Alan Simpson: Give Deficit Fairytales the 'Green Weenie'

Alan Simpson, the deficit commission co-chair famous for ever-so-subtly calling Social Security "a milk cow with 310 million tits," was back on the teevee today calling for serious cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, the aforementioned milk cow, and defense, reports the Huffington Post. Some highlights from his comments:

• "We're going to get rid of all earmarks, all waste, fraud, and abuse, all foreign aid, Air Force One, all congressional pensions. That's just sparrow belch in the midst of the typhoon."

• "So, I'm waiting for the politician to get up and say, there's only one way to do this: You dig into the big four, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and defense. And anybody giving you anything different than that, you want to walk out the door, stick your finger down your throat, and give them the green weenie."
• To the "jerks" who say his panel wanted to privatize Social Security: "We never suggested that. We're talking about doing a hideous thing to change the retirement age to 68, by the year 2050, and hear people howl and bitch about that."
• "This is the first war, in our history, where we never had a tax to support a war, including the Revolution. And nobody has sacrificed in this country, nobody, except the people in the military. And, in our report, we use words like sacrifice, self-sacrifice. We use words like going broke. And it's written in English. It's written for the American people."

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