Simpson: Social security is 'a milk cow with 310 million tits'

Former US Senator Alan Simpson, co-chair on the Obama administration’s deficit commission, sent a scathing email to the executive director of National Older Women’s League recently, saying social security is “like a milk cow with 310 million tits."

Alan Simpson, former Republican Senator from Wyoming - in an email sent to Ashley Carson, executive director of National Older Women’s League (OWL) - has referred to America’s social security system as “a milk cow with 310 million tits.” Carson has made public the email she received on Tuesday from the the former GOP senator, an email laced with condescending and snide comments. His email is in response to an April blog on Huffington Post in which Carson was critical of Simpson referring to Social Security proponents as Pink Panthers. In the blog she asks “Is this some disgusting attempt at ageism and sexism in one cutesy alliterative quip?” Simpson, the current co-chair on the National Commission of Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, suggested in the email that Carson read a certain graph “which I hope you are able to discern if you are any good at reading graphs.” He concluded his diatribe in the email by suggesting being executive director of a major organization dedicated to issues for midlife and older women is not “honest work.” “If you have some better suggestions about how to stabilize Social Security instead of just babbling into the vapors, let me know. And yes, I’ve made some plenty smart cracks about people on Social Security who milk it to the last degree. You know ‘em too. It’s the same with any system in America. We’ve reached a point now where it’s like a milk cow with 310 million tits! Call when you get honest work!” Simpson’s condemnation continues an ongoing method of unsettled behavior threatening to cripple the commission’s work. In June, he lashed out at a Social Security advocate who caught on video the co-chair’s tirade outside a closed-door commission meeting. OWL has set up an online petition calling for Simpson’s resignation as well as sending a letter to President Barack Obama calling for the co-chair’s resignation because of “his clear disrespect for Social Security, women and the American people, highlighted by his degrading, sexist, ageist and profane language.”