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Show TOO MUCH GOVERNMENT I The 90th session of Congress, now under way, will be faced with still more demands for increased spending, even though the last Congress passed scores of new laws that add up to high budgets and bigger government. Rep. George H. Mahon (D., Texas) chairman of the Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives, Representa-tives, stated, "We are suffering from some legislative indigestion; in-digestion; from too much government, from too much spending, and from too mi ch inflation. "We have made small down payments this year on some of the newly authorized programs. The costs of inany of them will increase year by year." One of them is the Demonstration Cities program in which the Federal Government assumes a major part in rebuilding blighted areas of cities. The original program pro-gram covered only about 50 to 60 cities, or about one to each state. However, it is expected that city after city will try to get on the bandwagon and demand Federal f.inds. For example, Mayor Lindsay of New York estimates es-timates that $50 billion will be needed in 10 years for New York City alone. In order for this and other Federal programs to keep within reasonable bounds, the public must demand rigid control of spending. It is up to grassroots America to urge the members of Congress to practice fiscal restraint re-straint and to cut Federal spending. This is one positive posi-tive way to squelch the fires of inflation and to make sure that each spending dollar goes further. |