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Show TAXPAYERS SHOULD KEEP OBJECTING TO SUBSIDIZING EUROPEAN NATIONS Dwight D. Eisenhower, one of the few Presidents who has enjoyed extremely high personal popularity with the individual voters, hit the air and TV lanes Tuesday night in support of his 71 billion dollar budget. Our guess is that Ike's going to lose a lot of his personal popularity, and the finally-aroused nation is going to continue to clamor for tax cuts, relief from heavy federal spending, and .in end to the foreign give-away programs. President Eisenhower said it would be "a fearful gamble" to cut defense spending in the face of Soviet might, but we think he's shooting smokescreens. We haven't hard any howls for cuts in defense spending. We don't think the voters want any cuts in legitimate defense spending. What they want is a definite end to the handouts, and a big curtailment in spending for non-essential government services. The President said he's "determined to search out ways to save money" in goverment, and in the next sentence promised prom-ised "future" tax reductions. That's the same refrain we've been listening to for many, many years tax cuts in the future. In another paragraph, President Eisenhower pointed out that SEVEN BILLION DOLLARS is budgeted to pay the INTEREST on the national debt money that the government govern-ment has borrowed to run the country (and give away to "less fortunate" foreign nations). That's a hot one. The administration ad-ministration wants to continue sending taxpayers' money to foreign nations when TEN PERCENT of their entire spending spend-ing program is to pay interest on money they've already borrowed bor-rowed and spent. There's two bits of heartening news in the same paper reporting re-porting President Eisenhower's speech. One is the report that Senator Knowland of California (and others) are planing plan-ing a fight on the Administration's unpopular decision to furnish jet planes and other military equipment to Communist Yugoslavia. Let's hope the senators can win their scrap. Then it's reported that the Senate Appropriations Committee Com-mittee made new reductions in the U S Information Agency appropriation. The U S Information Agency is the news-writing news-writing branch of the non-essential government services that has a huge payroll with the guys that draw the salaries spending spend-ing their time writing promotional blow-ups about every government gov-ernment agency, from the farm programs to the propaganda mills in foreign countries. ' If the voters continue to deluge their congressmen and ' senators with protests, maybe we'll get our government spending spend-ing back into reasonable limits. j |