Why does FR think this is news. Every election year the democrats use social security and abortion to bash republicans. You would think since they have been in control of congress for almost 6 yrs and the presidency for almost two yrs they would try and run on their accomplishments. Oh yea, they don't have anything so they have to resort to negative campaigning. Remember this election is about the economy, which the democrats have proven they know nothing about.

The Guns of August

Essential viewing: Sharron Angle's new TV ad hits Reid-Obama-Pelosi and the Dem record with a rocket.

HALPERIN'S TAKE: Republican candidates can do a version of this ad in almost every race in the country. You don't need a focus group to figure out that this is a powerful message

Folks Meet Sharron Angles’ Position That Are Publicly Known

RENO, Nev. — Sharron Angle strode to the microphones here and made a vigorous defense of her fiercely conservative positions,

Renewing her calls for the elimination of the Education Department and

Her calls to eliminate federal agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency,

Energy Department and

Signaling that she still supports a Social Security system that will eventually be “transitioned out.”

Sharron Angle's Advice For Rape Victims Considering Abortion: Turn Lemons Into Lemonade
One thing she has not backed away from has been her insistence that abortion should be outlawed universally, even in cases of rape and incest.

In a radio interview Angle did in late June, the Tea Party favorite re-affirmed her pro-life sensibilities (rigid, as they are, even within Republican circles), when she insisted that a young girl raped by her father should know that "two wrongs don't make a right." Much good can come from a horrific situation like that, Angle added. Lemons can be made into lemonade.

Sharron Angle: “We should cut unemployment benefits to encourage jobless to go back to work”

She said we should cut unemployment benefits to encourage those who lost their jobs to reenter the labor force at a lower level than they left it.

Angle has been linked in the 1990’s to the Independent American Party which claims to be libertarian, but is really nothing more than a Christian Conservative political party. She was a member for six years.

Sharon Angle’s Old Party Backs Discrimination Against LGBT Americans

Angle's call to truck in nuclear waste to Nevada?

Outlawing alcohol?

Getting rid of Social Security and Medicare

Angle also stood by her claim that creating jobs is not a senator's responsibility

Instead, she said a senator must foster an environment for lower regulations and taxes that would spur job growth and called government “the problem.”

Mr. Halperin is well aware of her positions yet he calls this “Dishonest Ad Powerful”

We The People’s Take;

Mr. Halperin:

Such A Disappointment coming from you.

That’s why this country is swiftly becoming a 3^rd world country because Media Elites like yourself promote Republicans views inadvertantly by choosing as if this was a game rather than taking care knowing as in this case that no matter what this candidate says this add is not a winner, maybe for you but it's a looser for the American Family because of what she Stands for and will do if elected

You use your Media Savvy to Promotes these "Extreme Republicans" and push them back on the American people for doing absolutely nothing to help to fix the very problems they caused

without even blinking an eye and having no absolutely “no concern” for the American families that are suffering because of the Republican’s Actions perpetrated upon this entire nation

Sir How do you and others who simply turn a blind eye to suffering of your “Fellow American families, the cause, and continue to push these “Just Say No Holding The Country Hostage To Regain Power” sleep at night?

Are “politics” and the “game of “ratings, & winning more important to you than the welfare of an entire people?

Media has lost its compass it should be to serve and educate the American people now it’s become a tool for profit!

Sir you know the truth of how we got to this place and Politics, Holding American Families Hostage for the sake of ratings will not help these struggling families nor this country

and you also know that Republicans have expressed no remorse, have candidates such as this who have publicly stated that they plan to dismantle the lives of the Elderly, the Retired & those planning to Retire and have no plan to fix the mess they made other than just say no and will in inevitably cause more of the same which will cripple struggling families unless of course you are naïve, and believe that Most Americans are naïve as well

The Question becomes should you and others like yourself be in a position of communicating with the public because like it or not Media is a position or should be to some extent (to tell the truth preferable all the time but we know that will not happen in our country so Americans will have to settle for some of the time) be in a position of even partial Public Trust?

But we, for the most part know that today’s 24/7 cable and media is all about the money, competition for a race to the bottom (from most Americans prospective) void of the “real” undeniable destruction the adverse reporting has on the American Family as we use to know it.

We can only hope that the next generation values are more dedicated to putting the welfare of the American people first.

This country and it's people need to get a grip. We are becoming no better of a society than those countries we keep invading. The hate and intolerance is becoming extreme.

Mr. Halprin those Struggling Families are not as "Wealthy As you" and don't have the luxury of playing with their lives for Sport!

Lets start with this before it goes to far, gee Nostradumbass (Beckerhead) just said he was wearing a bullet proof vest.

Myth: Social Security is going broke.

Reality: There is no Social Security crisis. By 2023, Social Security will have a $4.3 trillion surplus (yes, trillion with a 'T'). It can pay out all scheduled benefits for the next quarter-century with no changes whatsoever.¹ After 2037, it'll still be able to pay out 75% of scheduled benefits--and again, that's without any changes. The program started preparing for the Baby Boomers retirement decades ago.² Anyone who insists Social Security is broke probably wants to break it themselves.

