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Show Page 2 Lehi Free Press Thursday, December 13, 1979 Letters To The Editor Readers Ash For Chance To Work Utah County because of surplus of skilled workers; or whether a $100,000 house w ill sell for $50,000 or $75,000. I don't know if Utah County will recover in two years or 10 years; or, how many happy families will break up because of the number 1 leading of cause family Dear Editor: I work at Geneva. I pay plenty of taxes. I have a wife and three children. I feel that I make a worthwhile contribution to society; however, I can afford none of the above without a decent job. I'm not a scientist. I'm not a politician. I understand the basics of the environmental questions, but I lack the technical genius to know the answers. I understand the essentials of economics, but I have no secret formulae or complicated computers to determine: how many jobs will be lost; how many homes will be foreclosed; or how low wages will drop in tro- problems-financ- ial uble; or how many people who are now in favor of cleaning up Geneva at any cost will be sorry; or how many people who are in favor of keeping Geneva open no matter what pollution it puts out will be glad that it closes. I don't think it's the communists trying to close us down, and I don't Hcln run 32 West Main Lehi, Utah 84043 Postage Paid at Lehi Post Office U.S.P.S. No. AUTOMOTIVE 309-50- Published by Newtah, Inc. Every Thursday Stop and Compile our puces You 1 With Us! Michael N.Stansfield Publisher Coolers Trinsmissions CompWtlj free Rebuilt Financing - Road Test ananged on Approved East Main 151 Dennis White Managing Editor Shift Kits - Ciedit Betty Fowler Society Editor American Fork 756 3825 We ate not Working on We are Building Subscription Price Per Year $7.50 (In Advance) Reputation One Coast to Coast 17 North Merchant American Fork, Utah 84003 been doing my I just barely made it in time for the 1979 pickup truck Dec. 31. There were so many to sort out and throw away. Before I was through I felt a lot better and the truck was a lot heavier. The first thing I did was dig out all my old regrets. You know I had saved up so many of those silly old things they had almost blocked the doors to my happy memories. What good I thought they'd ever be I just don't know. I hadn't opened my sparetime chest for sometime. The things it was filled with amazed me. Piles of excuses, some so weak they'd barely stand up for the too many idle hours. Lots of old New Year resolutions left over from last year. I threw out the lot of them. I'm going to fill it with genealogical research, study, visits and all those worthwhile things. I hope next year I won't want to throw out a thing. I've Next, I opened my repentance CoiroveirliDbDe Upright Special All-ste- el alone, however. The same thing may happen to you, too. Jimmy D. Kadmall, Sr. Orem Dear Editor: I have a family of seven. I am responsible I for their livelihood. would rather have almost clean air and a job and be able to eat than have no job at all and lots of clean air to starve to death in. I think that the EPA is unreasonable in going by (he letter of the law and trying for goals of zero with pollution Geneva, when (here are BROWSING With Tom Griffiths It seems like our lives are heine influenced more and more by so called experts. In almost every field of endeavor there is an expert who wants to tell us what to do and how to do it. A perfect example is our government who is staffed with so called experts. We have economists who are supposed to be expert in their field yet they do not know how to control inflation. other pollution factors much greater. I believe the EPA has too much power when they can put thousands of people out of work and possibly destroy their lives. Then, also, our government has to carry an extra load in public assistance to these people. I think this is a high price for America to pay for clean air. At this rate we'll be a second rate industrial country and a crippled people by the EPA monster we've created. Thank you, Doug Biediger We have experts on energy and as Lil' Abner once said "any fool can see" what an energy mess we are in. On television we see an advertisement by a broker. "When E.F. Hutton speaks everyone listens." An article in a recent newspaper described how a woman listened and upon the advice of this broker invested quite a few thousand dollars and lost it all. There was a case recently of a marriage counsellor, an expert in solving marital problems, who left his wife and ran away with one of his clients. I am reminded of the story of a little boy whose parents gave him a turtle for his birthday. He loved this little turtle and for hours he would watch him crawl about in his room. His parents did not have to remind him to feed the little tyke, it was a chore he loved to do. One morning he arose and to his horror his turtle was lying on its back, very still, and apparently dead. The boy was heartbroken and could not be consoled. His parents, after a conference, decided to call in a psychologist from the local university to help console the boy. Year End Thoughts year's cleaning. CARTS Are No. think it s the Birchers trying to keep us open. I think that most of the people for and against Geneva's and the EPA's pollution controversy are good honest people with differing view points. I like clean air, but I also like my job. There's not a whole lot that I know about the situations for sure; but, I do know that I need my job, or I lose my home, become unemployed, possibly a welfare recipient, and put my family through a hell of uncertainty of financial chaos. I'm not cupboard. That was no problem. It was only half full. I didn't have nearly half enough. I'll need a lot more or I'll never be a good year keeper in 1980. I have to mention this. When I opened my 'W.E.' closet, everything fell out on the floor like "Fibber McGee's" closet. I had to go for more boxes. It was of selfishness, full forgetfulness, selfright-eousnesglory seeking, self-pitsmugness. You never saw such a mess. I was shocked. I had been a careless year keeper. The most destructive thing I found was a tin of judgement. It was a soul destroying caustic, made up of criticism, faultfinding and gossip. It had spilled and eaten away the lovely shine on the small amount of service and good examples I had stored next