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Show fit's oiir business! I It's high time to apply some good old - fashioned American horse sense to the problem of government gov-ernment spending. The Administration proposed that the Federal government spend four times what it spent in 1939. We all know here's a big public debt that our veterans deserve the best. We all know that the armed forces must be kept in first-class shape. But here we are, in one of the most prosperous years of our history his-tory yet the Administration's original plans allowed practically nothing for paying off the debt. The Administration figured that it had to spend practically every cent it hoped to take in. So, in spite of terrific taxes in spits of the fact that employment em-ployment and national income are at all-time highs, we weren't getting get-ting ahead of the game at all. WHY? It is not only the armed forces and interest on the debt and benefits bene-fits for veterans that cost money. It's like Atty. Gen. Tom Clark put it a while back when he was testifying tes-tifying before the Senate Civil Service Committee : "In the Government," he said, "it seems like the more people you have working for you, the more money you make. So nobody ever wants to get rid of any of his staff." In other words, it means money in the pockets of the heads of bureaus bu-reaus and agencies and sections to hold on to all employees they can, whether they're needed or not. The budget was trimmed somewhat some-what and Congress passed a bill to reduce taxes. It's up to the public pub-lic to back up Congressmen who tried to cut expenditures. After all, it's the public's money that is being spent. It's up to the public to let Uncle Sam know that he has to watch the pennies in Washington Wash-ington as the householder has to watch his pennies at home that he has to balance his budget just the same as the householder has to balance his or go bust. |