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Show spendthrift government destruction As surely as night follows day, we can look forward for-ward to a steady growth and proliferation of government govern-ment spending programs and their corollary expanding ex-panding government authority. The President, in effect, ef-fect, mapped the foregoing prospect for 1968 in his State of the Union message. He also noted that the economic outlook is one of steady growth. Only time will tell how long steady economic growth can take place when more and more of the productive energies of a people are absorbed by the nonproductive paraphernalia of a welfare state Whose demands rise faster than our ability to produce taxes. Even as the- President was proposing a record spending spend-ing and taxation program, Associated Press reports were telling of Great Britain's efforts to get its non-p-oducive financial house- in order by reducing spending spend-ing for housing, education, free medicine and social security. Not only are the benefits of Britain's welfare state being reduced, but the people have been warned that stiffer taxes are coming to keep wages and profits pro-fits down. Britain, according to the reports, is ". . . shrinking the dimensions of the welfare state because-the because-the nation could not pay -the bill." The U. S. has apparently ap-parently yet to realize that the cost of government can go beyond the ability of a people to pay. |