FreedomTalks

As the Democrat candidates for president spend more time in Pennsylvania these next couple of weeks, it will be interesting to see what they spend their time talking about.
So far, the campaign has focused quite a bit on identity politics, character, change and experience. Much of the bickering has had nothing to do with […]

FreedomWorks’ best allies on the issue of personal accounts for retirement security is the student group S4. They have done a magnificent job taking their message to Congress and the presidential candidates over the past few years. I watched this group form and grow, and I have to say that there dedication to their cause […]

Steve Chapman wonders why the presidential candidates aren’t more interested in the nation’s finances:
It’s good to know they are preparing themselves for that 3 a.m. phone call. But I’m not convinced any of them is ready for the 8 a.m. call from the budget director reporting that the deficit is raging out of control. […]

For the children? Perhaps not. In the Washington Post, Robert Samuelson casts a skeptical eye on the current crop of presidential candidates and their promises to take care of the children.
Our children face a future of rising taxes, squeezed — and perhaps falling — public services and aging — perhaps deteriorating — public […]

The SMART act of 2007, a proposal to expand choice and ensure stability in Medicare and Social Security, was introduced at the recent FreedomWorks Liberty Summit. Here’s Dick Armey talking about why it needs to be passed right away.

At his blog, New York Times op-ed columnist Paul Krugman accuses journalists of playing “gotcha” games with past quotes rather than debating facts and figures– the substance, he says — of pertinent issues.  In typical big-paper fashion, he doesn’t name his target, but it’s obvious that he’s responding to Ruth Marcus of the Washington […]

The Washington Post writes that Hillary has no plan for fixing social security.
At an AARP forum for presidential candidates in Iowa two weeks ago, Ms. Clinton dismissed the “people on the other side of the aisle who never wanted us to have Social Security and Medicare” and who “run around all the time sounding […]

Talking about Social Security, Hillary Clinton has taken to bashing privatization and has all but admitted she plans to raise taxes:
Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton promised retirees that if elected president she will not cut Social Security benefits, raise the retirement age or privatize the taxpayer-funded systemhe New York senator told the AARP’s legislative conference that […]

David Walker thinks the U.S. is facing a fiscal and moral crisis similar to that which brought down the Roman Empire in the 5th century.
The US government is on a ‘burning platform’ of unsustainable policies and practices with fiscal deficits, chronic healthcare underfunding, immigration and overseas military commitments threatening a crisis if action is not […]

Our members in North Carolina gathered to ask three important questions about the death tax, retirement security and global warming. I will post the other two later today or next week.