Show Consorting With Thieves Time for Us to Get Some SomeI I I Of Our Lost Dough w Back hack By Frederick C. C Othman WASHINGTON Seems to lo lome tome tome me that Ive I've been spending most of oC my waking hours lately consorting con consort S 0 r t ing with r t thieves hie ve s alleged al aI- al- al f thieves r and r f tors lors of thieves R f Mostly l they a l l have had their p jJ hands in my pockets and y yours and that thatis 1 J is one reason I have not be- be Mr Othman come bored with such a steady diet of lamentable characters I am beginning to believe now that the time has come for us taxpayers to get gel back some of our dough So far we haven't received a dime You who read these pieces nieces know what Im I'm talking about Crooked tax collectors high- high binding purveyors of merchandise merchandise merchandise mer mer- chandise to lo the military an assistant assistant assistant as as- attorney general who liked mink coats federals federal s tv who ho allowed weevils to get millions of oC dollars' dollars worth of grain hotshots hotshots hotshots hot- hot shots who made multimillion- multimillion dollar profits in government oil tankers low-lifers low who shipped goods for profit to the Chinese Communists and stupid bureaucrats bureaucrats bureaucrats bu bu- bu- bu who merely wasted our money because that was the easy way vay Veritable Pa Pageant Since the first of the year there has been a veritable pageant pageant cant of deplorable operators making their excuses to an assortment assortment assortment as as- of congressional committe com com- mitte s. s Two of them including the tax collectors at St St. Louis and Boston have gone to jail for taking bribes from those who hated to pay their just taxes Several others have bave been indicted indicted in in- dieted on perjury charges growing out of the Housing hocus hocus-pocus w h hie i c h halone halone halone alone cost us taxpayers 37 A number of others have been fired from federal jobs both bolh high and low But the money which we taxpayers taxpayers taxpayers tax tax- payers lost seems to have gone down the drain Nobody paid us for the pounds of ham that spoiled at the San Diego Cal naval post the coffee that the Army used as a sweeping compound in a Kentucky barracks barracks barracks bar bar- racks or the worth of grain that disappeared from federal warehouses Loss Fabulous The total loss from cheating poor old and sometimes softheaded softheaded softheaded soft soft- headed Uncle Sam is fabulous It runs into the hundreds of millions and even into the billions billions billions bil bil- bil- bil lions if you include the mere waste along with the pure this is a new way to lo use that word thievery Man after man Ive I've watched den deny everything e until confronted confronted confronted con con- fronted with evidence that couldn't be denied Ive I've heard testimony about them rece receiving receiving ing bribes of television sets Holy Bibles cameras airplane rides hams hotel suites jam dam automobiles summer cottages collages and cash The cash payments u us usually s u a 11 y were complicated mostly involved commissions on sales of insurance and once an airplane So far on the record by our own count are five mink coats ranging from the one that went to a White House secretary to the one that a a year revenue revenue revenue rev rev- agent had in his closet in New York Some cynics claim the current current current cur cur- rent sunburst of investigations is a matter mailer of politics Others insist that stealing from Uncle is nothing new There is merit to both of these ideas but it doesn't make this shorn close-shorn taxpayer feel any better beller If Uncle could latch on to lo a billion or so that the handed to the he it il would show up on the tax bills of us usall all I |