Just Come Out & Say It GOP: Seniors Are The Problem
Not a day goes by that these ignoramuses on the Right are not belittling, mocking, blaming, accusing or slandering some group or another. They've been after seniors for decades. "Welfare for older people no longer in the work force" somehow galls them no end. Never mind that seniors were TAXED (no questions asked) for years to receive these benefits that assist them in retirement...and these self-same Republican policy makers enjoy THEIR benefits from our tax dollars. Minor detail.....
Do they think seniors just LOVE working thirty-to-forty years to be able to say WOW...now I can live in poverty?
Apparently Alan Simpson thinks so:
Former Sen. Alan Simpson is not happy with the California Alliance for Retired Americans.
In an April letter full of bad language, the pugnacious Wyoming Republican criticized the seniors group for a flyer that protested a deficit reduction plan from the task force he co-chaired with Clinton administration honcho Erskine Bowles.
"Your little flyer entitled 'Bowles! Simpson! Stop using the deficit as a phony excuse to gut our Social Security!' is one of the phoniest excuses for a 'flyer' I have ever seen," Simpson wrote on his official Senate stationery.
"What a wretched group of seniors you must be to use the faces of the very young people that we are trying to save, while the 'greedy geezers' like you use them as a tool and a front for your nefarious bunch of crap," Simpson continued. "You must feel some sense of shame for shoveling this bullshit."
And if that's not bad enough, you need to work to supplement this early "retirement"....mostly because your job has been shipped overseas, your boss closed up shop, you've been "downsized" (polite for "you're too old, and we can get someone with less experience for even less pay.") TRY GETTING A JOB OVER 50. PAST 60 YOU MIGHT AS WELL BE INVISIBLE. I personally know people who have been small business owners, college graduates (some with Masters degrees or more) who would LOVE a job at Lowes, Home Depot, or Big Lots....but they're not hired.
Yet, you still have those on the Right pushing this meme:
Baby Boomers Getting All the Jobs?
April 13, 2012
MarketWatch columnist Rex Nutting checks in on Mean Street and says that while job creation appears to be on the rise again in the U.S., a lot of those jobs seem to be going to folks in their 60s. Photo: AP Photo/Bob Leverone.
I don't know about you, but this is REALLY getting on my nerves. Changes need to be made in the "system" granted... but kicking people to the curb, and lying about it is despicable.For some reason these conservative Repubs remind me of the words to an old Bob Dylan song, done by Barry McGuire: "Hate your next-door-neighbor, but don't forget to say grace."
Have you always been an asshole or is this something new?
ReplyDeleteWell.......I'll probably NEVER reach the heights YOU have........
ReplyDeleteAnd when do we tell seniors maybe it's time to just take a pill and quit wasting resources? Answer-when we add everyone to Medicare and the "Secretary" will decide for you just like it states in the bill that was written by lobbyists that we had to pass in order to understand what is in it
ReplyDeletePlease take your nonsensical and untruthful comments to FOX and Friends site............they appreciate propaganda such as this.
DeleteI didn't hear that on FOX, I get all my information from MSNBC
DeleteWhatever.........
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