Say What?

"It's like a milk cow with 310 million tits."
-- Deficit Commission co-chair Alan Simpson on Social Security

I guess he forgot that the vast majority of those people worked their whole lives and paid into the system. It particularly disgusts me considering that my father worked and paid into the system until he passed away at 60 and thus will never see a dime of that money. My mother, who was a stay-at-home mom and never paid into the system, will receive about half of my father's projected payments in survivor's benefits. The very thought that the bourgeois of Washington D.C. would endanger that well deserved check has me considering the benefits of the guillotine and I don't even support capital punishment.