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GAO head David Walker has become so fed up with Washington’s runaway spending and lack of action on entitlement reform that he is leading a ‘wake up’ tour outside the beltway to bring to light these growing problems to voters. The goal is to get the presidential candidates to begin debating and discussing these issues [...]

This video of Bureacrash is hillarious. Kind of exposes the left’s ignorance of Ponzi schemes.

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At an event at the New Hampshire Institute of Art yesterday, presidential candidate Mitt Romney voiced his support for personal retirement accounts after fielding a question from Students for Saving Social Security:
“Personal accounts would be a big plus.” Romney said it would be a good idea to use the Social Security trust fund to allow [...]

Chairman Armey authored an op-ed on Social Security that appeared on Fox News today.
Here is the article.
If Social Security is such a great program, why is it mandatory?
As the ’08 election cycle begins in earnest, few see any prospects for Social Security reform. However, a deal to “fix” the problem may be closer than we [...]

On a conference call today, Republican Study Committee Members Marsha Blackburn, John Campbell and Jeb Hensarling announced that they will be outlining an American Taxpayer Bill of Rights on Wednesday at a press conference in Washington.
The congressmen told grassroots leaders and bloggers that they will outline four themes of fiscal conservatism, including stopping the raid [...]

Various newspapers around the state are taking notice of the work we have been doing in South Carolina recently.
Check out GoUpstate.com to read about our recent breakfast with Congressman Duncan Hunter.

Here is the link.
Today, in the Social Security debate, the pain caucus emphasizes the unfunded liabilities of Social Security. It is even willing to offer Democrats a tax increase for some concession on the benefit side. For this group, Social Security reform is mainly about balancing the Social Security budget.
Meanwhile, today’s turks want to focus [...]

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 [...]

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.