Former Senator Simpson Blasts Critics as “Jerks”

Any fiscal plan that fails to tackle military spending, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security is “a sparrow’s belch in the midst of a typhoon,” former Senator Alan Simpson, chairman of a presidential deficit-reduction commission said in an interview aired on Sunday. Simpson, Republican co-chair of the NCFRR, also trashed certain critics as “jerks” and compared the U.S. to “a milk cow with 300 million teats.”  – Reuters