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Show The Paper That Dares To Take THE PROFOUND DIFFERENCE THE NEWS A February 10, 1977 The Utah Independent Page 5 Stand VI The Birch Log M SUBNATIONAL GOVERNANCE Inflation and the Federal Reserve WHATS THAT? ...The Richmond carried a front page story by Times-Dispat- ch New York Times Service reporting the warnings of the man who played the central role in convincing the U.S. intelligence community to take a more realistic view of Soviet Union military capability and intentions. That man is Maj. Gen. George J. Keegan, Jr., the retiring Air Forces chief of intelligence. Keegan, who was graduated from Harvard and holds a masters degree in international studies The from George Washington University, did not equivocate: the Soviets, he said, have already achieved military superiority. Today, because of the civil defense measures in the U.S.S.R., he said, I believe the United States is incapable of carrying out its assigned wartime retaliatory tasks of crippling the Soviet industrial economy, the essential civilian-militar- y leadership, nuclear stockpiles and the basic fighting capacity of the U.S.S.R. Our doves maintain that we have sufficient nuclear capability to destroy the Soviets several times over. But that is predicated upon being able to destroy, with nuclear missiles, their offensive capability and their industrial economy. May. Gen. Keegan gave The Times Service a three-hointerview, in which he cited hard evidence to support his views thousands of photographs, ur open-sourc- e documents, intelligence estimates, et cetera. The Soviets, he said, have "hardened some 35,000 installations military, industrial, and personnel. These include 75 underground command posts for the civil military leadership within the Moscow Beltway. Some of these structures, he said, are several hundred feet deep and wide and capable of withstanding 1,000 pounds per square inch of blast pressure. Other hardened sites include headquarters of all major military services, duplicate reserve installations for each, and for the entire nuclear chain of command. In addition, he said, the Soveits have hardened, 10,000 surface-to-a- ir missile defense sites and are in the process of hardening more than 4,500 battlefield early warning and ground control intercept radars. It was the Soviet civil defense program which disturbed him most, however, for in it found concrete evidence that the Reds were preparing for war preparing to protect as many as 60 million workers against nuclear retaliation. Maj. Gen. Keegan also noted that the Soviets have been storing huge amounts of grain in bunkers the size of several football fields on the perimeters of all major cities. Intelligence has established, he said, that 25 percent of Soviet factory workers are in training programs perparing them for civil defense leadership roles. In addition, the Soviet rulers have dispersed alternate defense manufacturing facilities in areas beyond major industrial concentrations, even at a 25 percent loss of efficiency, in order to guarantee their continued operation in wartime. The civil defense program was the decisive turning point in my judgment that we had already Copyright Jo Hindman 1977 An even more radical advocated by some, is the change, creation of an entirely new intergovernmental agency com- management, liaison, and responsibilities. Such a ACIR reportedly adopted a general policy statement urging the creation of a central management mechanism to control the sub-bini- ng national governances aforemen-operatin- g tioned. by John F. McManus As Belmont, Massachusetts 1976 ended and the New Year bounced into being, economic forecasters joined their peers from other professions in crystal Typical of their view of was an inflation foggy editorial in the December 30, 1976 Wall Street Journal which praised the Ford Administration for lowering the inflation rate to about five percent. The problem was that the editorialist clearly equated inflation with a rise in the Consumer Price Index which it is not. When (C.P.I.) the C.P.I. and inflation are ball-gazin- g. billion. Simple arithmetic shows us, therefore, that in one years time the amount of currency in circulation had been increased by $117.2 billion. The annual rate of inflation was therefore over ten percent slightly (10.03). unit either a cabinet-levinsufficient The Government Responsible illegally office or an state of Inflation lowers the value of ACIR governing board then department and local governmental affairs proceeded to its currency, and unless other economic forces compensate for within the Executive Office of the violation of another section of the loss in value of money, inPresident law ACIRs role which is could...provide prices will rise. But prices are and technical assistance tricted to an advisory capacity also affected by supply, deto subnational governments. Indeed it is (Public Law mand, production efficiency, The above quote comes from that very advisoryship which is etc. For example, if American Perspective protested too long and loudly by equated, Intergovernmental industry becomes ten percent dangerous conseVol. 