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Alan Simpson: “Stop Instagramming your breakfast and tweeting your first world problems and getting on YouTube so you can see ‘Gangnam…”

On the recordDecember 31, 2011
Stop Instagramming your breakfast and tweeting your first world problems and getting on YouTube so you can see ‘Gangnam Style.’
Said by
Alan Simpson
Wyoming
Source
cnn.com

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Simpson urged young people to focus on serious issues like national debt.

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