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Show YOUR STAKE IN THE DOLLAR With a record amount of life insurance in their name, the American Am-erican people have everything at stake in the United States dollar. Figures show that our population popula-tion of 155,000,000 owns 200,000,-000 200,000,-000 life policies of seven major types. The aggregate value is $234,000,000,000. This can only mean that the great bulk of the people have placed their faith in the security of the American dollar. dol-lar. And yet the government continues to devaluate the dollar through uncontrolled spending. I In the six years which ended with 1951, the federal government govern-ment will have collected more taxes by $8,400,000,000 than it collected in the entire previous history of the country. And the public debt has reached $257,-000,000,000. $257,-000,000,000. Then, as if this strain were not enough on the stability of the dollar, the situation is made more perilous by the government's govern-ment's spending billions of dollars dol-lars on socialistic ventures in direct di-rect bpposition to highly taxed private industry. This socialization socializa-tion has gained such momentum in the United States that it is no longer considered an incidental expense of government. The cost, direct and indirect, is a substantial substan-tial part of today's huge budgets. bud-gets. The government cannot go on socializing taxable industry and business, and spending so excessively, exces-sively, without destroying pri- vate enterprise and the savings of the people. |