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Show jlJJ The . , I f ri November 1, 1973 i. 1 Paper That Dares To Take A Stand READERS OUTLOOK MARILYN MANION As you know, the economic situation in the country is in serious need of improvement. It is an issue that Congress must act promptly on if we are to restore the health of withdraw from the world; the other countries will not leave us alone. Either were going to be a power for good, a power the nation's economy.' 1 appreciate receiving your Please thoughts and opinions. of informed continue to keep me your views on issues facing Congress. With all best wishes. Sincerely, Wayne Owens Erma, for such a Thanks, thoughtful piece. As you know, we agree on many things, disagree on some others. A PROBLEM AND ITS SIMPLE SOLUTION for stability upon the globe, Dear Editor: Liberals who propose that we make drastic cuts in our defense spending (our enemies now being our friends) do not economic balance in this country is to decide once and for all that there are limits on what the 'Federal Government have can spend. the poor taxpayers empty pockets in mind. These benevolent social engineers would use the money saved" to pour into projects at home poverty, public housing, and what have you. Its a neat little proposal until you discover that our - military spending, as a percentage of the national budget, has already gone way down, while social welfare spending is way up. Senator James Buckley of New York had some pertinent things to say about these matters when Dean Clarence Manion interviewed him on a recent Manion Forum radio , broadcast. To wit: There is one overall, continuing thing, and that is the heed to keep expenditures within our means. We are now seeing the effect of chronic overspending the in Im terribly concerned over the mood in the Congress today about withdrawing from the world cannot We in withdrawing, call it instability, we can only or, maintain credible foreign if we have the military policies strength to back it up. This will mean more spending on basic items of hardware, on research and development. People tend to forget that strength has never caused a war. It is weakness that has caused a war - so long as you have aggressive nations around. Soviet Union understands this. They The understand that if become so powerful, they vis-a-v- is inflationary pressures that are the constantly conventional terms or nuclear up cropping everywhere. Unfortunately, the response that has been made by the Congress is the wrong response. People have been going after the symptoms of inflation and not the causes. You hear proposals to return to price controls and wage controls. As we have seen, they havent worked; they dont work. They create shortages. They will create blackmarkets if maintained too long. What we "have to get the public to understand and I think the public does understand it is that the only way were going to restore . - - All those big increases in profits weve heard" so much about, still do not add up to even SVi cents on a dollar of sales, while every year even under the 5.5 guidelines pay increases amount to 5V4 cents per dollar of wages. United States, terms, in other inevitably countries, including Western European countries, will feel that they have no choice but to accomodate to the Soviet c r policy. -- American Way Features Newspaper editorials can be interesting, if only to exemplify a dangerous but standard practice of today bypassing the Constitution of the United States, as though it had long ago dried up and blown away and been forgotten. 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Let those who think the money so important resign their jobs and let real patriots replace them. No country with the leadership primarily interested in making money from public office will long prosper or maintain its solvency and independence. It is high time to return to honor in public affairs and to patriotic service to ones country. reorganize the government and bring it closer to the people. He sketches attempts by earlier presidents of this century to bring the bureaucracy to heel, and declares that President Nixons plan is in for tough sledding. He says that Presidents Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman and Johnson tried to make the Federal Government more efficient". He also describes efforts of the Hoover Continued on page Utai Independent 'Page COMMENTARY Continued from page 2 KERSHNER-ROW- Continued From Page 3 Bottle of the Budget 7 0r ir |