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Show representatives in Conpre , need to keep the statutory , V( on the national bedt where t E and perhaps fix a peacetime ing for the Federal pay ..cl-about ..cl-about 1,500,000 civilian L? at ployees from the 2,365,000 pay roll. This would save approximately $2-billion. $2-billion. (2) reduce by one-third the force of 1,680,000 American GIs overseas in 49 foreign countries. This would save $6-billion (this overseas force is now costing us $18 4-billion. (3) cut $2.5-billion or Si-billion from the $5.4-billion requested re-quested for "military and economic" econ-omic" aid to foreign governments. KEDFCE FAY KOLL These cuts would total $10.5-bil-lion and only $2,9-billion in cuts are needed to balance the budget. Probably the healthist of all these cuts would be in the pruning of the Federal pay roll. Of the approximately approxi-mately 60-million American system sys-tem would be more vital and our economy healthier if this were cut to 1 federal employee to every 50 employees in private enterprise. The present Administration hasn't really begun to carry out tiie expectations of the American public until the Federal pay roll is cut below 2.000,000 civilion employees. em-ployees. And the time to cut is now! However, it is apparen; that such a reduction won't be made unless citizens,' in the tens of thousands, demand it of their I &OOXINg j$g AXZAJ) "tkS GEORGE S. BENSON A-pttiidtit-Hiiriut eincjt I SiW.ArliMia NO MOKE DEBT, PLEASE The American taxpayers are being told by the Administration's budget- makers in Washington that" government expenses cannot be cut to the estimated $62.6 billion bil-lion which the Fedral government will receive in taxes for the 1954-55 1954-55 fiscal year. Threfore another year of operating on borrowed money is proposed. This means lifting the national debt above the $275-billion statutory limit, inflating inflat-ing the currency, and again making mak-ing the taxpayers pay interest on borrowed money to operate the government. It means other things none of them pleasant to Uiink about. By requisting a spending program pro-gram of $65.6-biUion for 1955, the Administration is telling the taxpayers, tax-payers, in a sense, that 2,365,000 people must be kept on the Federal Fed-eral pay roll, that comparatively few of the 1,680,000 Americans serving in the armed services overseas over-seas can be cut off the multi-billion-dollar pay roll and' maintenance mainten-ance budget and that we must continue con-tinue to send $5. 4-billion a year in ' military and economic" aid money mon-ey to foreign governments. HEAVY CUTS EXPECTED When war seems less likely than at any time in recent years, there seeme little justification for declaring de-claring that our government can t operate on 562,642,000,000, especially espec-ially when there are so many places where common sense economy econ-omy would save billions. It is my conviction that the American people expected come drastic cut-tin" cut-tin" of governmental evpenses by thenew Administration. The campaign cam-paign promises were for drastic cutting. Just a few months before his untimely death, I sat with Senator Robert Taft in his Office Building. He had become the Administration's Administra-tion's wheel horse. "Our first job," Senator Tatt said to me, "is to balance the budget. bud-get. After I conferred with General Gener-al Eisenhower in New York early in the campaign, my statement promised a balanced budget for 1653-54, and further reductions m expenditures of $10-billion, to a total of a $60-billion budget, in the fiscal vear 1955., That was the program ot the Administration. Yet the 1953-54 budget was $3.3-billion $3.3-billion out of balance; and the proposed pro-posed 1954-55 budget calls for approximately ap-proximately $3-billionof deficit spending. UP TO CONGRESS The job for Congress is to whittle whit-tle about $3-billion of the $65.6-billion $65.6-billion expenditures recommended in President's budget messoge. Would that be so difficult? Not if hard headed common sense is applied ap-plied and petty political expediency expedien-cy is ignored. The vast majority of the American people want the Federal government's expenses drastically cut; they want the budget bud-get balanced now. Any political pressure sidetracking these sound 'objectives is not Important, in my opinion, to the political future of any present office holder. Here are just a few places where some money can be saved: (1) cut 365,000 civilian government em- |