DNC Chair Wasserman Schultz: GOP Budget Plan Kills Seniors
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, April 14, 2011, 5:53 AM
Apparently, Alan Grayson was not available when the DNC chose Wasserman Schultz to lead the party.
DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz told CNN viewers last night that the GOP budget plan will kill the elderly.
The Hill reported:
Republicans’ budget plan would put seniors’ lives at risk, the incoming chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) said Thursday.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Florida congresswoman tapped by President Obama to lead the DNC, said she stood by her characterization of Republicans’ 2012 budget as a “death trap” for seniors.
When pressed on whether she intended to say that the GOP budget put seniors’ lives at risk, Wasserman Schultz doubled down.
“That’s exactly what I’m suggesting,” she said during an appearance on CNN.
The Republican budget, drafted by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), would reform Medicare and Medicaid in significant ways, chiefly by replacing the existing system with block grants to states, which in turn would have the ability to tailor their own systems.
“Sixty percent of seniors in nursing homes are on Medicaid,” Wasserman Schultz said on MSNBC. “And it stands to reason that if you are going after the total amount of spending on Medicaid, the way Paul Ryan’s Republican plan does, and you dramatically cut the amount of money you’re giving to states, and block-granting that program, it stands to reason that frail, elderly senior citizens in nursing homes, who are going to not be able to get into nursing homes anymore because Medicaid won’t be there for them, will not survive.“
Of course, this comes from the party that just slashed $500 billion from Medicare with the Obamacare bill.
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Published May 22, 2012 at 5:04 am - 81 Comments
Militant Conservative commented:
No wonder the left is soooo pisssed off. This rips the power and money away from them in a big way. WHAAAAAAA…….
powder is dry.
dwd commented:
DEMOCRATS: we don’t have a solution, so we spread fear
Matt Harris commented:
Shouldn’t that be $500 billion?
greg commented:
I like having WTF wasserman schults lead the democrat national committee. She is such a loon, foulmouthed and absurd that no high school graduate from even union supervised schools would claim an association. Together with the WON credibility will be beautifully absent
Old Fan commented:
Excellent post Mr. Hoft.
After that ugly Obama speech, and the tendency to focus on the President, it is just another fine example to remind everyone, this is a Democratic Party problem as a whole.
Schultz has been offering the ugliest garbage for years now, just like Schumer, Reid, Durbin, Boxer, Clinton, etc.
DWD says it well…
Rick commented:
Greg, above. I agree, but what is missing is someone on our side who will regularly pound her in a forum that will be seen and heard. Unfortunately, the Republican party as an entity does not fulfill that role. Will someone step up to this, whom we can support? We need some champions.
Cervica Rubra commented:
Would it be politically incorrect to term her “Negative Wasserman” Schultz?
BuddyG commented:
“Yeah. And if you can find a way to cut THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS from the federal budget, then you can keep your lousy shelters. And don’t ever send for me again.”
/Mean-Spirited Republican in the movie “Dave”
IndyRoss commented:
Thast $500 BILLION, not $500 million they cut from Medicare!
IOpian commented:
How can these people be taken seriously with their hyperbolic chicken-little extremist rhetoric? If true then their 15% cut in Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements when they came to power put many elderly nursing home residents to death by putting nursing homes out of business, cutting services and quality of care.
Valerie commented:
Does anybody, anywhere, have a “fearmongering” quote from George Bush on the scale of this cr@ap?
ditto commented:
And next those mean Republicans are going to kill kittens and puppies..
Yet Obamacare is the one that really kills seniors.
Mark commented:
Outfits like AARP propagandize geezers who do not have a clue what is going on and are greedy in the mix. Gimme, gimme, gimme…
donh commented:
The Democrats have put Mrs Trunchbull in charge of their party… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcVnG4HrWBI&feature=related
gus commented:
The party of Planned Parenthood, the party of Obamacare cares about your Granny. If you cannot recognize what a sick pathetic hack Wasserman-Schult is, you are a moron.
Robert commented:
The GOP seems content to be a punching bag. They could instead report on how their budget went into the federal bureaucracy and cut funds, if they would only propose such cuts.
It does indeed seem as if cuts always go against the usual suspects; police, firemen, teachers, children, the elderly.
While we all do know that Medicare and Social Security are the big areas to cut, an immediate $200 or 300 Billion cut into the bloated bureaucracy seems in order, and we just don’t hear about it.
