Fix the Debt CEOs and Wall Street banksters have created their own little protest movement. No, seriously. A "movement" of good old boys in the 1% club and whoever they can fool with their absurd campaign.
Alan Simpson wants you to think he is a champion of the youth. This group is still seeking to turn one generation against the other, as they have been doing for several years now. But they've now put the insanity on full display and have gone beyond the pale. Gangnam style. No, seriously.
Watch this video.
There really aren't any words for it, are there? In Felix Salmon's column they labeled it as "terrifying". I would have to agree, but a few other spontaneous descriptions came immediately to mind too.
Maybe there are words for it. A lot of people are much better with adjectives than I am. Help me in the comments to come up with some adjectives for these bastards.
The old coots who cleaned out the Treasury are the f'ing members of Congress who failed to prevent the spending trillions of dollars on failed and senseless, useless wars, who bailed out thieving, fraudulent Wall Street banks instead of the people of Main Street who paid into that Treasury for all of their lives.
The old coots who cleaned out the Treasury are the Wall Street criminals and the guy pathetically doing Gangnam style in this absurd video, and Pete Peterson, who is funding this whole fiscal cliff campaign, and all of their friends.
Trust us, they say to the youth while they fearmonger and attempt to turn them against older generations who have paid into Social Security and Medicare for decades. Just trust us, we'll take care of you.
So, how about some adjectives and other choice words for these old coots?
Also, don't forget to go weigh in with the thumbs thing at YouTube and leave old Alan a comment or two.
Updates
Some comments on the YouTube video:
Please tell me more about cool social media tools.
This video was paid for by billionaire Pete Peterson. It is not going to go viral because the concept of cutting social security, medicare and medicaid is not viral. The video is not viral because the concept of “broadening the base” by taxing more poor people is not viral.
The video is not viral because the concept of “pro-growth” tax cuts for the rich is not viral.
Trillions spent on over a decade of war. Thousands of dead Americans and her allies. Hundreds of thousands in Iraq. How much has the American public made in benefit from ALL of our taxes going to these wars?? War machine corporations have made huge money, while average Americans pay their lives away for the GREED, the war machine to make profit. FOCUS on the REAL problem
What did I just watch? Just wait until Tumblr makes gifs of this.
Sure cut student loans and colleges will stop jacking up tuition rates every semester. You're welcome.
Pretty sure what young people would LOVE is a real plan to lower unemployment and make college affordable again, instead of a lot of misleading talk about the national debt when the US can borrow at negative effective interest rates (and pandering about "cool social media tools.") Thanks.
Twitter
You can send them some tweets too at @TheCanKicksBack. They are sending things out to the media and getting some young people to tweet about how they are all in.
Third Way's Jon Cowan: Once Again, Ginning Up Faux Youth Outrage
Coming soon: a new pressure group called "The Can Kicks Back," which aims to turn younger Americans into an anti-deficit avenging army. It will surely attempt to play a role in the post-election talks surrounding the "fiscal cliff." This offensive bears a slight odor of deja vu, however, because one of its organizers is Jonathan Cowan, who 20 years ago attempted to recruit Gen Xers in a similar campaign propelled by a brash, ultimately buffoonish group called Lead ... Or Leave.
Today, Jon Cowan is the president of Third Way, which calls itself "the nation's leading centrist policy institution" and is certainly one of the most prominent center-right pressure groups in Washington. Its board of trustees reads like a Who's Who of Wall Street, hedge fund and real estate barons and it enjoys privileged access to the national media. (Cowan himself is a close personal friend and guru to Matt Bai, the New York Times Magazine's chief political correspondent and a leading cheerleader for center-right deficit hawks.)
Cowan popped up in a slightly different guise this summer, as an advisor to "The Can Kicks Back," billed as a new campaign by "Millennials ... pushing for a non-partisan 'grand bargain' to fix our fiscal future." Other advisors to the new group include such usual suspects as Erskine Bowles and former Sen. Alan Simpson (authors of the much-discussed Bowles-Simpson plan to balance the budget mostly through slashing Social Security, Medicare, and domestic social programs), former Sen. Evan Bayh, and former comptroller General David Walker.