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Show .EDITORIAL.- THE STATE OF THE UNION IS BAD? For the first time In my adult life, a President of the United States got up before the Congress of the United States, and in his State of the Union address said, "The State of the Union is bad." I'm not exactly sure whether the state of the Union is that much worse than previous pre-vious years or whether we just have a more honest President. Or possibly it's because the media and politicians continually continual-ly tell us how bad things are, until finally people are convinced, and everyone stops buying and selling, and things really are bad. For instance, the dollar has taken a beating on the foreign market for years. Finally Nixon devalued It. Still nobody wanted It. All the foreigners took their dollars dol-lars and bought gold. Next, the economists convinced the politicians that Americans should have the same privileges others had. The right to trade our dollars for gold. So, January 1st they legalized the ownership of gold In the good old U.S.A. Then because the U.S. Government owned all the gold in the U.S.A., economists convinced the bureaucrats bur-eaucrats that the rush to buy gold by Americans Ameri-cans would be so great it would affect the International balance of payments. So the bureaucrats decided to take our gold out of Ft. Knox and sell it back to us. . And, I might add, at greatly Inflated prices. They bought at $35.00 an ounce, but wanted to sell at $180-$200 an ounce. But we Americans didn't buy. We were satisfied to keep our dollars, showing a faith and trust In our country, unknown in bureaucratic circles. In fact, about the only thing we Americans are afraid of, are the economists and bureaucrats who try to manipulate the economy. Those who preach austerity on the national networks, and in Washington, D. C, while voting for a cost of living increase for themselves larger than the average middle Income wage. It's these same economists and bureaucrats bureau-crats that preach austerity at home, while they give huge loans of dollars and food to India and the Arabs. These are the same bureaucrats that limit our farmers' sale of produce to Russia, China, and Japan for cash, but refuse to limit Imports that are sold in the U.S. in direct competition to those same farmers. These are the same bureaucrats that fail to face up to the collection of foreign debts dating back to World War II - but continually enlarge our national debt year after year. We, here in Southern Utah, are coming to the conclusion that the state of the Union is really pretty good. The Arab oil embargo brought attention to our geothermal prospects, pros-pects, our oil shale, and our coal, oil, and gas deposits. Jamacia's tax on bauxite makes Beaver County alunite look even more lucrative. The world shortage of food makes our prospective fertilizer industry and our Irrigated farm land precious commodities com-modities worth more than all the gold in Ft. Knox. Yes, the State of the Union is all right, but we'd sure like to see the bureaucrats in the Department of Interior turn loose of Kaiparowits, and let Kane County move ahead. In Beaver County, we'd like a USGS permit so Phillips Petroleum could begin drilling for geothermal steam. And it wouldn't hurt if they'd rush the environmental environ-mental Impact statement through so Earth Sciences could get underway. Yes, here in Southern Utah the state of the Union looks real good. We've just got to export a few bureaucrats and economists so we can get on about our business of feeding, clothing, and providing the comforts to the rest of the world without all this red tape fouling up the good old free enterprise enter-prise system that made this country great. "Red" |