Firedoglake takes on Simpson: Alan Simpson: Cutting Social Security Benefits to “Take Care of the Lesser People in Society” …cuts he would recommend to the President and Congress on CNBC,…

I have no words for this e-mail to OWL by Alan Simpson on Social Security: I’ve made some plenty smart cracks about people on Social Security who milk it to…

Daily Kos: Simpson to disabled vets: You cost too much Joan McCarter: Fresh off of being forgiven by the White House, Simpson has a new target. :RALEIGH, N.C.—The system that…

Op-ed by Rdan The problem with Simpson’s statement about 300 million tits was not that it was sexist. The problem with Simpson’s statement was that it was wrong as to…

…cost overruns and redundant weapons system,” the source told TPM. “Cote made excuses for it all.” According to the source, Cote and other members, including the commission’s co-chair Alan Simpson,…

…the clamor about the Bowles-Simpson road map to conquering the deficit–depicted as a reasonable, middle-of-the-road approach. Bowles-Simpson is a neo-liberal/neo-conservative group of people with little understanding of the predicament of…

…de-pantsing of Commission co-Chairman Alan Simpson in the course of an 8 minute video interview outside the (closed) doors of the Commission by Social Security Works Communications Director Alex Lawson….

…they can reasonably be expected to work at into their late 60s? Dean Baker takes Al to school. And then to the woodshed out back. Senator Simpson’s Quick Budget Quiz…

by Bruce Webb On Thursday I put up an extract from a SSA Office of the Actuary score of one of two of the Simpson-Bowles draft Social Security plans, that…

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