Angle shifts position on public benefits [View All]

[TomCADem]

Source: Associated Press

LAS VEGAS — In a dramatic shift, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle said Saturday she wouldn't work to privatize Veterans Affairs, dismantle Social Security or dismiss unemployment benefits as welfare.

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For example, she had said Veterans Affairs should move toward a privatized system and not cover prescription drugs; cited Chile's privatized Social Security program as a model for the United States; and called for reduced unemployment benefits.

Angle on Saturday denied she had called for the end of the VA.

"What I said was we could do better," she said.


Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39597443/ns/politics-decision_2010/

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It is Sharron Angle versus Sharron Angle. My goodness, she may even manage to out do the king of flip flops, John McCain.