We had a great time at Saturday's Candidate Forum. Thanks to everyone who came out!

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The most urgent challenge facing our nation is fixing a federal budget that has, by any reasonable measure, become insane. Each one of us owes over $40,000 in federal debt that no reasonable person would have allowed to grow to its present level.

In this paper I will show:

• How out of control our spending is
• How our debt is jeopardizing our ability to carry out international goals of promoting peace through democracy
• That federal spending isn't growing just to keep up with inflation
• That its growth far exceeds increases in household income
• How dangerously close we are to serious economic catastrophe based on several measures of economic stability.
• That it is the so-called "mandatory" spending items—social spending—that is driving the federal budget

I will conclude by offering six specific common-sense initiatives that need to be pursued—and that I will pursue—to turn us away from politics as usual and to return America to economic strength through a reduced federal government.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Springdale, AR, February 15, 2010—Brigadier General Bernie Skoch, Republican candidate for the Third District of Arkansas in the U.S. House of Representatives, issued the following statement today regarding entry of other candidates into that race.