to it. It made me sick to see all that waste. I'll never keep that stuff around again. Did you ever put something away and then forget where you put it? I had misplaced a lovely old set of values. They had been in the family for a long time. I turned the year upside down and do you know where I found them? In the bottom of the drawer covered with discontent, covetousness, envy and jealousy. When I got rid of that do you know what else I found right beside it? My contentment. I had put them together, my lovely values and my precious contentment. It's amazing how easy it is to misplace your values. Are you an old letter saver? You are? So am I. I was sorting out my old letters and found I had far too many "I's". I threw out all but a few "I's" and I'm getting a lot more "Y's", "O's" and "U's". And a lot more "W's" and "E's". I found out, too, that I needed a lot more things to be a really good year keeper in 1980- - like a giant size box of patience, a family size carton of tolerance and at least a case of understanding. I need a year's supply of love, the undiluted kind that can bleach out all the stains that accumulated when I didn't use it. Then my concern for others, unselfishness, desire to serve, eagerness not afraid to face good, dependable men who are worthwhile something contribute to and responsibility to their job and to life itself. There are experts in the field of training and I salute of men and them, but we cannot take over the incentive own. their on women to succeed The psychologist was an expert on human emotions and went to work on the little boy. He called him to his side and outlined a program. "We will get a nice box and line it with white tissue paper. Then we will lay the little turtle in it and cover him with another sheet of paper. We will then invite some of your friends to the funeral. We will place the box on your little red wagon and take him for a ride around the block. We will then bring him home and bury him under the old apple tree in the back yard." The boy's attitude suddenly changed and he was not only consoled but excited. They went to the boy's room to get the turtle and as they watched, the little thing gave a flip and landed on his feet and started to crawl. The boy pointed his finger at his once loved turtle and cried out, "Kill him, kill him." So there. Don't always depend upon the experts, their advice might go in reverse. William Shakespeare in his play, Julius Caesar, seemed to have hit the nail on the head when he wrote these immortal words: "Men sometimes are masters of their fates; The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings." I think of my own father who did not achieve any greatness in his life but what he did he did on his own. For many years when I was a lad we didn't take a newspaper and there was no radio or television, so he didn't know about experts. So he, like many other men of his time, was on his to forgive and forget. Love for my Heavenly Father and myself will be more than white, more than bright, they'll be absolutely dazzling all through 1980. If I start littering up my year again with a lot of junk, Ihope I can remember how hard it is to clean it out, and store only the lovely things. I'll want to keep to make my year beautiful and prayerful, and make me a more well rounded and truly, fulfilled person. Anonymous . 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To Limit Federal Spending 8 I J The taxpayers' revolt now sweeping the country could increase in magnitude when taxpayers realize that inflation is pushing them into higher income tax brackets. Figures released recently by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States indicates that inflation is raising our taxes automatically at the rate of $35 billion a year or $600 annually for the average family. A policy analyst at The Heritage Foundation put it this way: "A typical family of four with an income of $15,000 paid $1,375 in 1978 taxes. If that family received a pay increase just matching the 11.1 percent rate of inflation, its 1979 tax payment will be $1,564.65, an increase of nearly 14 percent." For the most part, wage increases do keep pace with the cost of living, but there is no way that these increases can cushion the effect on the employee of being pushed into a higher tax bracket. As a result of the larger paycheck, the government takes a larger share of one's earnings. That means the government is able to bring in more money without voting a tax increase! Dr. Milton Friedman estimates that when the cost of living goes up 10 percent, the federal treasury actually receives sixteen percent more in revenues because so many people are paying higher taxes. No wonder there is no serious effort to curb inflation. It's a means of taking more money from the taxpayers without the political embarrassment of legislating higher taxes. In 1978, the Congress and the President supported a tax cut, although even the highest figure discussed, about a $20 billion cut, would not compensate for inflation and higher Social Security taxes which take effect next year. Tax limitation alone will not solve the problem at the federal level. Rather than live within the budget established by limitations the federal government could simply print more money to cover its costs, something cities and states cannot do. More money in circulation would, of course, make the dollar worth even less; the rate of inflation would rise, and still more taxpayers would be pushed into higher tax brackets. What is needed is a Constitutional Amendment limiting federal spending. By establishing a legal ceiling on the amount of money the government can spend we will once again gain control of our tax dollars. When politicians are required to live within a budget, they will be forced to establish spending priorities and eliminate wasteful and unnecessary programs. This probably won't happen in the next year, but as more Americans recognize that they are losing ground to inflation caused by federal spending, the tax revolt that has been directed at state capitals and city halls will come home to roost on the Capitol Dome. Richard M. Del uiul Joy VanAtulel 'The Nutcracker' To Be Presented At Training School (Continued from Front Page) rehearsals, and the recorded narration used during the programs. 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