WTF!?! Alan Simpson tells the Truth?
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That's how you pass or kill something in this country, you use emotion, fear, guilt or racism, and I've been in them all – I did immigration, nuclear, Social Security, ageing – I learned where the long knives are.
And as long as people are buffaloed by that, and fogged by that on the basis of protecting their hide from any peril, as H.L. Mencken once said, we're in deep trouble...............
STEVE: Do you think that it is possible, however you figure out the numbers, to balance the budget or move it close to balance while preserving what we call the social safety net that has grown up in this country across many decades?
SIMPSON: Heating. That Leap group.
STEVE: LIHEAP.
SIMPSON: Yup, that's a critically important thing. That shouldn't even be touched.
You don't need to touch that,
you need to go get rid of 250,000 contractors in the Defense Department where you can really pick up some small change...................
MORE:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2011/02/16/133801977/alan-simpson-cut-entitlements-defense-dont-touch-help-to-poor