The Texas Young Republican Federation has their annual leadership conference this weekend at the historic Menger Hotel in downtown San Antonio, almost right across from the Alamo. Our speakers on various topics include: Rene Diaz, newly appointed judge on the 224th Civil District Court who formerly was a partner at Brock & Person, P.C. and also General Counsel to the Republican Party of Texas; newly appointed commissioner Elizabeth Ames Jones of the Texas Railroad Commission and formerly district 121st state representative; congressman Mike Conaway of the 11th district, who is a CPA by trade; and Bill Noble who is the man that runs the 72-hour ground game in Texas. My flight back to Dallas was 18:40 so I missed the talk about the media factor by Sherry Sylvester. The more I fly Southwest, the better I like them.

We were talking about Social Security and taxes and there was an interesting question to congressman Conaway about how many CPA there are among 435 members of the US House of Representatives. The answer is among Republicans, there are congressman E. Clay Shaw from the 22nd district of Florida and congressman Mark Kennedy from the 6th district of Minnesota.

The Democrats are crying that personal accounts is the equivalent of gambling but they forget to mention that all teachers, university professors and federal employees do not put their 12.4% into the Social Security "Trust" Fund but rather personal retirement accounts. The employees of Galveston county, Texas also opt-out of paying the Social Security or payroll tax when they still had a chance and are doing much better than the rest of us.