Sharron Angle and her 19th century privatization ideas

Republican and unlikely U.S. Senate hopeful Sharron Angle says the nation's Social Security system needs to be privatized, and she says it was done before in Chile.

Angle's new ads say she's out to save Social Security by protecting it from government raids. But in the primary, she said that Medicare and Social Security needed to be phased out in favor of something privatized, saying, that it can't be fixed.

"It is when we have a $2.5 trillion raid and pillaging going on and an empty trust fund and now we are upside down.

According to Nancy Pelosi and the Social Secuirty Administration, Angle's contentions about Social Security and Medicare are bogus.  See http://rightardia.blogspot.com/2010/08/gavel-75th-anniversary-of-social.html


In addition, Medicare was strengthened when the Affordable Health Care Act was passed.

Angle appears to be using fear mongering to pick up voters.


Angle then referred to 1980s Chile -- then under a military dictatorship -- to explain her previous statements that the United States should phase out its current system.

However, the pension system established in 1981 by right-wing Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is no longer a fully private system. Chile's system was revamped in 2008 to expand public pensions for groups left out of its system, including low-income seniors.

In a new campaign ad, the GOP candidate claims she wants to "save Social Security" and takes aim at the incumbent Senator . . .

Harry Reid and Democrats say Angle's ideas about Social Security are extreme.

Actually her 19th century ideas on Social Security and Medicare are typical for most Republican senators and representatives. 

The Las Vegas Sun reported that Reid spokesman Kelly Steele said:

Before her D.C. handlers put a muzzle on her, Sharron Angle spent her entire political career loudly and proudly denouncing Social Security and promising to dismantle the program entirely. At this point, she must believe that Nevada voters...are ignorant or they have amnesia.

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