Hey, Mom, Alan Simpson thinks you should go out and get a job

And here you have it, folks...the Republican view on Social Security:

Alan Simpson believes that Social Security is "like a milk cow with 310 million tits," according to an email he sent to the executive director of National Older Women's League Tuesday morning. Simpson co-chairs the deficit commission, which is considering various proposals to cut Social Security benefits.

Simpson's email, which OWL chief Ashley Carson released publicly, (PDF) was sent in response to an April blog post Carson wrote for the Huffington Post. Carson criticized Simpson for repeatedly describing his Social Security opponents as "Pink Panthers," arguing that the description had sexist connotations.

His email is peppered with exclamation points and condescension. At one point he urged Carson to read a certain graph, "which I hope you are able to discern if you are any good at reading graphs."

Simpson concludes by implying that leading a major organization dedicated to the interests of middle-aged and elderly women is not "honest work."

"If you have some better suggestions about how to stabilize Social Security instead of just babbling into the vapors, let me know," he writes. "And yes, I've made some plenty smart cracks about people on Social Security who milk it to the last degree. You know 'em too. It's the same with any system in America. We've reached a point now where it's like a milk cow with 310 million tits! Call when you get honest work!"

Yes, friends, this piece of human excrement, whom the supposedly socialist President personally appointed to head his deficit panel, would have my 83-year-old mother, who has COPD, to go out and get "honest work." My mother, who worked from the time she was eighteen until she was in her sixties -- and would have worked longer except that no one wanted to hire a 60=plus-year-old legal/medical secretary/office manager, is supposed to go out and get honest work. That's Alan Simpson's idea of what the elderly should do. I would ask Alan Simpson why HE doesn't go out and get an honest job instead of, well, sucking at the public teat, which he did for twenty-two years before going off to practice law -- that OTHER field that Republicans profess to hate even though they do it themselves.

It should be noted that in addition to income from his law practice, Alan Simpson receives a federal pension -- paid for by taxpayers.

UPDATE: Yes...what Eskow says.