FL GOP House candidate Daniel Webster: "Turn off the spigot" of $100 per month to seniors

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Daniel Webster, GOP House Candidate, Proposes Budget That Would Cut Social Security Benefits

First Posted: 08-16-10 02:07 PM | Updated: 08-16-10 03:28 PM



A Republican House candidate in Florida wants senior citizens to share the burden of reducing the national budget deficit through cuts to Social Security benefits.

"My number one priority would be to cut spending, turn off the spigot. We can do that, and the way we would do that is to roll back the budget to 2007," said Daniel Webster during a Tea Party forum for Republican candidates gunning for firebrand Democrat Alan Grayson's job.

"Just three years ago, if we would take that budget and pass it today just as it was, does it roll back some salary increases? Yes," Webster continued. "Does it get rid of TARP and health care and all of the other things, including the stimulus package? Yes, it does that. Does it take back some of the COLAs for the entitlement programs? Yes, it does that, too. But it's only three years ago. If we took that budget and passed it, it would self-balance in two more years."

Webster is a former Florida Senate majority leader and a frontrunner in the Aug. 24 primary.

Cost of Living Adjustments (COLAs) in 2008 and 2009, of 2.3 percent and 5.8 percent, respectively, amounted to roughly $100 per retiree every month.

"For Webster to propose cuts of $100 per person to a program that has served seniors well for so long is an indication that, if he's elected, seniors will be the first ones to suffer," said Tony Fransetta, president of the Florida Alliance for Retired Americans, in a statement.

The Webster campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment from HuffPost.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/16/daniel-webster-gop-house_n_683293.html

[niyad]

1. webster, may you have to live in the conditions to which you would like to sentence seniors.

[NC_Nurse]

2. In Florida? What is he, suicidal? You don't say that in Gods waiting room!

[Luciferous]

14. Ha!

[walldude]

17. LOL... beat me to it.

Guy is a moron. Attacking seniors in Florida? Gee maybe he should go to Texas and start a campaign to tax Christian Churches... :rofl:

[KingFlorez]

3. He's asking for Alan Grayson to wipe the floor with him

This will not help Webster any.

[gratuitous]

4. Daniel the little Dutch boy Webster

Concentrating very hard on a hundred bucks a month that is immediately spent and re-spent in the economy. Totally oblivious to the billions a month hemorrhaging from the Treasury that is nearly literally absorbed into the desert land of Iraq and Afghanistan. Will Florida's seniors give up a hundred bucks every month so we can continue our global occupations? Webster says, "Yes!"

[Dappleganger]

5. This is why we're fucked in FL...

And nobody from the democratic FL party is standing up to them, either.

[county worker]

10. You have one of the biggest population of seniors of any state!

Hell when I use to drive near St Pete a big ass cady would pull out in front of me on the highway doing 35 MPH with a little old lady in the front seat. I hear that at retirement homes when ever there is a ambulance siren people gather at the door of the victim to see what goodies will be available after the wake. On Sanibel Island the Sanibel stoop is all the rage. Little old ladies gathering sea shells while hubby holds the basket.

Those senior are not all tea baggers are they?

[Dappleganger]

15. Check out the politics in The Villages.

Quite a few teabaggers stomped there already. However, down in SoFL the older population is mostly democratic still (they're our saving grace).

BTW, I have done the "Sanibel Stoop" before and am nowhere near being a senior, LOL!

[county worker]

19. Me too. Sanibel has so many shells!

[county worker]

6. First give back the money spent on the wars and pay back the money given to the wealthy.

Why is the right always so ready to screw those who would get hurt the most?

Also with that kind of talk why do we constantly hear that the Dems are going to lose seats?

[sinkingfeeling]

7. Two words. One begins with 'B' and the other with 'S'. Bush tax cuts for the rich would still be

unfunded, as would be his two wars, and Medicare Part D.

[monmouth]

8. He fails to mention the increases we had in rent would have to be rolled

back and food prices would need to be .....well, you get my drift. Send me a ticket kid, I want outta here....

[Roland99]

9. Let's roll back the last 3 years of corporate profits, esp. insurance, pharma and financial firms!!

[lpbk2713]

11. Oh that's gonna go over real big in Florida ... ROFL

WTF is this asshole thinking!?


ETA: We should all send him emails telling him we are his constituents and that we support him 100% just in
case he considers changing his mind. Not that Grayson would have any problem defeating this assclown. :rofl:

[TheCowsCameHome]

12. Goodbye, Dan.

Your fucking career in Florida (of all places) is over.:rofl:

[burnsei sensei]

13. Looks like a stupid, insane fuck.

Why don't you take a 10% cut in pay while you're at it Webster?

[librechik]

16. Why stop in 2007? Let's roll everything back to 1979, before Reagan killed the US economy

makes more sense than what Webster proposes.

[Bandit]

18. it would self-balance in two more years."

Why just as it did in 2007....D'Oh Record Deficit that year...Hmmmm

[Overseas]

20. A true Republican. Ignore war profiteering, force seniors to sacrifice instead. //nt