| Show 1 i National mismanagement Recently the Chairman of the Board of the U. U S. S Steel Corporation E E. B B. B Speer told newsmen that I III think we have reached a point in our national development when our American idealism has to be tempered with more economic realism Some of our na national objectives may be very desirable but our approach to them isn't very practical We dont don't know Mr Speer personally but if we are to judge by his words he must be one of the most mild-mannered mild men in America What he could have said was that if his or any other industry industry industry in in- were run the same way as the government in Washington that firm would be bankrupt within 30 days if it managed to survive that long Washington newsman Henry J J. J Taylor reports that government correspondence now amounts to more than one billion letters a year That he points out comes to letters a aday aday aday day days a year including Sundays and holidays The cost to you fellow taxpayer is 3 a letter But that doesn't take into account what to do about all of those carbon copies That's where the real rub comes About yes government employees explains Taylor are chiefly involved in filing the paper into cabinets These cabinets cover 25 million square feet of floor space That's more than 12 times the entire floor space in New NewYork's NewYork's NewYork's Yorks York's vast story Empire State Building The non elected bureaucrats are not the only in Washington Consider the he United States Congress Earlier this year the President in a move designed to stimulate the sagging economy initiated a tax rebate of up to per taxpayer But within weeks the Congress increased the national debt by That figures out outto outto outto to for each and every everyone one of the 90 million wage-earners wage in the United States Add to this the fact that when it comes to the one most important and legitimate end of government government- g that of our national defense some members of Congress are miraculously tran tran- transformed stormed from wild-eyed wild spenders into pinching penny-pinching misers Clearly the people of the United States need to carefully consider those they will elect to public office in 1976 Its It's not too early to start thinking about it |
