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Show WESTERN AMERICANA METRO AREA PROBLEMS by TOM BREITLING PAGE 3 iLpl '.v.y.v.Vi.y! nip Independent Dedicated To The CbnstitutM, Liberty, Morality, and Truth Vol. 7, No. 35 August 26, 1976 25C SajtJLaife City, Utah 84115 WOT ini Our Congressional Scoreboard It would be ever so appropriate in this Bicentennial year to elect a Congress with a philosophy consistent with that of the Founding Fathers. Do your representatives in Washington agree, for example, with Benjamin Franklin? It was Franklin who declared: It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people of their time, to be emh ployed in its service. One tenth! percent Today more than forty-thre- e of total personal income is taken from Americans by government. And wouldn't Thomas Jefferson be disConmayed with the Ninety-Fourt- h gress? It was he who observed that a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. Because we dont have a wise and frugal Congress, this year's average taxpayer D one-tent- must work from January first to The regulation against which we May first just to earn enough money were warned by the Founding Fathers to pay his taxes. Over the year, that cost the average family in 1975 some two thousand dollars. For instance, represents two hours and thirty-nin- e minutes of every eight-hou- r work- the ecology and safety bureaucracy day. social welfare programs have been increased from half of one percent of federal spending just twenty-fiv- e years ago to more than thirty-si- x percent today. And running these programs through Washington is expensive: It costs the people of the State of Florida, for example, $1.46 in taxes to obtain one dollar in grants. Yet federal giveaway policies are so liberal that seventy-fiv- e percent of the population of Puerto Rico receives Food Stamps, just one of more than one thousand Welfare programs. Striking workers and students from wealthy families also collect, and an Agriculture Department study reported an error rate last year of more than. fifty-si- x percent in the Food Stamp program. So-call- ed created by Congress has since 1970 required the addition on new cars of gadgets costing eight hundred dollars per automobile. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a middle-clas- s homeowner with two children required a salary increase of $4,600 from 1971 to 1974, just to hold his own . . . again, because of big and wasteful government. Our Liberal Congress nonetheless insists, for example, that the mail remain a delivery of first-clas- s government monopoly. This is the same Postal Service which this spring even lost the remains of a naval officer scheduled to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Big Government has its thumb in every eye. Little wonder that in a recent poll only nine percent of the people , expressed a great deal of confidence in Congress down more than thirty percent in ten years. . The reason is clear. Fully sixty percent of Americans consider themselves politically Conservative, yet because of the Watergate outrages the current Congress is one of the most Liberal in our nations history. In the pages which follow, we present the cumulative voting records of the 435 Representatives (less vacancies) and 100 Senators. You will note that, as measured by the Conservative Index, the average score of Members of Congress was a pitiful The statistics are detwenty-ninrived from the last three indices (Numbers Seven, Eight, and Nine), which covered sixty key votes in the Ninety Fourth Congress, as published by our sister newsweekly, The Review Of The News. Listed in this American Opinion Congressional Score-boar- d are numerical rank for all Con- - ATTORNEY GENERALS OFFICE PANAMA CANAL BOMBSHELL By Paul Scott Kansas City: A Missouri congresswoman has tossed a bombshell into the hotly debated Panama Canal controversy as delegates at the Republican National Convention prepare to debate the explosive foreign policy issue that sharply divides President Ford and Ronald Reagan. Representative Leonor K. Sullivan (D. Mo.), Chairman of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, has again raised the question of large-scaCuba infiltration in the Panama the Republic of Panama. More specifically, Mrs. Sullivan writes, the reports indicate that Communist agitators, area in a letter directed to President military cadre, and technicians are Ford with copies to the House engaged in the infiltration of Armed Service Committee and the Panamanian in key society House on positions and areas and that the Committee International Relations. party line being spread by those Text of the Sullivan letter is who are infiltrating is clearly being circulated among delegates and