2, No. 3 (1976) by federal the hypocrites in Congress who more efficient during a period quences are inevitable. ACIR (Advisory Commission on defend and protect the ACIRs when government inflates the fort to turn these United States into C.P.I. and Inflation Relations). currency by ten percent, there The Consumer Price Index is might be no change in prices at Most frightful aspect is that ACIR a nation of regional subnational the cost in dollars of a certain all. But we would still be losers has preempted authority to im- - governances, in many ways, one of which is The original law intended that fixed amount of consumer plement the above recipe for sub- If the cost of these goods that, if production efficiency national governance. the ACIR in performance of its goods. was $100.00 at the beginning of were increased in the absence What are subnational duties should bring 1976, and $105.00 it its end, the of any government-cause- d ingovernances governments? The together.. .provide a forum...en-ten- ( C.P.I. has risen by $5.00 and its flation, prices would go down. 10) present federal regions? Or courage discussion.. .recommend.. rate of yearly increase was five Wouldnt that be nice! river basin regions? Or some other recommend.. .but to recommend percent. But the C.P.I. rate of Simple definitions have been concoction? within the framework of the increase is not the rate of inflaclouded, with the result that the American people blame everyone Nowhere in the United States Constitution not to implement tion, even though roost Ameracbeen conned into icans have but government for the steady Constitution can be found a shred ACIR thinkies. decline in the value of their of validation for the With the muscle of im- cepting this error. to the Inflation, according money. But the government intergovernmental (regional) plementation denied to it by the not a measure of alone controls the amount of forms of governance that are being letter of the law, ACIR coolly dictionary, is all. Websters New currency, and it is the governat used to stuff the holes that have proceeds to implement its prices Twentieth Century Unabridged ment which constantly increases been punched into true recommendations under a hands-o- ff Dictionary (1957) defines it as it in order to cover its wild constitutional government. Inflation: an increase spending spree. The confusion policy protected by Congress. follows: But illegalities are small By special advocates, by pres- in the amount of currency in about the matter exemplified matters to ACIR. For instance, on surized correspondence to congrescirculation, resulting in a relaby the Wall Street Journal edithe face of it, ACIRs 57th and 58th sional staffs, by speakers sent into tively sharp and sudden fall in torial keeps the real solution to inflation in a and hidden. its rise value prices. quarterly meetings were illegal. No the various states, cities, counties In a readily available governmentThis sound and traditional dequorum was present. There were to spread ACIRs radicalism. -produced booklet called inflation ACIRs November 26 Report finition says that only twelve commission members The American Economic Systo lose value, listed present at each. One was on Implementation Activities (see causes money . . . And Your Part In It, tem the an increase in much as quan1976 in Docket Book 59th meeting Dec. held May 20-2tity of any item will lessen the inflation is wrongly defined, Wash.,D.C., the other in Rapid 1976) listed a number of congres- value of that item. and its causes are listed as: (1) sional enactments with the greatest City. South Dakota August spending which stimulates delin1976. Federal Reserve Figures significance and the most direct mand; (2) profit seeking; and On December 23, 1976, the (3) lack of competition between By federal law, thirteen kage to Commission (ACIR) members of the ACIR shall policy. Many of these actions im- Federal Reserve released a table producers. Anyone who accepts listing the amount of currency that will accept government inconstitute a quorum. Unless ACIR plemented recommenACIR tervention in the private sector in one of its swift moves has dations. the report boldly boasted. in circulation at the end of each of the preceding twelve months. in the form of control and regumanaged to get amended the You know them as L.E.A.A. and At the end of November 1976, lation, while the only real cause General Revenue Sharing, both the table tells original law that created it, the the was amount of inflation us, government quorum requirement still extended; also Coastal Zone $1,285.5 billion in currency of all plunges the nation into chaos stands. But represented one management amendments and kinds. The figure for exactly and eventual slavery. absent state governor, the absent others. 1977 The John Birch Society Features one year previous was $1,168.3 of and are not to absent be an 50 States HUD, The Secretary OUR OLD BOMBERS. THEIR NEW CARS coassistant to the U.S. President for pitied. became They Domestic Affairs, all assigned to conspirators when they permitted You dont see many Congressmen driving around in two or on ACIRs board. ACIR action within their positions cars, not even the ones who insist that the Air At the illegal May meeting. Force defend our survival with twenty-an- d thirty-yea- r old 2 bombers, and keep voting against the needed new Breplacements. el long-standi- ng res-format- ion 86-38- 0). 1, 30-3- 1, ber sit-i- ns three-year-o- ld B-5- -l fr- -I - The three basic human loyalties loyalty to God, loyalty to country, and loyalty to family. -- Robert Welch st the strategic balance, he said. O ADVERTISING qfound one. Still, the Ford administration is cut the militarys budget for next year, and the Carter lministration is pledged to cut re-je- sts lat budget even more. 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