FreedomTalks

The Boston Herald reports that presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, who opposed Bush’s tax cuts as Governor, may be changing his tune. Is this a real change of heart or part of efforts to appeal to the fiscal conservative voters?
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It’s very hard to square the recent comments by a Google executive with the company’s stance in favor of Net Neutrality mandates. According to Reuters’ report titled “Google and cable firms warn of risks from Web TV”, Vincent Dureau, Google’s head of TV technology, said at the Cable Europe Congress yesterday that, “The Web [...]

Here is the best idea we’ve seen regarding the social security mess.
Watch the video here.
It’s time for younger workers to have a choice: stay in the old system that is facing bankruptcy, or invest in a personal retirement account that will lead to growth and real retirement security.

The Wall Street Journal blog Washington Wire has the story.
Romney won’t propose changes in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid — the government entitlement programs that are growing at unsustainable rates — but instead will press for all sides to come to the bargaining table; Bush proposed a bipartisan entitlement commission in his 2006 State of [...]

The labor union-sponsored “card check” bill has been scheduled for a House committee hearing on Thursday. The National Retail Federation just put out this press release, calling for Congress to defeat this bill.
As FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe wrote for Townhall.com,
“Democratic leaders have promised to bring Senator Ted Kennedy’s Employee Free Choice Act to a [...]

Bloomberg has the article.
Romney’s tax policies are still a work in progress. Aides say he was prepared to call for a corporate rate reduction in his Detroit speech and changed his mind. Endorsing a cut in the corporate rate would be controversial: Many Republican activists are more interested in cutting marginal rates for individuals than [...]

In this Townhall article, 2008 presidential hopeful John Edwards admits he would most likely raise taxes to help fund his major domestic policy initiative of quality health coverage for all by 2012. The health plan, which is estimated to cost nearly $120 billion a year, will be coupled with the fact that the Senator plans [...]

If you are in Oregon and want to attend a hearing to speak out against tax increases, please contact me at bsteinhauser @ freedomworks.org
The hearing is scheduled for 1pm Wednesday at the capitol in Salem.
Here are the details: http://www.leg.state.or.us/07reg/pubs/commsch.pdf

FreedomWorks Chairman Dick Armey will be a guest on Fox’s Fox and Friends Wednesday morning at approximately 7:10 AM Eastern. Armey will discuss FreedomWorks, how to bring the GOP back, and take a quick look at the 2008 presidential field.

Here is the audio of the entire speech, “A Time for Choosing”, which Reagan delivered in 1964.