In the Sen. Reid versus crazy Sharron Angle debate the media has decided Angle won. All of Angle's answers were either lies, distortions or avoidance of having any concrete solutions to the problems she was asked about. Angle has a long history of lies, highly inflammatory rhetoric, distortions and radical views,
In response to her pastor’s hateful remarks attacking the Mormon Church as a “cult,” Angle says she hasn’t been a member for six years; it’s been less than one
LAS VEGAS – Sharron Angle continues to refuse to step up and explain her relationship with a former spiritual advisor whose controversial remarks are making national news. In a bombshell interview first published this morning in the Reno News & Review, Angle’s former long-time pastor, John Reed, launched a bigoted attack against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, of which Sen. Reid is a member.
Despite the hateful religious bigotry involved, Angle wouldn’t address her relationship with her former spiritual advisor for the original story, and only after the ensuing media firestorm erupted did her spokesman issue a brief statement. In it, he claimed that Angle had not been a member of Sonrise church for six years.
“Sharron has not been a member of this other church for over six years, and her former pastor in no way speaks for Sharron.”
But according to the AP, that is a complete and total lie:
But Reed said Angle sang in a contemporary Christian band and taught Sunday school for more than a decade at his Reno church until her husband urged her to switch to a different house of worship earlier this year where he could hold a more prominent volunteer position. “She asked if she could come back and visit,” Reed said. “She was very sad to leave us.”
That’s right – Sharron Angle’s “pathological” inclination to offer bald-faced lies to the media and the voters of Nevada is so extreme that she lied about church.
“This hateful rhetoric from Sharron Angle’s former spiritual advisor is so serious that she owes the people of Nevada a personal explanation, especially since she didn’t think it serious enough to address until it became a national media frenzy,” said Reid campaign spokesman Kelly Steele. “Sharron Angle says she wants an informed electorate, and whether it's her relationship with her hateful former spiritual advisor, the national scandal surrounding her botched influence-peddling scheme with Tea Party candidate Scott Ashjian, or her extremely callous comments mocking 'autism' coverage, it's time for Sharron Angle to stop hiding behind her handlers and step up and explain herself.”
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Sharron Angle Wants To Privatize Social Security Like Chile
Republican 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.CBS affiliate 8 News Now reports on what the Tea Party-backed hopeful had to say on the matter in an interview on Thursday:
...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. 8 News NOW asked how is that not a flip flop.
"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. As of last Friday, they said, (there was a) $41 billion shortfall in Social Security. $41 billion less going in than coming out. It's broken," she said.
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.
"When I said privatize, that's what I meant," explained the Senate contender. "That I thought we would just have to go to the private sector for a template on how this is supposed to be done. However, I've since been studying and Chile has done this."
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.
There are lots of reasons why, in the real world, a privatized system doesn't work.
For the first ten years, while Chile had high inflation, their investment funds did well, since about half was invested in government bonds that were indexed to inflation. But once the economy cooled down, returns fell and they now pay little in return.
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Angle’s proposal to privatize the VA would end the system as we know it, completely abandon tried-and-true system veterans depend on for prescriptions, doctor’s visits
LAS VEGAS – The Reid campaign today released a new TV ad highlighting Sharron Angle’s extreme and dangerous agenda for Nevada’s veterans—ending the Veteran’s Administration as we know it with her risky scheme to privatize the system. Despite the best efforts of Angle’s new DC handlers to completely repackage her, Angle has consistently declined the chance to walk back her extreme position that would ultimately hurt Nevada’s vets and jeopardize their access to quality care.
That’s not an exaggeration. In Sharron Angle’s Nevada, when veterans returned home after risking their lives to defend our freedoms, their guaranteed right to have quality government treatment for injuries, illnesses, and prescription drug costs would no longer be guaranteed – it would be put into the hands of the private sector. The same private sector that Angle believes should have no basic coverage requirements and should be allowed to exclude anyone they want based on pre-existing conditions.
When asked point blank asked if things like prescription drugs and doctor’s visits should be covered by the VA, Angle callously answered:
“No, not if you’re moving towards a privatized system.”
When pressed later in the conversation on specifics, Angle demurred when asked if eliminating VA coverage would simply leave veterans out in the cold, saying that was something the President or other members of Congress could figure out.
WATCH THE NEW TV AD HERE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q2fdBLRKP8
“Given Sharron Angle’s extreme and dangerous agenda to eliminate Social Security and Medicare entirely, it’s no surprise that she would also leave Nevada’s veterans out in the cold by ending their access to guaranteed government health care for the service they’ve provided to our country,” said Reid campaign spokesman Kelly Steele. “By proposing privatization of the Veterans Administration, Sharron Angle has once again put her extreme and dangerous agenda above the needs of ordinary Nevadans – this time callously ignoring the sacrifice and service of our nation’s veterans, both here in Nevada and throughout our nation.”
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The Las Vegas Review Journal is basically a Republican newspaper. Last October after an interview with Sharron Angle they reported that she believes in phasing Medicare out. “As for Medicare, she (Angle) said the entitlement program popular with seniors will eventually grow too costly to maintain… ‘We need to phase it out,’ she said.” Rand Paul went even further. A Courier-Journal review of Paul’s prior statements found he had compared Medicare to Soviet socialism. “Advancing his belief that health care prices should be set by the marketplace, Paul also has attacked having government set Medicare reimbursements for doctors. The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed-- socialism doesn't work," Paul said on Kentucky Tonight on June 16, 1998. "You have ... no price fluctuation.” (Interestingly more than half of Rand Paul's income-- he's an uncertified eye doctor-- comes from Medicare.)
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Sharron Angle: Rape, Incest Part of God's Plan -- Opposes Abortion No Matter What
The Nevada GOP nominee for Senate thinks abortion should not be allowed even in cases of rape and incest.
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Sharron Angle And Her Husband Receive Government Health Care
Throughout her campaign for U.S. Senate in Nevada, GOP candidate and tea party favorite Sharron Angle has railed against government intervention in just about everything. Angle said she wants to “personalize” Social Security, and she even went so far as to suggest the possibility of an armed insurrection against the U.S. government to protect “against a tyrannical government.” Part of Angle’s anti-government philosophy has also included health care. She wants to repeal the new health care law and recently attacked mandating coverage for autism and maternity leave. She even suggested that Medicare and VA coverage work “towards a privatized system.” But Politico notes today that Angle this week admitted that both she and her husband benefit from government subsidized health care:
Angle’s campaign acknowledged to Nevada journalist Jon Ralston Monday that both the candidate and her husband receive health care from the federal government. Spokeswoman Ciara Matthews said in a statement: “Mr. Ted Angle receives his pension through the (federal) Civil Service Retirement System. While it is not supplemented by the federal government, current civil servants pay into the program to pay the schedule of those already retired – much like how the Social Security Program works today. Mr. Angle does not qualify – nor does he receive Social Security benefits. His health insurance plan (the Federal Employee Health Program), which also covers Sharron, is a continuation of what he was receiving while he worked for the federal government.”