Myth: We have to raise the retirement age because people are living longer.

Reality: This is a red-herring to trick you into agreeing to benefit cuts. Retirees are living about the same amount of time as they were in the 1930s. The reason average life expectancy is higher is mostly because many fewer people die as children than did 70 years ago.³ What's more, what gains there have been are distributed very unevenly--since 1972, life expectancy increased by 6.5 years for workers in the top half of the income brackets, but by less than 2 years for those in the bottom half.⁴ But those intent on cutting Social Security love this argument because raising the retirement age is the same as an across-the-board benefit cut.

Myth: Benefit cuts are the only way to fix Social Security.

Reality: Social Security doesn't need to be fixed. But if we want to strengthen it, here's a better way: Make the rich pay their fair share. If the very rich paid taxes on all of their income, Social Security would be sustainable for decades to come.⁵ Right now, high earners only pay Social Security taxes on the first $106,000 of their income.⁶ But conservatives insist benefit cuts are the only way because they want to protect the super-rich from paying their fair share.

Myth: The Social Security Trust Fund has been raided and is full of IOUs

Reality: Not even close to true. The Social Security Trust Fund isn't full of IOUs, it's full of U.S. Treasury Bonds. And those bonds are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States.⁷ The reason Social Security holds only treasury bonds is the same reason many Americans do: The federal government has never missed a single interest payment on its debts. President Bush wanted to put Social Security funds in the stock market--which would have been disastrous--but luckily, he failed. So the trillions of dollars in the Social Security Trust Fund, which are separate from the regular budget, are as safe as can be.

Myth: Social Security adds to the deficit

Reality: It's not just wrong -- it's impossible! By law, Social Security funds are separate from the budget, and it must pay its own way. That means that Social Security can't add one penny to the deficit.¹

Sources:

1."To Deficit Hawks: We the People Know Best on Social Security" New Deal 2.0, June 14, 2010
http://www.newdeal20.org/2010/06/14/to-defict-hawks-we-the-people-know-best-on-social-security-12290/

2. "The Straight Facts on Social Security" Economic Opportunity Institute, September 2009
http://www.eoionline.org/retirement_security/fact_sheets/StraightFactsSocialSecurity-Sep09.pdf

3. "Social Security and the Age of Retirement"Center for Economic and Policy Research, June 2010
http://www.cepr.net/index.php/publications/reports/social-security-and-the-age-of-retirement/

4. "More on raising the retirement age" Ezra Klein, Washington Post, July 8, 2010
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/07/more_on_raising_the_retirement.html

5. "Social Security is sustainable" Economic and Policy Institute, May 27, 2010
http://www.epi.org/analysis_and_opinion/entry/social_security_is_sustainable/

6. "Maximum wage contribution and the amount for a credit in 2010." Social Security Administration, April 23, 2010
http://ssa-custhelp.ssa.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/240

7. "Trust Fund FAQs" Social Security Administration, February 18, 2010
http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/ProgData/fundFAQ.html

8. "To Deficit Hawks: We the People Know Best on Social Security" New Deal 2.0, June 14, 2010
http://www.newdeal20.org/2010/06/14/to-defict-hawks-we-the-people-know-best-on-social-security-12290/

Dick Armey Lays Out Proposal To End Social Security And Medicare ‘As You Know It’ CNBC this morning, former Republican House Speaker cum tea party leader Dick Armey had no qualms about calling for “Cutting Social Security and Medicare.

He advocated making “Social Security & Medicare” critical programs optional — and even suggested they are “flab” and “waste” —

something that would almost certainly destroy them, despite his “guarantee” that that social security under his scheme would be “as you know it today”:

Last week, President Obama accused Republicans of trying to destroy Social Security, noting that they are “pushing to make privatizing Social Security a key part of their legislative agenda if they win a majority in Congress this fall.”

Of course, conservative talking heads denied this, claiming, “There’s no Republican, basically, standing up and saying that,” as GOP strategist Ed Rollins told CNN.

ARMEY: Let me say that flab is a good word in government. It is wasteful, counter-productive flab that not only does not good for America, but actually diminishes America’s ability to function. [...]

HOST: If you had your druthers, where would you cut?

ARMEY: Where would I cut? First thing I’d do…let Social Security be a choice. … I will give you a guarantee you will get your social security as you know it today, with no change other than a proper cost of living index if you choose to stay if you let those of us who want to leave it. And if it’s such a great deal, why can’t it be voluntary? Why must the government force people to accept their benefits whether they need them or not or whether they want them or not.

Let Medicare be voluntary. I mean, why is that so hard?

While this might be a winning talking point for Armey’s tea party followers, his half-baked idea would almost certainly “Collapse the vital American social safety net.”