Show People Say By Telegram Readers Answer to Proposal For Subsidizing Steak Editor Telegram A contributor contributor contributor contrib contrib- to your column People Say signed his letter A Poor Citizen After reading his letter I am sure he is better able to classify classify classify clas clas- himself than he is to analyze analyze analyze ana ana- the reason why steaks are 1 per lb instead of as they were in 1941 He suggests that his grocer be subsidized to the extent of per lb so that he can buy steak He says Id ClId like to ask everyone in favor of it to send send in a letter saying so Obviously you will get et a lot lotof lotof lotof of letters agreeing with this person So to make the record clean THIS LETTER IS NOT ONE OF THEM Just how stupid can some people be Doesn't he realize that his very suggestion is symbolic symbolic symbolic sym sym- bolic of the reason WHY steaks are 1 per lb instead of Doesn't he realize that such pressure groups as he is trying to start arc are responsible for the high prices on many of the products which which-we pay two and anda a half times as much for today as we did in 1941 Just who does this person expect will pay the other He would undoubtedly say Why the government of course course AND AND Just Just who does docs he think is the government Even those who admit that they are A CIA Poor Citizen by signing their letters letters letters let let- as such cannot avoid paying paying paying pay pay- ing that Actually he lie will pay instead of so his steak will cost him instead instead in in- stead of the present 1 11 He will pay the grocer for a pound of steak and feel fine about It BUT BUT he he will pay more to the government in the form of taxes who in turn will pay to the grocer and furnish a plush job for a bureaucrat who will get the other as part of his salary to run the T P O F-C-O-F S O S F or the or-the the Bureau to Pre Prevent ve n t Grocers From Charging Over Forty Cents For Steak This man is just as much apart a apart apart part of the government as the theman theman man who can afford to pay 1 per lb for steak There is a question in my mind whether or not A Poor Citizen even took the trouble to vote last election O. O M. M V V. |