Sharron Angle’s Position on Social Security: Now She’s Just Simply Lying (w/VIDEO)
Black is white. Up is down. Eliminate means save. This is the world of Sharron Angle.
Having tanked in polls since winning the GOP nomination, Angle is now engaged in an attempt to rewrite history regarding her position on Social Security – now claiming she actually wants to save Social Security. The problem? Angle has spent her entire political career, escalated to a fever pitch during the Republican primary campaign, denouncing Social Security and promising to dismantle the program entirely.
Now, in interviews with friendly conservative media outlets as well as paid communications, Angle is claiming she’s never wanted to eliminate or phase out Social Security, but rather that she’s always been an advocate of “saving” the program. Angle must believe that Nevada voters and members of the media have amnesia, or that video evidence over her long-standing agenda to dismantle Social Security simply doesn’t exist.
Here’s Sharron Angle – in her very own words – on what her agenda for Social Security is in a GOP primary debate. Her position couldn’t be clearer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpZYnmQkRk4
In addition, multiple media accounts and video clips of Sharron Angle – again in her very own words – prove her current attempts to paper over her extreme and dangerous agenda to dismantle Social Security are simply politically-expedient lies. Angle’s plans for Social Security had been unequivocal until her DC handlers muzzled her, having been expressed or described by the following phrases:
- “Angle wants to wipe out Social Security”
- “Getting out of Medicare and Social Security is not up for grabs”
- “Going forward we need to phase it out”
- “We need to phase Medicare and Social Security out”
- “It’s very difficult…to justify Social Security”
***NEW VIDEO: Directly responsive to Sharron Angle’s latest false claims on Social Security, the Reid campaign deconstructs the lies.
Watch “Sharron Angle – Behind the Rhetoric”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu-FPDC4nhQ
Background: Angle on Social Security in Her Own Words
Associated Press: “Sharron Angle Wants to Wipe Out Social Security.” According to the Associated Press, “Sharron Angle wants to wipe out Social Security…” [Associated Press, 6/1/2010]
Sharron Angle Would “Phase Out” Medicare And Social Security. During a May 2010 debate on Face to Face, Sharron Angle said, “We need to phase Medicare and Social Security out in favor of something privatized.” She later added, “Going forward we need to phase it out, give people an opportunity to either opt into the old system or go for a new system where they have their own healthcare savings account or they have their own retirement savings account which is portable and goes with them from job to job and for those who are entering the workforce right now they come on to the new system so it’s a phased-in system so it’s something [inaudible] privatize.” [Face to Face Debate, 5/19/10]
Angle Said Social Security Is “Difficult To Justify,” Likened Social Security To Welfare. In a May 2010 interview with KNPR, Angle said, “It’s very difficult…to justify Social Security. As you know F.D.R. put it in as an insurance policy for those who were needy. My grandfather would not even take his Social Security check because he said he was not up for welfare, he had planned for his retirement, so he wouldn’t take it. But, since then we have gotten into this whole mindset that it’s an entitlement.” [KNPR, State of Nevada, 5/19/2010]
Angle: “Getting Out Of Medicare And Social Security Is Not Up For Grabs.” In June 2010, Talking Points Memo reported, “In an interview from three weeks before the Nevada Republican primary, Sharron Angle made it clear that getting rid of Medicare and Social Security is a non-negotiable issue for her … Going on in the interview, Angle talks about how as a Senator she would work with other legislators to formulate a proper solution for her idea, haggling over the details and implementation of privatization without giving up on the main idea itself: ‘The idea of privatizing and getting out of Medicare and Social Security is not up for grabs.’” [Talking Points Memo, 6/14/10 quoting KNPR, 5/19/2010]
