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A recent article in the Boston Globe wrote that
Nearly one-third of baby boomers ages 51 to 61 are at risk of not having enough in savings to finance a comfortable retirement
One of the reasons people are having difficulty saving is because social security does not pay seniors enough to live on. If individuals could […]

Our friends at Red State have invited Sen. Dick Durbin to their blog, in an effort to solicit opinion about broadband legislation that Sen. Durbin will be drafting.
FreedomWorks’ message for Sen Durbin: Please oppose any effort to impose federal “net neutrality” regulations on broadband service. If you want to improve the market for broadband, draft […]

Today would have been Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman’s 95th birthday.
Friedman embodied classical liberalism, supporting limited government and fewer taxes.
This video, from the black-and-white days of television, showcases Friedman in his prime, when he was at the University of Chicago. He discusses welfare and Social Security- topics that are incredibly relevant today. It is […]

Recently, Rudy Giuliani stated that the Democratic presidential candidates are trying to turn America into a nanny state.
That’s what makes America great, not this nanny government that Democrats want to give us, where government controls your entire life
He also introduced his health care plan- a non-socialized one. Of course, Comrade John Edwards was against it: […]

On ImWithFred.com Fred Thompson has written a post criticizing the 2005 Kelo v. New London decision that vastly expanded the right of the government to take your property.
It’s said that a man’s home is his castle, but across America some property owners are being rooked by local bureaucrats and politicians and having their private property […]

Listen to field coordinator Joe Hilliard talk about FreedomWorks Pennsylvania.
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Newsweek’s Robert Samuelson points out that entitlement spending will reach 75% of the federal budget by 2030.
Consider the outlook. From 2005 to 2030, the 65-and-over population will nearly double to 71 million; its share of the population will rise to 20 percent from 12 percent. Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid—programs that serve older people—already exceed […]

Hillary Clinton will start a “national academy to train public servants” if elected.
I’m going to be asking a new generation to serve,” she said. “I think just like our military academies, we need to give a totally all-paid education to young men and women who will serve their country in a public service position
I can […]

In a recent article, Robert J. Samuelson discusses the fact that the Baby Boomer generation will force the federal government to pay out of the nose in entitlements for the elderly in the coming years.
The 2030 projections are daunting. To keep federal spending stable as a share of the economy would mean eliminating all defense […]

A good editorial in the Investor’s Business Daily that you should definitely read if you want to learn more about “free” health care. Some highlights…
Swinging open the door, I stepped into a nightmare: the ER overflowed with elderly people on stretchers, waiting for admission. Some, it turned out, had waited five days. The air stank […]