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O'Donnell backpedals on Social Security
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| News Date | Tuesday, July 11, 2006 07:10:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Republican congressional candidate Rick O'Donnell tried to take the steam out of anticipated attack ads by acknowledging Monday that he wrote an essay 11 years ago calling for the abolishment of Social Security.
O'Donnell, 36, said he has since changed his position and wants voters to know, before Democrats slam him, that he now favors fixing Social Security, not abandoning it.
His essay, titled "For Freedom's Sake, Eliminate Social Security," was published in February 1995, when he was editing American Civilization, a publication of Newt Gingrich's Progress and Freedom Foundation.
"As we bury the rest of the welfare state in preparation for the 21st century, it is time to slay the largest government 'entitlement' program of all, Social Security," O'Donnell wrote. |
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