Let's keep this sort:

Democratic Rep. Bill Owens has pledged not raise the retirement age for Social Security, according to the Progressive Change Campaign Committee. (Don't know when it was signed, but a source came across it today.)

Republican Matt Doheny has pledged not to raise taxes.

And we have a $15 trillion national debt.

Anyone else see a problem here?

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