It's Time to Show Alan Simpson, Vet Hater, the Door

• 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

David Culver, Evergreene Digest

Just who does this sadistic, uncaring, ignoramus Alan Simpson think he is? I can tell you right now, the guy’s starting to get on my nerves, to put it charitably.

I know he’s a former GOP senator from Wyoming, co-chairman of Obama's deficit commission, and an Army veteran who was once chairman of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee.  But who does he think he is?

His contention that “veterans are not helping to save the country from debt” is an unwarranted slap in the face to veterans, questioning as it does our right to be returned to wholeness.  It’s sadistic, unmerciful, ungrateful, and wrong-headed in its implications.

It may interest this uncaring ignoramus to know:

1.    that this nation has never even remotely come anywhere close to paying veterans fully for their service; (To suggest, therefore, that we’re part of the budgetary problem is beyond the pale.)
2.    that veterans have already bled several times for their country, psychologically, spiritually, physically, and are, therefore, under no obligation to give more; (The bills we’ve presented to this country for our service and care are fair and payable on demand.)
3.    that if a balanced budget (a ludicrous concept for a government anyway) is that important to him and his colleagues of twisted logic, then I suggest he propose to balance it, not on the backs of veterans (or social security recipients) but on the backs of a fairly taxed bloodthirsty oligarchy and their corporate friends in the arms business who are the only ones who have profited from the carnage Major General Smedley D. Butler, USMC, Retired, calls “a racket.”

There was a time not so long ago in this country when talking about veterans and their affairs in such a derogatory, ignorant manner would mean the immediate end of a person’s political career and, sometimes, an invitation to a private tar and feather party. (Mr. Simpson doesn’t know how lucky he really is. The very vets he dishonors with his vulgarity and stupidity were once in situations where they could shoot back!) That he is still in a position of power after making such incredulously stupid and insensitive remarks is a sad commentary on how far we’ve come in tolerating the public’s ever-increasing negative view of, and responsibility for, veterans and is a sad reflection of what President Obama’s opinion of veterans really is.

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! He’s already called social security recipients (I and a lot of my fellow veterans are SS recipients, too) suckers on cows’ teats, and now he’s blaming vets for part of the deficit problem. How much more negative behavior will he have to demonstrate before our public officials gets fed up with him?

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.

After all, this is a country of, by, and for the people, not the uncaring ignoramuses!

Related:

Alan Simpson Condemns Disabled Vets for Breathing Agent Orange, David Dayen, FireDogLake

• 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.