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Alan Simpson Condemns Disabled Vets for Breathing Agent Orange

Fri, 09/03/2010 - 09:37 — Dave Culver
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Peace & Nonviolence
  • Maybe if Simpson and the ruling class weren’t so damned bloodthirsty, we wouldn’t have choices like this to make.
  • Veterans Group Calls for Removal of Alan Simpson
  • Show Alan Simpson, Vet Hater, the Door

David Dayen, FireDogLake

Alan Simpson’s scorn for people who use federal money goes beyond… well, everyone, in the form of Social Security. He also doesn’t like it when Vietnam-era soldiers breathed Agent Orange and put their greedy little hands out to cough into them because they had respiratory trouble the rest of their lives.

The system that automatically awards disability benefits to some veterans because of concerns about Agent Orange seems contrary to efforts to control federal spending, the Republican co-chairman of President Barack Obama’s deficit commission said Tuesday (Aug 31).

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Veterans Group Calls for Removal of Alan Simpson,  David Dayen, FireDogLake

  • It’s a fact of American life that veterans are seen as inviolate, and criticisms of veterans approaching treason.
  • It’s one thing for Alan Simpson to call Social Security recipients greedy bastards, even though a chunk of them, a substantial chunk (almost half), includes military veterans. It’s quite another thing for him to go after veterans directly, as he did in denouncing disabled vets for luckily sucking up health care resources after exposure to Agent Orange.

It's Time to Show Alan Simpson, Vet Hater, the Door, David Culver, Evergreene Digest

  • I call on the Congress and President to show Alan Simpson to the door of the deficit commission’s deliberations and to restore honor and decency to our national conversation on veterans!
  • I also call on my fellow citizens to hold their President, Congressional Representatives, and Senators accountable for removing Mr. Simpson by contacting them and reminding them that their oath of office demands meeting this country’s obligations to its veterans.
  • Alan Simpson Condemns Disabled Vets for Breathing Agent Orange
  • Veterans Group Calls for Removal of Alan Simpson

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