Show 4 J I Blowing Your Money I t to 4 THERE fare thousands of ways Uncle Sam co could ld economize Heres Here's one Government departments and bureaus figure out how much money they'll need Under the new budget system Director Dawes looks over these estimates and recommends to the president cuts he thinks advisable This recommendation goes to congress Maybe congress cuts appropriations appropriations appropriations a accordingly cordingly Maybe not Doesn't make much difference for the departments a arid d bureaus are accustomed to go ahead and spend all they want to Then they say Here are some bills I didn't have money to pay Slip me the jack And congress has to rush through a deficiency JJ Its It's like reducing the cash allowance of a spendthrift wife then thell giving her unlimited charge accounts accounts' There cant can't be any real in economy government government government govern govern- ment until every department and bureau is compelled compelled com corn to live within its allowance Dawes sees this Hes He's just sent word to every department that it must furnish monthly statements of its expenditures He wants to nail them before they get too far in th tha hole If this overspending were going on in any of the big corporations the boss would soon stop it Hed He'd either fire the department department department depart depart- ment heads or tell them therm if they didn't k keep p within bounds they'd have to pay the difference out of their own pockets That's what a sane Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington would do Politics prevents it But Dawes sees the evil Hes He's on the right track trying to stop it And he can stop it it-if it if you and arid other taxpayers back him up |