Note from Cletis. I didn't write this but I wish I had. Former U. S. Senator, Wyoming's Alan Simpson, is applying tough love in his effort to whittle down spending and recently called our nation's seniors, "The Greediest Generation", for daring to think they could retire while still able to leave the house without a ready supply of Depends. Anyway, here's a little piece making its way through cyberspace. From a man in Montana....who - like the rest of us - has just about had enough.
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 Secutity 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…
To add insult to injury, you label us “greedy” for calling “bullshit” on 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 health care 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 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.
Cletis Again: If I didn't know better, I'd swear this was written by our own Daniel Berry. I wonder if Daniel has a twin in Montana.
1. As a career politician, you have been on the public dole for FIFTY YEARS…
2. I have been paying Social Secutity 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…
To add insult to injury, you label us “greedy” for calling “bullshit” on 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 health care 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 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.
Cletis Again: If I didn't know better, I'd swear this was written by our own Daniel Berry. I wonder if Daniel has a twin in Montana.
5 comments:
Annomously written but so aptly stated! Here-Here. Glen Sievert.
The next step will be to cut spending and the Republicans and Democrats in Congress will focus on earned entitlements such as social security, medicaid, medicare and military health benefits. Obama has already said he favors a 1.4% pay increase for the military. This is the lowest pay raise in almost 50 years and is a strange thanks for those who have been fighting our wars for ten years. This really adds up to a tax increase for the middle class and our most needy.
All of this while big business and the most wealthy receive huge tax cuts ostensibly to stimulate the economy and earn more for investors. Job creation will be very uncertain.
This is another victory for the Republicans and Democrats who are willing to borrow from the future of the elderly, our kids and grandkids to continue the unnecessary wars and support the most wealthy Americans.
In addition the leaders of the president's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform proposed substantial increases in TRICARE fees for military retirees under age 65- to the tune of $1000 to $2000 a year for typical families. The commission report recommended even bigger financial hits for Medicare eligilble military retirees and their spouses. Known as TRICARE For Life (TFL) cutbacks of as much as $6000 a year or more per couple. That is in addition to the extra costs they and all other TRICARE users would incur from proposed TRICARE pharmacy hikes.
Ironically, the whole reason Congress authorized TFL in 2001 was to recognize that those who had served and sacrificed for 20 years or more in uniform deserved a benefit significantlygreater than that available to those who didn't incur such sacrifices for their country.
Now, after nine years of war, some national leaders think those decades of sacrifice were not worth that much. What is worse is they propose a double "whammy" for the nation's most severely wounded warriors. Any wounded or injured servicemember accorded a 30 percent or greater disability rating is medically retired and subject to the same proposed TRICARE fee hikes as other retirees under age 65.
Those who are most severly injured are deemed Medicare-eligible and are required to pay Medicare Part B prmiums to be eligible for TFL as a second payer. Those with families would be double penalized by these proposals, because they would be required to pay all of the increased costs for TRICARE and TFL.
This is grossly unfair to those who served and sacrificed for decades in uniform and those who suffered grievous injuries in the course of that service. It is a sad proposal that reserves its lowest blow for America's greatest heroes.
Harold Trainer, Prospect, KY
Alan Simpson makes little attempt to hide his disdain for average Americans. Yet, while other politicians are more careful in their language, most of them are also trying to extract the last remaining wealth from working Americans to benefit the wealthy. We seem to have entered an end phase where the New Deal is finally dismantled for good.
The next step will be to cut spending and the Republicans and Democrats in Congress will focus on earned entitlements such as social security, medicaid, medicare and military health benefits. Obama has already said he favors a 1.4% pay increase for the military. This is the lowest pay raise in almost 50 years and is a strange thanks for those who have been fighting our wars for ten years. This really adds up to a tax increase for the middle class and our most needy.
All of this while big business and the most wealthy receive huge tax cuts ostensibly to stimulate the economy and earn more for investors. Job creation will be very uncertain.
This is another victory for the Republicans and Democrats who are willing to borrow from the future of the elderly, our kids and grandkids to continue the unnecessary wars and support the most wealthy Americans.
In addition the leaders of the president's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform proposed substantial increases in TRICARE fees for military retirees under age 65- to the tune of $1000 to $2000 a year for typical families. The commission report recommended even bigger financial hits for Medicare eligilble military retirees and their spouses. Known as TRICARE For Life (TFL) cutbacks of as much as $6000 a year or more per couple. That is in addition to the extra costs they and all other TRICARE users would incur from proposed TRICARE pharmacy hikes.
Ironically, the whole reason Congress authorized TFL in 2001 was to recognize that those who had served and sacrificed for 20 years or more in uniform deserved a benefit significantlygreater than that available to those who didn't incur such sacrifices for their country.
Now, after nine years of war, some national leaders think those decades of sacrifice were not worth that much. What is worse is they propose a double "whammy" for the nation's most severely wounded warriors. Any wounded or injured servicemember accorded a 30 percent or greater disability rating is medically retired and subject to the same proposed TRICARE fee hikes as other retirees under age 65.
Those who are most severly injured are deemed Medicare-eligible and are required to pay Medicare Part B prmiums to be eligible for TFL as a second payer. Those with families would be double penalized by these proposals, because they would be required to pay all of the increased costs for TRICARE and TFL.
This is grossly unfair to those who served and sacrificed for decades in uniform and those who suffered grievous injuries in the course of that service. It is a sad proposal that reserves its lowest blow for America's greatest heroes.
Harold Trainer, Prospect, KY
Though from a military family, I humbly dissent from the idea that our soldiers post obligatoty draft deserve more subsidies/advantages than other workers. A volunteer army, an anti-republican concept, is NOT a patriotic army. The word "soldier" comes from the latin "solde", i.e. payment for services rendered. As in mercenary...
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