-year political career?

2. At what age did you retire from your pathetic political career, and
how much are you receiving in annual retirement benefits from the
American taxpayers?

3. How much do you pay for YOUR government provided health insurance?

4. What cuts in YOUR retirement and healthcare benefits are you
proposing in your disgusting deficit reduction proposal, or, as usual,
have you exempted yourself and your political cronies?

It is you, Captain Bull#^&#^&#^&#^&, and your political co-conspirators who are
"greedy". It is you and they who have bankrupted America and stolen the
American dream from millions of loyal, patriotic taxpayers. And for
what? Votes. That's right, sir. You and yours have bankrupted America
> for the sole purpose of advancing your pathetic political careers. You
know it, we know it, and you know that we know it.

And you can take that to the bank, you miserable son of a bitch."



PASS IT ON!!!!






nt.

[justplugit]

Originally Posted by Slipknot

maybe you got this in an email, if not
read it

Subject: Don't Call Me Greedy!
This pretty much says it all..

Yup, it sure does. Sad, but absolutely true.

[fishbones]

I hadn't seen this. Thanks for sharing, Slip.

[JohnR]

But it was for the good of the people ....

[tysdad115]

And to think I only have 29 years to pay into it, by that time SS will be totally dissolved but our weekly contributions will keep increasing. How can we pay for something that won't be available when we need it? I guess my retirement plan of living under the canal rocks with nothing but my gear will come true after all.

[JohnnyD]

Originally Posted by tysdad115

And to think I only have 29 years to pay into it, by that time SS will be totally dissolved but our weekly contributions will keep increasing. How can we pay for something that won't be available when we need it? I guess my retirement plan of living under the canal rocks with nothing but my gear will come true after all.

Social Security... The largest Ponzi Scheme ever created.

[zimmy]

Simpson is an old time conservative, too. I don't really get the greediness comment?
in reference to the guy in Montana's point #4:
“We know what to do on Social Security. I put on the table [a proposal] adjusting the age from 67 to 69,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Wednesday." (1/27/2011).
People 40 and younger are almost certainly gonna be out of luck on SS. If it is still around, you won't get it until you are 78.

[scottw]

Originally Posted by JohnnyD

Social Security... The largest Ponzi Scheme ever created.

Spence- "it's not a Ponzi scheme..there's a lot of money in the trust fund, it's just invested in America right now and if you don't believe it, you hate America"..."the problem is revenue not spending, in other words, you aren't working hard enough to support this scheme...errrr...valuable social program...just pay your taxes, and maybe pick up a side job or two"...http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...es-krauthammer

Political Turbulence: Dem Senator Owes $280,000 in Unpaid Taxes for Private Plane
Posted on March 21, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Claire McCaskill’s office said Wednesday she plans to sell her private plane and will pay $287,273 in four years of back taxes owed.

According to Politico, McCaskill also spent $76,000 from her Senate budget on trips on the aircraft over the past four years, prompting the senator to repay more than $88,000 — the cost of the trips plus pilots — to the U.S. Treasury.

must be hangin' with John Kerry

[JohnnyD]

Originally Posted by scottw

Political Turbulence: Dem Senator Owes $280,000 in Unpaid Taxes for Private Plane
Posted on March 21, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Claire McCaskill’s office said Wednesday she plans to sell her private plane and will pay $287,273 in four years of back taxes owed.

According to Politico, McCaskill also spent $76,000 from her Senate budget on trips on the aircraft over the past four years, prompting the senator to repay more than $88,000 — the cost of the trips plus pilots — to the U.S. Treasury.

must be hangin' with John Kerry

What does this have to do with anything regarding SS being a Ponzi scheme?

A quote from spence, then a non-applicable news blurb about a politician owing taxes, then a reference to John Kerry. Did you not take your Ritalin today? Because you seem to be having trouble actually creating a point that makes sense.

[spence]

Originally Posted by JohnnyD

What does this have to do with anything regarding SS being a Ponzi scheme?

A quote from spence, then a non-applicable news blurb about a politician owing taxes, then a reference to John Kerry. Did you not take your Ritalin today? Because you seem to be having trouble actually creating a point that makes sense.

It doesn't...just SW's lifelong running non sequitur.

Interestingly enough I sense there's a growing backlash of older Republicans who are getting sick of SS and Medicare being demonized as a "government handout" when they've paid into them their entire lives.

[justplugit]

Originally Posted by spence

Interestingly enough I sense there's a growing backlash of older Republicans who are getting sick of SS and Medicare being demonized as a "government handout" when they've paid into them their entire lives.

Why just older Repubs and not older Dems and Independents?

[scottw]

Originally Posted by JohnnyD

What does this have to do with anything regarding SS being a Ponzi scheme?

A quote from spence, then a non-applicable news blurb about a politician owing taxes, then a reference to John Kerry. Did you not take your Ritalin today? Because you seem to be having trouble actually creating a point that makes sense.

not a spending problem but a revenue problem
valuable social program...just pay your taxes
some of the most vehement supporters and defenders of the Ponzi scheme who would happily raise your taxes in order to perpetuate the scheme... don't pay their taxes...get it?

[spence]

Originally Posted by justplugit

Why just older Repubs and not older Dems and Independents?

Because they didn't feel guilty in the first place

-spence