directed toward here by Senator Jesse Helms )., wresting control of the Panama who is leading the fight for Canal from the U.S. the Reagan forces to have the THE SEVEN QUESTIONS convention adopt a platform plank In order to clear up the confor continued U.S. fusion and question thatnow exists calling and control over the as to the presence and influence of sovereignty Cuban and other- - communist-oriente- d strategic waterway. The Helms proposal was personnel in the Republic defeated in a close vote within the of Panama, Mrs. Sullivan has adPlatform Committee and is now dressed seven questions to the being taken to Convention floor by President for immediate answers. the supporters of the former These are: California Governor. 1. Does there exist in GOP supporters of President formation or reports to indicate Ford including Vice President that Cuban or other foreign Rockefeller, who supports personnel are now in the Republic Secretary of State Kissingers plan of Panama teaching military or to turn the Canal over to the students guerrilla Panama government, are warfare and terrorist tactics? 2. Does there exist in- vigorously opposing the Helms move. formation or reports to indicate In her letter to the President, that General T orrijos (President of Mrs. Sullivan notes that despite Panama) or members of the recent assurances from the White cabinet of the Panamanian House that there were no Cuban government have been saying in military or'paramilitary personnel formal or informal circumstances known to be in the Republic of that nationalization of the Panama Panama. ..the re continues to be Canal is the ultimate objective of persistent reports emanating from the Panamanian government after the Canal Zone and other locations a new treaty is signed? as to the presence and labors of 3. Does there exist in various types of Cuban and other formation or reports that the personnel within Continued on page 5 le anti-Americ- (R.-N.C.- UTAH lUDEPGHDEKrr 57 Oakland Aveane Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 llteh w rft el M os o e n hcq a, W f pro-Cast- CJ aa b, 00 W o Q as o MH 30 S ft eft j W (4 SZ M cft as 1 SO M (ft non-Panaman- ian ro non-milita- ry an PROVIDES e. -- Cou tinned on page t EMERGENCY ALERT TITLES TO 3 INITIATIVE PETITIONS WHICH WILL BE ON THE BALLOT American Patriots Committee Washington, D.C. 20006 NOV. Dr. Peter Beters Tape No. 14 makes it very clear what each one of us must do. At once. IN YOUR OWN (1) write: Gen. George S. WORDS, Brown, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff, Department of Defense, Washington, D.C. 20301, demanding: that the Armed Services immediately search out, find and BALLOT TITLES FOR INITIATIVE PETITIONS . Pursuant to Utah Code Ann. and in response to your letter of August 4, 1976, the Attorney Generals Office proposes the following ballot titles for the respective, initative referendum destroy the Soviet nuclear petitions: warheads in our coastal waters and A. FREEDOM FROM on Boston Bay, Long COMPULSORY FLUORI- targeted er Island Sound, DATION AND MEDICATION waters, Chesapeake Bay (east of ACT. Pensacola, Florida, Should a law be adopted, the Washington), Galveston, Texas, San Diego, purpose of which shall be: California, Panama Canal, Pearl 1 . To prohibit the State Board Harbor and the hydrogen bombs of Health from adding fluorides in Seal Harbor, Maine; and other medications to any planted Potomac River, Maryland; Mispublic water supply, and sissippi River, north of New 2. To prohibit fluoridation or Orleans; Valdez, Alaska, at the other medication of any public base of the Pipeline. water supply except when that the Joint Chiefs of Staff authorized to do so pursuant to an sever allegiance to all power, ininitiative petition approved by a fluence and pressure within the vote of the majority of the users of U.S.A. that is inimical to the said water supply. survival with dignity of its The question is, should one citizenry, and man or a small group of men have that die Joint Chiefs of Staff the power to tell me their poison is be assured that we, the people, are good for me and then force me to rising from our sleep and are taking take it against my will. This law our government back into our will protect your freedom to hands as our Bicentennial choose your own medication. Vote Celebration. 20-11-- 17, Seattle-Vancouv- YES. (2) PROB. BUDGETARY CEDURES ACT CEILING. Should a law be adopted, the purpose of which shall be: an1. To impose a five-yenual budget oeilingofS91 3,300,000 ar Continued on page 3 Contact your Congressman, relatives, friends and acquaintances. Have them listen to Tape No. 14 and then see that they, too, write letters. DO IT SOON! DO IT FAST! THE DANGER IS GREAT THE TIME IS BORROWED. p |
