Alan Simpson Slams 'Hypocrite' Companies For Making Billions While Opposing $15 Min. Wage

[LiberalArkie]

Former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson (R-WY) called out wealthy companies and conservative leaders as hypocrites over the weekend for refusing to support a $15 minimum wage even though corporations showed billions in profits each year.

Speaking to KULR in an interview that aired on Sunday, Simpson said that he had learned from visiting college campuses that young Americans were not interested in voting on traditional Republican social issues like abortion and same-sex marriage.

"They're very serious people and they don't care about the social issues," he noted. "Gay-lesbian issues are not even on their screen, and they're very accepting of others, which is great, I think."

According to Simpson, young people saw abortion as a "deeply intimate and person decision."

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http://crooksandliars.com/2015/11/alan-simpson-slams-hypocrite-companies

[valerief]

1. You Republicans paved the way for them. And still do. nt

[Sherman A1]

2. Agreed

but, he may have seen something resembling the light....

[LiberalArkie]

4. They are even waking up to what they have created.

[valerief]

5. But still benefiting, too.

[LiberalArkie]

6. They are always going to benefit, I think Simpson NOW thinks they benefit too much.

He has changed a little since the "cat food commission" days.

[tecelote]

3. K&R

This republican sounds so liberal.

Shows how far off course we have gone. So far to the right that older republicans are more liberal than 3rd way democrats.

[Ed Suspicious]

10. Isn't that crazy? He sounds more liberal than what passes for liberal today. We've come a long way

have we not?

[think]

7. Wow. That was a shocker of an interview...

[DhhD]

11. These young people are not going to be able to generate enough tax money to keep Rethugs

in their current lifestyle. He knows the wealthy have gone to far. College students will be unable to buy a home and keep a new a car in order to get to work. The median age of cars on American highways today is; get ready, 2003 models. So the car companies must be selling a few cars at high prices which was the business model of Wall Street, that Henry Ford knew was not sustainable in the early 1900s.

[Enthusiast]

8. My guess is this creep still favors slashing Social Security.

Considering the wasteful level of military spending, safety net cuts should not even be discussed.

[Enrique]

13. of course

what he doesn't tell you, and which he knows perfectly well, is the reasons his GOP has played up the social issues. It's because there is very little support for their real agenda, primarily killing entitlements.

[TrollBuster9090]

9. Yeah, I have mixed feelings about Grampa Simpson. This is one of his GOOD interviews,

Others are more of the "old man yells at cloud" variety. Especially when he jumped on the bandwagon of cutting Social Security. The interview below is one of his WORST moments. Where the interviewer points out that the SS Trust Fund is solvent (and it would certainly be more solvent if we removed the cap), and he starts blathering about "there is nothing in there but a bunch-a IOUs!" Well FUCK YOU, Allan! There's nothing in a BANK but a bunch-a IOUs, and nobody suggests that the bank is broke. It's not broke unless you don't plan on COLLECTING the IOUs, or didn't take them seriously when you let people write them. So, the conservative plan has apparently been to loan out all the money in the SS Trust Fund, and then claim that it's 'broke' because there is no CASH in there, and then use that as an excuse for abolishing it, and simply writing off the IOUs. The USA has an 18 Trilliion dollar debt, and about 5 Trillion of it is the money that was loaned out from the SS Trust Fund. Beware of assholes who start advocating writing off some of that debt by 'admitting' that the SS Trust Fund has no money in it.





My favorite Simpson line: "So, the government gets a 'double whammy,' what's the word for that?" Er...the word is 'BULLSHIT!' You should know, you practically INVENTED the word.

[JDPriestly]

12. Almost sounds like a Bernie voter.

How did he ever run as a Republican?

He used to be so conservative it was disgusting.

Does he have grandkids? They have a way of touching their grandparents' hearst.

He sounds like a he has been born again as a Democrat.

Wow! I am astounded. He used to be the worst of the worst, especially about Social Security. I think he is now beginning to understand why Social Security is more important now than ever.