I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

Could be me....

Jackie

Pip, I wonder perhaps the age of your sister. Did she experience the trauma and devastation of having a President assassinated? It is not something to joke about. It was horrific for this whole country and I hope it never happens again. The act of assassination reveals the painful knowledge that as a society we are still beholden to the lowest common denominator regardless of how much intellectual and technical progress we make.

I did not fact check this but it sure seems like an interesting take on entitlements.........Mr. Scalia

osted June, 2012

I THINK SHE IS BIG TIME TICKED OFF!
(Not my foul language)

I don't think TICKED OFF really covers it!!!!

Alan Simpson, Republican Senator from Wyoming and co-chair of President Obama's deficit commission, calls senior citizens the "Greediest Generation" as he compared Social Security to a Milk Cow with 310 million teats.

Here's a response in a letter from Patty Myers, a career school teacher in Montana ... I think she is a little ticked off! She also tells it like it is!

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

by Patty Myers

1. As a career politician, you have been on the public dole (tit) 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 losers in return for votes, thus bankrupting the system and turning Social Security into a Ponzi scheme that would make 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" are 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 our 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.

To add insult to injury, you label us "greedy" for calling "bullshit" to your incompetence. Well, Captain Bullshit, 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 Bullshit, and your political co-conspirators called Congress who are the "greedy" ones. It is you and your fellow nutcase thieves who have bankrupted America and stolen the American dream from millions of loyal, patriotic taxpayers. And for what? Votes and your job and retirement security at our expense, you lunk-headed leech.

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. NO, I did not stutter.

If you like the way things are in America delete this. If you agree with what a Montana citizen Patty Myers says, please PASS IT ON!!!!

P.S.

And stop calling Social Security benefits "entitlements" WHAT AN INSULT!!!!

I have been paying in to the SS system for 45 years. It's my money; give it back to me the way the system was designed and stop patting yourself on the back like you are being generous to be dolling out these monthly checks.

Jackie, loving your posts!

I remember that Patti Myers letter. After it hit the Internet there was a lot of discussion that the author is actually unknown and some of the facts are a bit off.



Anyway here's the Snopes link:



http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/simpson.asp

The SS fund wasn't raided.  I don't know how that rumor got started, but it just isn't true.  Check the financial statements.

No one asks questions like Paul Kriguman:

Consider the case of Florida, whose governor, Rick Scott, made his personal fortune in the health industry. At one point, by the way, the company he built pleaded guilty to criminal charges, and paid $1.7 billion in fines related to Medicare fraud. Anyway, Mr. Scott got elected as a fierce opponent of Obamacare, and Florida participated in the suit asking the Supreme Court to declare the whole plan unconstitutional. Nonetheless, Mr. Scott recently shocked Tea Party activists by announcing his support for the Medicaid expansion.

But his support came with a condition: he was willing to cover more of the uninsured only after receiving a waiver that would let him run Medicaid through private insurance companies. Now, why would he want to do that?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/04/opinion/krugman-mooching-off-medicare.html?src=recg

True - the SS money has not been raided. That is, the funds have been used for other things, but the allocation is there and the US has promised to make good on it- a longstanding and heretofore never problematic characteristic in many national budgets.

I scoffed at the idea years back of the SS fund being raided.....but with the GOP willing to let the US lapse on its debt obligations, I wonder now if they'd be happy to also let the US break its promise to its own citizens.

E - LOVE your cow metaphors, farm girl!

I think we need peole like Patty Meyers.  Probably keeps us on our toes while our elected officials tip-toe and sometimes totally stomp through "politics".  I read some statistics ( of course I didn't save them, that would be too sane and easy ) on how much people like Boehner get paid to do so little and how much more vacation time he and his ilk have ( not even talking about the long term benefits ) than the Pres.  Too many of Boehner's group at this point seem a great waste of office space. 

Jackie

Athena - LOVE the first dress..makes me wanna get out my monotype printing.  really like it.  AND MEANT to ask you, asny news on the job, or did I miss that post...not on as often as I used to be.

Blue - hpeyou're feeling better - love the animal pics...

Jackie - think the Snopes agrees it's a "mixture" of voices, but sure agree with the sentiments expressed.  Also making me more & MORE in support of TERM LIMITS for all member of congress.