From the Senate floor to the dance floor, former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson has some serious moves. In a recently posted video, the 81-year-old former fed danced to "Gangnam Style" in an attempt to get the millennial generation involved in debt reduction.
The video, posted on YouTube Tuesday afternoon, is a promotion for a grassroots movement called The Can Kicks Back. The organization's objective is to get millennials to sign a petition encouraging politicians to work across party lines to reduce the $16 trillion U.S. national debt.
"If we wanted to, we could create a grassroots movement overnight before Washington knew what hit it," the group's website reads. "We are 80 million Millennials. They are 536 politicians. We got this."
In the video, Simpson tells young people to "stop Instagramming your breakfast and tweeting your #firstworldproblems," before getting down with his bad self to the ultra-popular hip hop song by South Korean rapper PSY.
In 2010, President Obama chose Simpson and Erskine Bowles, former U.S. Chief of Staff under President Clinton, to co-chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, better known as "Simpson-Bowles."
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