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Show Bailie Creek 1 Breeze BY K. B. Nikaloi Lenin, the father of Russian Communism said in 1924, "Some day we shall force the United States to spend itself to destruction." As we muddle through the twenty-seventh year since this pronouncement, many Americans are becoming painfully aware of the nrobable truth of these words. . . ""Si rZ, " r c : .KAR jW. site.-. &j Without firing a single shot, or expending a single soldier, Russia has led us far down the road to national nation-al financial disaster. dis-aster. We are fighting fight-ing an endless non - decision war in Korea, which has already al-ready cost us 90,000 casulties and countless billions in money. Billions of American dollars and thousands of U. S. soldiers have been committed to Europe in an effort to balance the communistic com-munistic pressure in that area of perpetual trouble. The national debt has now reached the staggering sum of $2,000 per capita, and we are adding ad-ding to it at the rate of around two billions every month. Taxes are at an all time high and will soon go higher. Inflation has already reduced the value of the dollar to fifty cents, with a resulting reduction of fifty percent per-cent in the goods and services that can be bought with the tax dollar. National politics is groveling In waste, incompetence, and brazen dishonesty. How long we can continue our bungling - spendthrift policies before be-fore complete economic collapse overtakes us is now just a matter of conjecture. Some economists set it at a few years at most. Whether or not the prediction of Nikolai Lenin comes true depends de-pends on our willingness to make the necessary changes in our foreign for-eign policies and apathetic ways at home. Perhaps our greatest enemy is indifferences. No one seems to care about our rapidly approaching approach-ing national moral and financial bankruptcy; but time is running out the cricis is near. It is the zero hour for every freedom-loving patriot to call a halt here and now, on all the foolishness fool-ishness that has got us in our present dreadful predicament. Our Congressman should be told in no uncertain terms that the time for playing politics is long since past. If they cannot submerge their self-interest in a progarm this is for the welfare of the Country, they should resign re-sign and come home. Nothing is worthwhile except a return to the statesmanship displayed by those who laid the foundations of our beloved democracy. As George Washington said on one of the dark days at Valley Forge, "No one but Americans will be on guard tonight." So long 'til Friday. |