Alan Simpson must go

Alan Simpson, the co-chair who should never have been appointed to the deficit reduction commission that should never have been established, should resign now or be fired forthwith by the President who appointed him.

Simpson has written his own ticket:
By calling Social Security “a milk cow with 310 million tits.”
By insulting a distinguished woman, Executive Director Ashley Carson of OWL, the Older Women’s League, accusing her of “babbling into the vapors” and inviting her to “call when you get honest work.”
By calling Americans who rely on Social Security “greedy geezers” and “lesser people.”

If there is a “lesser person” in America, it is Alan Simpson.

Ashley Carson speaks for us when she says: “This kind of blatant disrespect for women, and for the social fabric of our country, has no place in a serious discussion about the deficit.”

And OWL speaks for us when it declares:
“Mr. Simpson’s fifteen minutes of sexism and degradation are over. Now is the time for serious people to have serious conversations about how to move our nation forward, protecting the men and women who have worked their whole lives to make this country great.”

Simpson should resign or be fired forthwith by the President. He should also be publicly repudiated by Commission Co-Chair Erskine Bowles and by the full commission.

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