The ‘Geezers’ Are Right This Time

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BY FROMA HARROP Alan Simpson let loose at a group of Californians who charged in a brochure that he and Erskine Bowles were “using the deficit to gut our Social Security.” The former Republican senator from Wyoming sent the California Association of Retired Americans a characteristically colorful response, which I quote: “What a wretched group of seniors you must be to use the faces of the very people [the young] that we are trying to […]

Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton became editor of The Observer in September 2006. Previously, he served nearly two decades as the Dallas Morning News’ Oklahoma Bureau chief. He also covered government and politics for the San Jose Mercury News, the Dallas Times Herald, the Tulsa Tribune and the Oklahoma Journal.