Alan: Snopes rates the veracity of the following Simpson-Citizen "exchange" as a "mixed bag." http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/simpson.asp
Whether or not the exchange is literally true, it does embody "legendary meaning" which is often more helpful for purposes of understanding "principles" than accurately determined historical truth.
That said, it is also important -- indispensably important -- to identify legend as legend and historical-fact as historical fact.
Such distinctions fall under the heuristic of epistemology which is the crucial discipline of determining "how we know" what "we think we know."
"The Death of Epistemology"
"The Death of Epistemology"
How the death of epistemology validates rhetorical vapidity:
The Guardian: "John Oliver's Viral Video Is The Best Global Warming Debate You'll Ever See"
Alan Simpson ruffles the feathers of Montana granny Patty Myers
How the death of epistemology validates rhetorical vapidity:
The Guardian: "John Oliver's Viral Video Is The Best Global Warming Debate You'll Ever See"
Alan Simpson ruffles the feathers of Montana granny Patty Myers
Think she is PISSED??
Check this out:Alan Simpson, the Senator from Wyoming, 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 from Montana.....think she is a little ticked off! She 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 (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 losers in return for votes, thus bankrupting the system and turning Social Security into a Ponzi scheme that would make Bernie Madoff proud, when it was actually intended to be a pre-paid Pension.
4. Recently, just like Lucy and 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" propose to change the rules of the game. Why? Because "you" 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 "incompetents" 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 debts.
7.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:
a. How much money have you earned from the American taxpayers during your pathetic 50-year political career?
b. 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?
c. How much do you pay for YOUR government provided health insurance?
d. 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 thieves who have bankrupted America and stolen the American dream from millions of loyal, patriotic taxpayers. And, for what? Votes, your job and retirement security at our expense, you leech. That's right, sir. You and yours have bankrupted America for the sole purpose of advancing your 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.
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 by doling out these monthly checks that we paid into the Trust Fund all our working lives.
P.S. And stop calling Social Security benefits "entitlements". WHAT AN INSULT!!!! EVERYONE!!!
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.(Simple solutions like reducing benefits to those with large incomes, and raising the income cap to tax higher income taxpayers can change all this for the better.)
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Senate Committee: Small Tweaks Will Guarantee Social Security's Future Finances
"The Future Financial Status of the Social Security Program"
Source: The Social Security Administration
Excerpt: As a result of changes to Social Security enacted in 1983, benefits are now expected to be payable in full on a timely basis until 2037, when the trust fund reserves are projected to become exhausted.1 At the point where the reserves are used up, continuing taxes are expected to be enough to pay 76 percent of scheduled benefits. Thus, the Congress will need to make changes to the scheduled benefits and revenue sources for the program in the future.
The Social Security Board of Trustees project that changes equivalent to an immediate reduction in benefits of about 13 percent, or an immediate increase in the combined payroll tax rate from 12.4 percent to 14.4 percent, or some combination of these changes, would be sufficient to allow full payment of the scheduled benefits for the next 75 years.
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