It's an insult to seniors for Alan Simpson to remain on the deficit commission.

[madfloridian]

And President Obama is not showing sensitivity by keeping him on as co-chairman.

"Bottom line: bon apetite, Grandma!

ALAN SIMPSON: We’re really working on solvency… the key is solvency

ALEX LAWSON: What about adequacy? Are you focusing on adequacy as well?

SIMPSON: Where do you come up with all the crap you come up with?

SIMPSON: We’re trying to take care of the lesser people in society and do that in a way without getting into all the flash words you love dig up, like cutting Social Security, which is bullshit. We’re not cutting anything, we’re trying to make it solvent.

SIMPSON: It’ll go broke in the year 2037.

LAWSON: What do you mean by ‘broke’? Do you mean the surplus will go out and then it will only be able to pay 75% of its benefits?

SIMPSON: Just listen, will you listen to me instead of babbling? In the year 2037, instead of getting 100% of your check, you are going to get about 75% of your check. That’s if you touch nothing. If you like that, fine. You’ll be picking with the chickens yourself when you’re 65.

So we want to take care, we’re not cutting, we’re not balancing the budget on the backs of senior citizens. That’s bullshit. So you’ve got that one down. So as long as you’ve got those two things down, you can’t play with anymore, that we’re not balancing the budget of the United States on the backs of poor old seniors and we’re not cutting anything, we’re stabilizing the system.

LAWSON: Thanks for being so frank. My question is: raising the retirement age, is actually an across-the-board benefit cut?"

http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2010/06/17/alan-simpson-cutting-social-security-benefits-to-take-care-of-the-lesser-people-in-society/

And more:

http://ara.typepad.com/blog/2010/03/alan-simpson-strikes-at-seniors-social-security-and-medicare.html

"Alan Simpson Strikes at Seniors, Social Security, and Medicare

Former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson sat down with the CNBC television network last week to discuss his post as co-chair of the President’s Fiscal Commission on the national debt. Throughout the conversation, he leveled several attacks against seniors and senior advocacy organizations, accusing them of not caring “a whit about their grandchildren…not a whit.”

When asked about cuts he would recommend to the President and Congress, he replied, “We are going to stick to the big three,” meaning, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Watch the interview below.

Alliance President Barbara Easterling said, "Alan Simpson’s prior record in the Senate has proven his determination to cut Medicare and Social Security. His appointment has caused widespread alarm among seniors, veterans, and disabled Americans, who increasingly rely on these programs during the economic downturn.”

[madfloridian]

1. It is telling us we don't matter enough to be shown respect.

And I am very angry about it.

[suffragette]

9. You're not alone

:grr:

[katandmoon]

2. Obama never runs out of ways to display his contempt for us

[Skittles]

3. it's actually an insult to all decent Americans

[madfloridian]

4. True. Make Alan Simpson "accountable".

Just like they are holding all teachers accountable.

[msongs]

5. change we can believe in wink wink nt

[tsuki]

6. As someone who has sucked long and hard off the public tit his entire

life, he is hypocrisy personified.

[Cerridwen]

7. "Logan's Run" eom

[global1]

8. Call The White House And Make More Noise, Don't Let This Die......

this guy needs to resign or be fired from this commission. The White House number is: 1-202-456-1111.

I don't know why in the first place he was picked for this commission by Obama. Unless the fix is in.

Simpson must go. Call the White House and protest.

[Robeson]

10. It was an insult when he was put on the panel...

... Alan Simpson? Can we quit kidding ourselves here. Alan Simpson????

[rve300]

11. The insult was the creation of a debt commission.

nm

[Jefferson23]

12. No doubt he is an insulting swine, but it's his ideas and influence

that are the most disturbing imo. Simpson has a long history going back a long time and Obama is well aware of it.

My beef is with Obama, Simpson is doing what he was appointed to do.

From 1995, Ron Wyden took on Simpson to defend AARP, ya know, what Democrats would normally do...now they appoint them.

I am disgusted by what I see and no, I admit I never saw this one coming..not at all!

Eugene Register-Guard - May 4, 1995Browse this newspaper

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1310&dat=19950504&id=lnEVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7OoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6770,556230

[Jefferson23]

13. Kick n/t