Ginger commented:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ2KKxT3-kM&feature=player_embedded
PLEASE! PLEASE! Get a cup of coffee, soda, sit down and listen to this. Then send it out to every one you know. Save it and bring it back out again right before the election.
Exclusive Interview with Susan Daniels, Private Investigator On Obama’s Social Security Numbers Part One….
navy commented:
why someone didn’t ask this dipstick what will happen to the ole folks if this country goes belly up, is beyond me. and by the way i’m one of those ole folks, but like Hank Williams song a country by can survive, i know how to survive as long as there is fish and wild game.
Robert commented:
Talking about political hacks, why has Obama re-done a budget,
didn’t he just submit a budget outline a month or so ago?
Granny commented:
#13 April 14, 2011 at 9:48 am
Mark commented:
Outfits like AARP propagandize geezers who do not have a clue what is going on and are greedy in the mix. Gimme, gimme, gimme…
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While I agree with you that the AARP propagandizes the elderly, you are dead wrong about the “gimme gimme gimme.” The current generation of seniors have been told all of their lives that their contributions to Social Security and Medicare would be protected specifically to provide them with retirement in their old age. On that basis virtually all companies in the US have discontinued the retirement income programs that their parents (like my grandfather) retired under. And most of their lives, private retirement accounts like IRA and 401K were outlawed. In fact, my Dad was already retirement age when IRAs came on the scene.
Wanting what you have been contractually promised is not greed.
Militant Conservative commented:
Granny, no contract, just promises from the politicians on a ponzy scheme.
I have paid in since I was 16 years old knowing that SSN would not be there when I got old.
I have six figure 401k/Roth. This is after 10 years ago pulling it all out to live on due to the last recession. I am the wrong color and political persuasion to get aid. If I could have invested the monies stolen from me by the government I would be a multi millionaire.
How is this compassion?? It is theft of MY dreams and life making me a slave to the government and support those that will not work.
powder is dry
Granny commented:
#21 April 14, 2011 at 10:12 am
Militant Conservative commented:
Of course there was a contract Militant. By the time that you came along it may have been clear to many that it wasn’t worth the paper it was written on so to speak, but to the current generation of retirees it was clear as a bell: We’re going to forcefully take your money now and hold it without interest for 50 years or so, then give it back to you when you retire.
I’m glad you’re so well off. I have no 401K – too busy raising children as a single parent while Daddy Dearest lied about his income for 20 years to build up anything that looks like retirement. Ah well.
olm commented:
I spoke to my favorite senior citizen today. DWS can just spew all she wants, the Dems are losing seniors rapidly.
They aren’t worried about medicare, they are now positive Obama is going after their savings and my favorite senior is busy today working on how exactly he will protect that.
Alana commented:
“Wanting what you have been contractually promised is not greed.”
Very true, Granny. And exactly so.
american patriot commented:
You know I really don’t want to kill seniors. But I am forever being puzzled why seniors in nursing homes, meals on wheels, tobacco subsidies, foreign wars, pregnant woman, welfare in general, matters concerning education, the ailments of smokers, and on and on are federal matters in the first place.
Ginger commented:
I pray that in November 2012 election that the citizens of America takes all three branches of government away from the Demo-rat/socialist pigs/communist/marxix/liars and all their heads explode from rage! Well we already have one part of the government but you can not really tell at times. God Bless our newly elected republican congress people for speaking out! Do not stop! Get louder! Hold the corrupted demo-rats accountable.
That kinkey haired Wasserman has smelled Pelosi’s a** to long she has been Botoxed!
commonman commented:
Hey Schultz, the only thing that going to kill our seniors is Obamacare,with your death panels , oh I forgot their not death panels what was it the president called them ” An Indepent Commission”.
arnonerik commented:
I see your bet and raise you one. Democrats kill Seniors AND Babies!
StrangernFiction commented:
The GOP seems content to be a punching bag.
Incompetence, Cowardice, and Complicity.
cal rifkin commented:
The ” caucus” told Schumer to use the word ‘extreme’…this, then, is their play for DWS to beat the their “killing seniors drum”, and presumably it’s been focus-grouped and poll-tested. The ‘pubs better be ready for it and anything else that might seem “over-the-top”, ’cause – as Charles Krauthammer said last night – everything up to and including treason will be the mudus operandi for the dims and the accomplice media.
