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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand KERSHNER'S COMMENTARY Page 2 The Utah Independent March 20. 1975 READERS The OUTLOOK Independent W re Core: U d.V POLICY NOTICE I Vora.i:v. a?2 7ru:r Lire:,. Hnwunl Kfi'-ri- Free men can vote themselves into slavery, but slaves cannot vote themselves free. . THF TNE Oil. Hi 'p.iee per:":;' appreciate the tact ih.it o.me 'i.r.eet' require more length I: v,:ch rota nee ' the) 'hon'd he 'uhm.tted .t' xvs Aiticle' and u.h m .cl to our reuul.tr ar.d current ed.lor.n! pol.ci-c- ' jg REORGANIZATION OF SALT LAKE COUNTY ATTORNEY S OFFICE hy Thomas O. W Breitling 1 Xev.' items He W: OXI Fully thunk' burn Tin: EDITOR cannot print vour funds. - He fr requests FOR MR. STONES TION ATTEN- Mr. Willis Store The Libert Amendment Committee M13 Frank!:.. Aenue Los Angele. California 9002 t Dear Mr. Stone: have several comments on vour letter which appeared In the I UTAH ISDEPESDEST Februar. 2". I95. of :ate rr. mam reasons for witndrawing m support of the Libert) Amendment movement. I It doe not go far enough in providing for the etfeiis of Fi r- -t let me the repealing Sixteenth Amendment. There i no provi'lon for restoring the original s)tem of balancing taxation with representation. Thi' wii! not be done As things stand automatical!) now in thi' country. the ad- - authorized expenses. In answer to questions Van Dam said that Grundfosen has 14 years administrative experience and that he (Van Dam) sought out Grundfossen to ask him to do this job. The Attorney said he spent eight years in the Criminal Division of the County Attorney's office before . mm The Utah's Largest and Fastest-Growin- Living Ittue i, 7960 Creicnt A ve. ' Buena Park. California 90630 once sr.n:eiy meantime. the it. live 5" Oakland A ver.ue as socialix- - at . Utah 4 1 1 5 l Assorted copies older than months 2 1- I I 25c each rri 25 for S5.00 50 for S9.00 USA S10.00 per year Foreign S15.00 per year i I 100 for SI 7.50 UTAH INDEPENDENT l cat:'. of the whole uncontrolled rne'v 3 Libert) and alm.O't w ithout exception, the) are unaha'hed pr.gma:i'tv The) 1 Narre 1 ;Fts1i (W-3- .ast. e. .! Address Nurcr ! 1 1 have met matt) mend men: supporter', I And StrMt: Su4 .p Code !'.d 1 n. top-heav- ne Subscriptions: The l 12 for S2.75 - for SI. 00 have from this recession-depressioAnd. ves. Americans do havethe kevstothe problems of our nation and the solutions. It is to reverse the y conservatives to do some and see if we are real!) Federal level of government and being consistent. A it is now. we return the operation of our affairs are prett) much stagnant. We will to the broader-buse- d local count) down with our countrv unless governments. Fqually essential, is go we our goals and to all government return method, inornate ourselves by operations belonging to the 50 principle and do what we find is state governments. Our necessary. I his is my concern, and forefmheis realized the dangers of it I have to criticize my friends. an enlarged and centralized will do it because the issue at stake government emanating at the is our freedom and our tcderal level. and theicl'oic detailed nation. am enclosing several the limitations of those in office. editorials, plus copies of other hc'C limitations arc stated quite letters appearing in thc cleailv: national defense, public ; and l Di:ri:DE hope this debt, declaration of war. the right will give von a more complete idea to com m. Micv and regulate the of what I have wiittcn about the value ihcieof. i boil) Amendment. not her area for concern arc I do not oppose the I ibeitv the ticatics made bv officials mendment. and could conscieobligating all Amcticans. Quesntious supp.Mt u hut toi the tion. Vie these ticatics ratified bv reasons have named. oiii t'onciess? Ifnot.vvhv not? It is h'i i ilvmg to think that a man like Sincere!) vourv. Seeictaiv Kissmger and fonner 1icsideui Nixon have committed idctle R Mel auchl.m us to the unacceptable. Ienainlv. Redmond. W.i'hmeton tL''2 ( oiitinual on page S soul-'earehi- it 1 news for President Ford. Roy Ash. Budget Director all and those contradictory Fconomists which is: Yes. the consumer does hold the keys to our I recover) Independent Si!: Like Citv AMERICANS HAVE KEYS In the Letter to the Fditor: Subscription Weekly g by iv iding my comment on will know of Kershners by OEO. Continued on page 6 J r payer is picked bare. Rapid progress is being made in that direction. The government is taking just about twice as much money from some and giving it to others as it did only seven years ago. At that time, the take was $89 billion a year. Now it has grown to $166 billion. Our bones are being picked all right and there is every indication that the process will accelerate. Right now about five American families in the private sector are supporting one family that works for government. If present trends continue to the end of the century, one family in the private sector will be supporting two working for government. Obviously, this is impossible. A change has to come. Senator Helms said on the floor of the Senate recently, There are now 72.5 million Americans supported by some kind of government program . . ." Some of these are pensioners who also work and contribute something to production. In the main, however, Senator Helms is right when he says that this enormous number of people are supported by the 71.9 million Americans who are currently employed by the private sector." Senator Helms went on to say that more people "... are riding the wagon than pulling it. There is another phase of this matter not covered by Senator Helms. Many Americans, probably several million, are employed by private nonprofit organizations which receive funding from government agencies. According to Howard Phillips in Human Events, January 18, 1975, for example, for every one person working for the government Office of Economic Opportunity there are more than 100 working in numerous private organizations that are funded want to print Ma nv TKI TH! l'HE V : people confer upon their governir .he,povc to take money from some and gi- - e it to others, the process will not stop until the last bone of the last tax- W e 11 - AV vcik r.f need' a lad called to Bob Salter' On Tueday. March KSXX program mentioned she had heard that Salt Lake v. County Attorney Paul Van Dam want to hire Pete Grundfossen a a consultant in hi office. The report was that Grundfoen w ould have the title of Intergoxernmen-ta- l Relation Conultant (or Specialit). It was also mentioned that Grundfossen wife now work a Administrative Aitant to City Commisioner Glen Greener. Ip. thi job he ues her maiden name, which i Stephanie Peteron. The caller raised the question of what qualifications Pete Grundfoen might have to work in the County Attorney office, and the desirability of team in such key positions in having thi huband-wif- e both city and county government. County Attorney Van Dam was contacted by THE UTAH ISDEPESDEST and several questions were presented to him. Mr. Van Dam confirmed that he has requested permission to hire Pete Grundfossen. but the job It will be title is to be Administrative Consultant. Grundfossen task to urey administrative procedures and function in the County Attorneys office and to recommend ways to improve such procedures and functions. He will study the flow of paper to see if improvements can be made which will decrease response time. Van Dam feels that response time by his office to other County offices especially needs improvement. The County Attorney feels that Grundfosen help for one to two hours a day for two months should get the necessarv job done. The sussested rate for the service is w w S10 an hour. Based on 44 working days at S20 a day the cost to County taxpayer w ill be SS80 plu. of course, any 1 Those who have houo:economic affairs through First Law. When a self go v. |