Show ENOUGH'S ENOUGH 1 J Im i Q JAI J li I t I rl A Aa a g A t tide WHO NEEDS IT So politically sensitive has the issue of consumerism become that a candidate for public office otTice might just liSwell as liS aswell well denounce motherhood apple apples pie pic and the American fla flag as appear anti Of course the American consumer is important And his interests must he be adequately represented But nut were we're already dangerously close to overkill over in this re regard ard with the recently created Consumer Product Safety Safely Commission Commission Com mission and consumer advocates already operating in ina a multitude of other consumer programs and agencies But advocates of the bigger higger government is hett letter better r government school want to add still another layer to the heavily encumbered federal bureaucracy by hy creating a new Consumer Protection Agency to do battle hattle with and even sue site in court all other agencies In all their talk of consumer interest in government government govern govern- ment these prolific bureaucrats forget one thing tint that tl t consumers have a thousand different interests interests interests-as as workers work worl ers taxpayers farmers ecologists veterans who veterans who make makeup up the whole public interest That's why our government and all laws are arc based hasell upon the public interest And of course money for the proposed a agency ency would cOl cone come e efrom from the pockets of you of-you you guessed it the it-the the American consumer If current Iro programs rams are not meeting needs of the consumer con eon sumer lets let's improve them until they are effective The last thing tiling we need is to spend the taxpayers' taxpayers mone money to create creale another agency to argue for a special interest over the welfare of all other interests and groups |