Step One Every member of Congress who believes participation in Social Security should be MANDATORY needs an opponent who believes participation in SS should be a matter of individual choice. It's the difference between freedom and becoming wards of the state who are serfs.
Step Two This is how we find and elect the candidates for step one.
The time for implementing some of these steps for the 2012 election has unfortunately passed. But there is a lot that can be done to have a HUGE impact on the 2012 election.
Americans have a chance to CHANGE the course of our country by defeating Obama in November. Defeating Obama would only be half the battle for changing the course of our country. Romney would shrink the deficits and be better for business, but in complete contrast to Ronald Reagan ("Government is not the solution to our problems; government is the problem"), Romney believes government is part of the solution to our country's problems rather than being the problem itself.
The other half of the solution for changing the course of the country is to convince Mitt Romney that Ronald Reagan was right. Who could do this and how? Jim Robinson and FreeRepublic could be the catalysts that jump start the process. If enough Freepers ask Jim Robinson to make this a FreeRepublic priority, convincing Romney to adopt Ronald Reagan as his role model would make Romney far more electable and the CHANGE WOULD BE REAL.
The solution for complex problems which can be so large as to be seemingly impossible can sometimes be amazingly simple if the right people decide to apply themselves and just do it.
Even for people 55+, there should be an option to get out of the system if you choose.
One thing we absolutely do NOT do is to allow a conservative SENATOR to become Romney’s running mate. Choose any other conservative, but not Rubio, Johnson, Paul, etc. because we NEED them in the Senate. Don’t take one of the 25 most influential people in the U.S. and make one of them the most un-influential person in goverment (veep).
Really?
Mitt Romney’s Dismal Record
"As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal."
[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]
God help America.
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