John Shadegg
John Shadegg
John Barden Shadeggis the former U.S. Representative for Arizona's 3rd congressional district, serving from 1995 until 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth22 October 1949
CountryUnited States of America
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We need to take retirement savings out of the hands of the politicians who are squandering it and give it back to the American people.
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But with a rate of return of 1.6 percent or less, or a negative rate of return, our children and our grandchildren, if we do not make changes, will in fact not have a secure retirement. Indeed, they will not have the funds when they go to retire to even minimally get by.
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Indeed, I think most Americans now know that in 1935 when Social Security was created, there were some 42 Americans working for every American collecting retirement benefits.
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Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this premise, that is, that we would tax workers to pay retirement benefits for those retired.
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I think we need an idea person. It's something we've been missing for a long time.
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We got elected on an agenda of limited government, individual responsibility, a free-market economy, and a strong national defense. We need to demonstrate right now that that's what we're about, and we can get it done, ... Face the Nation.
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The other two candidates are good people but neither one of them would bring real reform.
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There is no margin for error in our energy supply,
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Under current law, there is no additional penalty for someone who enters the United States illegally and then commits either a crime of violence or a drug trafficking offense. They simply come under the same penalty as we have in current law.
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While the system runs a short-term surplus today, we collect more in Social Security taxes than we pay out today in Social Security benefits.
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Everything from cars to DVD players to fruits and vegetables are cheaper and better because of the free flow of trade with other nations.
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Both of us understand that real reform means more than tightening bureaucratic rules; it means fundamental changes to the way Congress does business.
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We already have defections from the Blunt list, and we expect more. Vote counts in this sort of race are notoriously inaccurate. I am in this race to the finish.
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We all know that by spending the Social Security surplus year after year, Congress is stealing from our children and grandchildren,