| Show T And J 1 I Ir Inflation I Cussing the OPA has been a n na national na- na national i i pastime Even though it has been Leen modified it receives few kind words words' All of which is nat nat- natural natural natural ural in a country that dislikes die die- tation of any kind The only hitch is the inconsistency in the reason reasoning crit crit- ing fug of many of OPAS OPA'S violent ics i s. s They forget that the thing that make the OPA in the first place i iwas was uncontrolled government def def- Deficits year car after year have cheapened our money OPA was hired to soften the inevitable blow Its original origin ll purpose was to pre pre- prevent prevent i vent economic disruption of the war effort After the war indulged in very cheap punitive trick im imaginable im- im imaginable to hide the effects of in in- increased increased creased cost of production and ris ris- rising ing fog prices But it could no more morea a stem the tide than it could freeze the rising of the sun each morning because the public debt contin cantin- continues tics ues to increase to this day Many of the people who belabor be be- belabors belabor labor labors the OPA OP A most viciously are th cs s who applaud when i Viral ral government builds a I I hundred d million dollar electric power dam or indulges in in some other useless project which puts a afew afew afew few more names on the public pay roll Members of Congress actu actu- actually actually ally brag while the countr county gers gels under unprecedented debt of 1 the public money that they have havet t secured for their districts They brag of their un tin ing the solvency of the Federal government and are re-elected re by bythe bythe bythe the OPA haters for their achieve achieve- achievements achievements ments As long as the public debt con con- continues continues continues to rise there will be terri tern terrific lie fie pressure for Federal dictatorial control over the free market The longer the people submit to such control the harder it will be to preserve liberty and the American type of representative government Finally if the deficits continue this country will have what has hasi i come to be known as European in in- inflation I. I Elation in spite of the fact that we think we are too big and too smart sma to permit such foolishness |
