FreedomTalks

The Pennsylvania chapter of FreedomWorks is starting a membership drive this month, in order to increase the number of local chapters in the state. If you are interested in starting a local chapter in your town, please contact Grassroots Manager Brendan Steinhauser at 202-942-7612. He will put you in touch with the volunteer chapter leader [...]

There are a few things to remember when you are planning your organizational meetings for your local FreedomWorks chapter. If you are able to employ these strategies, your members will be regular attendees, and will look forward to meetings, rather than staying at home and remaining inactive.

Remember:
1. Keep meetings short! No FreedomWorks general chapter meeting [...]

Donald J. Boudreaux, the chairman of the Department of Economics at George Mason University, recently had two interesting columns in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. The first is filled with statistics on why Americans don’t have anything to fear from open immigration. The second one made some interesting points about immigration and freedom:
“I recently encountered [...]

Today, sign-ups begin for the new prescription drug benefit the federal government is offering, which is the largest federal entitlements expansion since Johnson launched his Great Society.
Michael Cannon at the Cato Institute lists “Eight Reasons to Delay the Imprudent Drug Program” including “1. We can’t afford it” and “2. We really can’t afford it.”
This new [...]

In a recent Washington Times piece Richard Rahn makes a convincing argument for the disbandment of the Federal Reserve. Initially this sounds outlandish because of its “great results.” But upon further review your opinion may change. The Fed’s responsibility is setting the Fed funds rate in order to maintain value of the currency. But from [...]

Today is the 10th anniversary of the 1995 government shutdown, when the Republican-led Congress faced of with President Clinton over how many taxpayer dollars they were willing to spend. Clinton was the obstacle to the Republican’s efforts to cut government spending, one of the issues that helped them gain the majority in the House [...]

Prop 76 was shot down. Does that mean the taxpayers of California didn’t want it? No. That means the Unions didn’t want it. They didn’t want it so bad, that they spent over $200 million(some say closer to 400 million) dollars to confuse people on the initiative. That is more then Al Gore spent on [...]

Seeing as the Social Security entitlement program’s impending shortfall has egregious ramifications both economically and socially, it would make sense to hold a constructive debate about the issue before it’s too late. But from what I’ve seen in Washington politics it doesn’t really matter what makes sense, as long as you can maintain your elected position to serve your constituents (by not addressing pressing issues).

Despite the recent setback in Colorado, Georgia must move forward and adopt a Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights. Currently, the proposal is sitting in a dark corner in the Georgia Legislature. State Representatives have been quietly awaiting the results in Colorado to gauge the likelihood of their own success.
But as the Georgia Public Policy Foundation’s guest [...]

FreedomWorks volunteer chapter leader Tim Cranston has been organizing in Billings the last couple of weeks. If you are interested in getting involved with FreedomWorks Montana, please call 202-942-7612 and speak to the Grassroots Manager. He will put you in touch with Tim and let you know what meetings are being planned around the state.