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Show lunches. But the Chamber of Commerce Com-merce and the Manufacturers have not mentioned such fiscal matters as the hard money policy of tight credit and high Interest which added $1.1 billions to the budget for national debt Interest; nor the 27 H per cent oil depletion tax allowance which costs the IT. S. Treasury some $750 million a year; nor the billions in rapid tax write-offs In 5 years instead of 20; nor the lease-purchase program pro-gram which is costing the government govern-ment about double to own public buildings that it did when the Government Gov-ernment built them itself on bid contracts; nor the policy of letting private Industry do jobs which the government has been doing Itself. Under this policy the Government Govern-ment has been divesting Itself of PRESIDENT EISENHOWER, according ac-cording to word from the White House, got his dander up, and decided de-cided to make fight to preserve his budget of $78.1 billion, the biggest big-gest budget in the country's history. his-tory. The President, at the start of his campaign found himself in an almost untenable position. Even his chief of the Government's fiscal fis-cal policy, Secretary Humphrey, has declared the budget could be cut considerably, and should be. When members of the Congress, In spirit of cooperation sent a formal form-al request to the President asking ask-ing him wherein cuts could be made in the budget without endangering en-dangering security or the President's Presi-dent's programs, Mr. Elsenhower, rather superciliously sent back word that was not his job, but the lob of the Congress. Had the Pres- many services which it has been doing Itself for years, and turning turn-ing these jobs over to private industry. in-dustry. When Government officials offi-cials complained It cost them more money, Mr. Brundage ruled: "The decision to continue or discontinue an activity as being in the public interest should NOT depend primarily pri-marily upon whether the product or service can be produced cheaper cheap-er by the government. As a general gen-eral guide our policy is that apparent ap-parent cost or savings should not be the deciding factor where adequate ade-quate competition exists." Of course iff anybody's guess, but the best Informed people in Washington predict the budget will wind up with a cut of up to $4 billion, even though it might be that some of the top flighters might be hurt, like for Instance. Secretary Charles Wilson, who says all this hue and cry for budget budg-et cuts by his friends, "Gives me j a pain." I ident then and there, sent back a second budget message, saying that at the time the Budget was presented at the beginning of this Congress, it appeared the money would be needed, but that after some consideration, he believed it could be cut, and had pointed out where, there is every likelihood likeli-hood the Congress would have gone along with him. Now, with his program of legislation legis-lation endangered, he found it too late to compromise and considered con-sidered an all-out fight to retain his budget requests. Even his friends of the business community, communi-ty, members of the U. S. Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce, and the National Nation-al Association of Manufacturers are demanding huge chunks be sliced out of the budget But even these demands do not get at the real fat which could help the taxpayers. tax-payers. They cite cuts in foreign aid, (arm supports, social services, serv-ices, aid to education, even school |