WASHINGTON -- Former U.S. Senator and co-chairman of President Barack Obama's deficit commission Alan Simpson told an audience Tuesday that politicians talk too much about the poor and vulnerable for political gain, and that he regrets the way interest groups have used the commission's recommendations to appeal to their members.
"Could you please cut out the babble? Would you quit talking about the poor, the vulnerable, the veterans, the old ladies going over cliffs, the hospices, the bedpans? I mean, what the hell? We all know, all of us know, that that's the people you want to take care of," Simpson said at the event, which was moderated by George Washington University's Frank Sesno and sponsored by Face the Facts USA.
Simpson shared the stage with Jared Bernstein, former chief economic adviser to Vice President Joe Biden.
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