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Show LETTER TO CLIPPER Washington Help Cleans Control From Washington Government by the people for the people and not government for individual profit and or grandeur. IF CONCURRENT terms of senators and congressmen were limited to perhaps three they probably would not attain at-tain the power that is possible at present. Lobbyists would be forced to convince law makers that the product for sale was in the best interests of a targe segment of voters. Control of a spreading bureaucracy is vital. Every time a bill is passed it seems as though another bureau is born. The result is someone's buddy is appointed to head up the organization and then down the line more and more buddies are appointed to run the store. A CLASSIC example is the recent appointment of Mrs. Joan Baden to consumer's affairs af-fairs coordinator for the state department. Mrs. Baden's job is described as "thruput." This new word is said to be the distance or time between input and output. As yet no one has been able to find out what kind of consumers the State Department has. We spend 42 million dollars on accounted-for travel junkets. Agency budgets' ranging from 22' million to 400 million dollars are crawling with cutable fat. Unnecessary travel could cut most budgets by as much as 25 percent. Many projects, as recently reported, serve no useful purpose but are merely make work (WPA) programs. A RECENT article stated that federal control is actually in the hands of a few people behind the scenes. Nixon's gang were babes in the woods by comparison. Local politicians complain about states rights. They continually con-tinually turn to "Big Brother" in Washington to help solve their financial problems. THE MORE help received from Washington the fewer controls are exercised by local government. A goodly number of dollars are also eaten in the shuffle of funds to and from Washington. If all local governments were compelled to become fiscally responsible then it would be harder for politicians poli-ticians to build empires by feathering the nests of cronies. Thousands of little people must work and scrimp to pay all these bills. ANOTHER fallacy is revenue sharing which is an uncertain method of budgeting. budget-ing. Halley Thomas |