<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Rachel<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Binah <<a href="mailto:rachel@mcn.org">rachel@mcn.org</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">December 27, 2012 9:31:46 AM PST</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Linda Jupiter <<a href="mailto:jupiter@mcn.org">jupiter@mcn.org</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>More on Social Security</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"><b>Please send this to the Occupy list. It continues the discussion.</b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"><b>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"><b><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">Alan Simpson, the retired Senator from Wyoming calls senior citizens the Greediest Generation as he compared "Social Security " to a Milk Cow with 310 million teats.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#0037ff" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; color: #0037ff">Here's a response in a letter from PATTY MYERS in Montana ... I think she is a little ticked off! She also tells it like it is!</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">"Hey Alan, let's get a few things straight!!!!!</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">1. As a career politician, you have been on the public dole (tit) for FIFTY YEARS.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">2. I have been paying Social Security taxes for 48 YEARS (since I was 15 years old. I am now 63).</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">3. My Social Security payments, and those of millions of other Americans, were safely tucked away in an interest bearing account for decades until you political pukes decided to raid the account and give OUR money to a bunch of zero losers in return for votes, thus bankrupting the system and turning Social Security into a Ponzi scheme that would make Bernie Madoff proud.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">4. Recently, just like Lucy & Charlie Brown, you and "your ilk" pulled the proverbial football away</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">from millions of American seniors nearing retirement and moved the goalposts for full retirement from age 65 to age, 67. NOW, you and your "shill commission" are proposing to move the goalposts YET AGAIN.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">5. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying into Medicare from Day One, and now "you morons" propose to change the rules of the game. Why? Because "you idiots" mismanaged other parts of the economy to such an extent that you need to steal our money from Medicare to pay the bills.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">6. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying income taxes our entire lives, and now you propose to increase our taxes yet again. Why? Because you "incompetent bastards" spent our money so profligately that you just kept on spending even after you ran out of money. Now, you come to the American taxpayers and say you need more to pay off YOUR debt.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">To add insult to injury, you label us "greedy" for calling "bullshit" to your incompetence. Well, Captain Bullshit, I have a few questions for YOU:</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">1. How much money have you earned from the American taxpayers during your pathetic 50-year political career?</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">2. At what age did you retire from your pathetic political career, and how much are you receiving in annual retirement benefits from the American taxpayers?</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">3. How much do you pay for YOUR government provided health insurance?</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">4. What cuts in YOUR retirement and healthcare benefits are you proposing in your disgusting deficit reduction proposal, or as usual, have you exempted yourself and your political cronies?</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">It is you, Captain Bullshit, and your political co-conspirators called Congress who are the "greedy" ones. It is you and your fellow nutcase thieves who have bankrupted America and stolen the American dream from millions of loyal, patriotic taxpayers.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">And for what? Votes and your job and retirement security at our expense, you lunk-headed, leech.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">That's right, sir. You and yours have bankrupted America for the sole purpose of advancing your pathetic, political careers. You know it, we know it, and you know that we know it.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">And you can take that to the bank, you miserable son of a bitch. NO, I did not stutter.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">EVERYONE!!!</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">If you like the way things are in America delete this.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">If you agree with what a Montana citizen, Patty Myers, says, please PASS IT ON!!!!</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 15px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Georgia; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">P.S. And stop calling Social Security benefits "entitlements". WHAT AN INSULT!!!!</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">I have been paying in to the SS system for 45 years of my money & give it back to me the way the system was designed and stop patting yourself on the back like you are being generous by doling out these monthly checks!</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Arial"> </font></p> </div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>