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Protecting Social Security Wrapup
October, 2010--The President's National Commission on Fiscal
Responsibility and Reform, looking for ways
to balance the federal budget, met for the
fifth time on Wednesday, but hard decisions
are not expected until after the November 2
elections.
Social Security is one of several areas being
considered by the panel for changes, and
picketers outside the meeting demanded the
commission keep its hands off the program.
A top target of protesters was Alan Simpson,
the former Republican senator and now a
co-chairman of the commission, who this
summer described Social Security as "a milk
cow with 310 million tits."
The National Organization for Women (NOW) has a
new slogan: "Tits for an Ass," and NOW
members arrived on Capitol Hill on Wednesday
with 1,500 rubber baby bottle tops (nipples)
and presented them to the Fiscal Commission
as part of its campaign calling for the
removal of Simpson.
According to The Washington Post, NOW
President Terry O'Neill told Simpson that
she was giving him the nipples "in hopes
that you'll have the decency to resign from
the commission." When Simpson said that
cutting Social Security had historically
never happened, O'Neill responded, "Well
let's hope that your efforts to make it
happen now fail."