JimBob commented:
I think the GOP should be grateful for ‘Debbie’ at the DNC helm.
StrangernFiction commented:
What kills people is tyranny/authoritarianism/statism/communism/socialism/fascism/progressivism/liberalism
StrangernFiction commented:
Oops, I forgot ‘rats
Old One commented:
Let us hope that the 55% of Americans who tell pollsters they disapprove of Obaliar Have immunized themselves to the insane hyperbole of the wild witch of South Florida Wasserman Schultz or the country is doomed. We know that the 40+ % 0f the population that pay no income taxes are Schultz’s loyal kool-aid customers.
averagemelon commented:
Gee, and all this time I thought people died when thet got really old. I had no idea that lack of nursing homes killed them.
Mark commented:
“Wanting what you have been contractually promised is not greed.”
My ass. Wanting what is not yours is a sin. Hey, the nation of China is yours! Believe it? Pure greed.
gus commented:
If you believe a word Obama or any Libtard says, you are either willfully stupid or you are dependent on government and don’t have the balls to take care of yourself.
averagemelon commented:
This nation has never been as stupid as they thought we were and seniors are probably one of the smartest groups. The only serious mistake we made in electing Obama is thinking he was telling us the truth. Since he proved us wrong in spades, we no longer listen to him or his cronies.
Pound salt, Watch-her-man. There might be deaths in the future, but not from Republicans.
wow commented:
#6 April 14, 2011 at 9:24 am
Rick commented:
I think Col. West would be fabulous for to stand up to DWS. Not only is he well spoken, knowledgeable, a congressman from Florida, but he is as he himself has said “an un-hyphenated American.”
Mark commented:
West is a good guy, but he would be sooo stabbed in the back by the media and polit-whores, Caesar would shrug.
Some political experience is required. The Mustang Ranch Washington has become is an embarassment.
AuntieMadder commented:
I thought it was going to kill women.
AuntieMadder commented:
Granny commented:
…[T]o the current generation of retirees it was clear as a bell: We’re going to forcefully take your money now and hold it without interest for 50 years or so, then give it back to you when you retire.”
My granddad worked all of his life (damned near literally: he helped his parents sell veggies at the Farmers Market when he was just five years old; he stopped working at 85 and died a few months later). During his adult years, working either on someone’s payroll or self-employed, he paid into FICA. Since his death 20 years ago, his widow (my grandmother), who was a homemaker all of their marriage, has received each month a measly $500 Social Security benefit check, the return of his life-long contributions to the account, which I’m sure sounded like a great deal to him in the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60s, having no way to know just how much the cost of living would rise during the decades that followed, including (and especially) this one.
If their home mortgage wasn’t long ago paid off, if one of her daughters didn’t live with her, and if my dad didn’t take care of everything she needs that $500/month won’t cover (she used to pay her own utility bills and buy food, but I doubt $500 covers much more than food, toiletries, cleaning supplies…those regular “consumables,” forget even splitting the utility costs with her daughter, now), she’d be destitute, unable to keep the home they bought, maybe even dead by now.
Although I can’t say if my granddad would have (he wasn’t educated well at all and, having lived through the Great Depression himself, wasn’t trusting of banks/bankers), the people of his generation, your generation, and all that have followed, too, would have been better off putting the contributions to FICA into interest bearing accounts of some kind, instead. (I don’t understand much about all of that, either, except what they tell me.)
Anyway, it’s not like any senior citizens are living large on the checks they receive from Social Security but without those checks, many would have nothing to live on. It’s only right to keep the contracts the govt made with them. Moving forward with the generations of us still working, however…
chuck in st paul commented:
Kills seniors…
Sounds like a plan to me. With all the Baby Boomer a-holes increasing the drain on taxpayers via Mediscare and Social (in)Security killing off a few million sounds like a good thing.
Mary commented:
Let’s face it, the biggest reason this loud-mouthed brash woman is head of the DNC is because she is a woman…they need someone who can “go after” Palin and/or Bachman without being called chauvinistic (there’s an ancient word for you). The dems are terrified of Sarah and Michelle.
I wish DWS would put a sock in it….
bg commented:
++
ht chicago #16
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fightinggranny commented:
When this country is belly up, chuck in st paul, we will be able to take care of our own needs.
We know how to grow food, kill game and fend for ourselves. Sorry to say, you will be dead way before us