Just when you thought she couldn't get any weirder, Sharron Angle delivers the crazy:
Angle: Social Security, Welfare And Legal Divorce Are Nation's 'Wicked Ways'
After months and months of insisting that she really doesn't oppose Social Security -- despite her past statements about wanting to phase it out -- now a tape has surfaced of Nevada Republican Senate nominee Sharron Angle decrying the program as an example of society's "wicked ways." And this was just two and a half weeks ago.
As Politico reports, an audio recording was uploaded to the Democratic National Committee's Accountability Project site, of Angle speaking at a church on October 10. During her speech, Angle offered a confession for America's sins -- going beyond just the standard religious conservative issues of abortion, but also the legislation of divorce, and various social welfare programs.
Angle might try to defend herself by saying that the thing that she believes is wicked about Social Security is not so much the program itself but the fact that we rely on it to prevent poverty among seniors instead of taking care of poor seniors on our own. But that misses the essential point: Social Security is an example of taking care of our own. The whole idea of Social Security is to prevent poverty among seniors. And it works because everybody pays into it, and everybody benefits from it.
In fact, Angle's philosophy stands in stark contrast to none other than Abraham Lincoln. She said:
We as a nation have been walking away from our constitutional freedom and relying on government instead to take care of the widow and the orphan.
Contrast that with what Lincoln said in his second inaugural:
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
So when Sharron Angle says Social Security is something wicked, she's not only wrong for twenty-first century, not only wrong for the twentieth century, she's wrong for the nineteenth century, too. If anything is wicked, it's Sharron Angle's plan to phase it out.