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Show Well the Republicans may be moving to Washington, but the Democrats say they are not moving out. It seems that when the Democrats went to Washington, D.C. twenty five years ago, they bought homes for $25,000. Now with 25 years of inflation, infla-tion, those same houses are worth $350,000 and the Republicans Re-publicans cant afford to buy them, so. the Democrats are staying. - 0 -Actually its fewpoliticians or bureaucrats that go home when they lose. Most only went home when they were in office to campaign for another term. Take a look at our own Utahns. Bennett, Moss, Burton, Bur-ton, Lloyd, Owens of recent years all found another job in the nation's capitol after retiring or being tossed out by the voters. The same is true of former legislators from other states. Once they get to the seat of power they don't want to leave. - 0 - Sure, and that's why our favorite send off, when we see one of our legislators, is to remind them, 'When you start calling Washington, Washing-ton, D.C. home, that's when we start voting for the opposition.' op-position.' - 0 - The sad thing is that once they have a term under their belts they can hang on in Washington as long as they like. Because they have a working knowledge of the federal government and valuable contacts in the bureaucracies, bu-reaucracies, they can easily become lobbyists or part of the bureaucratic establishment. establish-ment. Its sure evidence that we've allowed Washington, D.C. to become more than just the center of government govern-ment of the most powerful nation on earth. They may go to Washington with the best of intentions, but it doesn't take them long to adjust to the fancy balls, the state dinners and the night life. And certainly it must be an ego kick to have representatives representa-tives of foreign countries, big industry, big labor and other influence peddlers searching you out. Is it any wonder that corruption exists, that many feel they are above the law of the land? - 0 - As the song goes, 'How you going to keep them back on the farm after they've seen D.C.?' You just can't. But there are some things that can be done. We could limit the number of terms they can hold. We can limit the num -ber of bills each legislator can introduce or co-sponsor., co-sponsor., We can limit congressional con-gressional sessions to six months, including congressional congres-sional junkets, and force them to spend six months in their home state, where constituents con-stituents can get their ear. We could limit their salaries, salar-ies, and salaries of bureaucrats bureau-crats to 10 above the national na-tional average. - 0 Too long we've complained about big government. If we really don't want big government, govern-ment, we've got to bring them back to the farm every once in a while, just so they will know what it's like back home, and where their home really is. Even with double digit inflation, in-flation, the rest of the coun -try can't catch up to D.C. And if we want to halt inflation infla-tion at home, we've got to stop it in D.C. first. - 0 One thing is for certain, the anti-MX'ers have more fun. They've got an 'Ax the MX' party going someplace some-place every weekend. December Dec-ember 13 they will dance to the Bill Browne Band at the University of Utah Kingsbury Hall. But no matter who the band is, they play the same old tune, with the same old vocalists, Cecil 'Commode' Garland, Dr.Edwin Firmage, Sen. Francis Farley and Mayor Ted Wilson. Now with a free swinging quartet like that you'd expect ex-pect them to have at least cut a pop single by now, but Instead, they're riding low on the charts. They'd better bet-ter get some new material before they lose their groupies. - 0 And from 'Traffic Tld-Blts' Tld-Blts' we get this macabre fact: Traffic accidents have killed more Americans than all our Wars combined. Total To-tal U.S. casualties in every war since 1775 is 1,156,000. Total traffic deaths since 1900 is 2,250,000. |