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Show IT'S A BLOODY MESS In a letter to the folks back home, Congressman August E. Johansen (R., Mich.) poses this provocative question : "Would it make sense for a patient to be receiving a blood transfusion and giving a blood donation at the same time?" It's the Congressman's opinion that such a practice, aside from being extremely dangerous, would be entirely en-tirely objectionable. "In a word," says Congressman Johansen, "it would be medical quackery." Then the Michigander makes his point: "I wonder whether we are not indulging in something some-thing just as ridiculous and perilous in the area of government gov-ernment and economics. "I refer to the continuously increasing simultaneous I policy of Federal taxation and Federal aid especially when resorted to as a supposed basis for improving economic eco-nomic health. "Of course this policy provides a wonderful windfall wind-fall of political power and profit for the Doctors of Big Government and Phony Economics who promote and administer the procedure." Congressman Johansen couldn't be more correct. It IS rugged for the patient and it sure has the odor of iconomic and political quackery. |