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Show The Paper That Dares To Take Stand A January 16, 1975 The Utah Independent Page 7 INFLATION CAN BE CURED TELEVISION VIEWING GUIDE Analyzing information from our annual TELEVISION POLL, we have gleaned this suggested prepared viewing guide. We trust it will be helpful to concerned parents as well as to individuals who care about redeeming the time. It is well to remember that constantly, programs change and that even the best may occasionally have something offensive in some way. This is definitely limited a viewpoint that and guide limitation may be found in Philippians4:8. 1. PROGRAMS RECOMMENDED WITH NO .RESERALMOST VATIONS FOR CHILDREN ALL AND FAMILY VIEWiNG. The Waltons, Last of the Candid New Wild, Wild Camera, Kingdom, Captain America (Alistair Cooke), Electric Company, Bicentennial programs, Most religious programs. World! of Disney, Little House on the Prairie, Born Free, Animal World, Wild, Wild World of Kangaroo, Sesame Animals, Street, Jacques Cousteaus undersea World, Sports (alcohol objectionable), programs are ads Lawrence Welk (not on major network) 2. PROGRAMS WHICH MAY HAVE EDUCATIONAL ANDOR RECREATIONAL VALUE, SUITABLE VIEWING i AND ARE FOR FAMILY MUCH OF THE TIME (But parental discernment should be exercised). Apples Way, Lucas Tanner, Today Show, Police Surgeon, Were getting just a little tired of hearing the political cliche, You cant stop (or even slow) inflation without setting off a depression. Analyzed, that cliche is nothing more nor less than a political assertion that, We have no intention of stopping inflation and giving up the power it gives us to fund boondoggles and gamer votes. There is, of course, just enough truth in the cliche to make Theatre, Interview programs. Network News (often biased) 3. PROGRAMS WHICH MAY BE SUITABLE FOR VERY LIMITED it sounti plausible. RECREATIONAL USE ONLY BUT REQUIRE STRICT PARENTAL REGARDING If you accept the assumption in the cliche (that the government will . continue to hamstring the business coummunity with regulations and red tape and continue to siphon off, via taxes, the capital the business community needs to expand and provide more jobs) then, of course, you must accept the cliche's conclusion (that the stopping or slowing down of inflation would bring on a depression). In that case, the individuals employed on government boondoggles would be disemployed and the private sector of the economy, with the government riding its back and looting its capital, would be unable to offer them jobs. But, if you refuse to accept the basic assumption in the conclusion is seen for what it is; cliche, then the an economic absurdity. Once that is realized, the course the government must' take, if it really want? to cure the disease of inflation, becomes equally clear. It consists of three concurrent steps: JUDGMENT FAMILY VIEWING. Dinah Shore, Barnaby Jones, Paper Moon, Odd Couple, Police Story, Kung Fu, The Rookies, Good Times, Adam 12, Happy Days, Ironside, Movin On, Emergency, Kojak, McCloud, Streets of San Francisco, Most shows (few are game educational many are greed fear-creati- factories.) 4. PROGRAMS NOT RECOMMENDED -- Shut off the inflation spigot (the creation of fiat and deficit spending). money 2. Remove all the restraints on the business community and, at the same time, dismantle all the government agencies which .have been imposing those restraints and crippling the economy. 3. Drastically reduce taxes all across the board and right down the line. Then, as the business community expands as the result of the restraints being removed and with the additional capital made available by the reduction of taxes, the individuals disemployed in the process can move from unproductive government jobs to productive work in the expanding market economy. There will, of course, be a period of readjustment as individuals move from one kind of employment to another and no doubt, there will be hardships involved. However, with the economy once again free, such a period of readjustment would be of short duration. After all, a drunk must expect hangovers and a reforming drug addict can anticipate withdrawal pains. Inflation CAN be stopped and a depression is NOT necessary. -- Gazette Telegraph Colorado Springs, Colorado LITTLE EDUCATIONAL VALUE, OR NOTHING OF CHARACTER BUILDING VALUE. Maude, Rhoda,.All in the Family, MASH, Cannon, Manhunter, Almost all movies. Get Christie Love, Harry-O- , Planet of the Apes, Friends LITTLE Lovers, Sons and Daughters, Carol Burnett, and talk Almost all evening shows, Sonny Comedy Revue, 6 Million Dollar Man, Thats My Mama, Bob Newhart, Mannix, Mary Tyler Moore, Almost all children's cartoons. (Occasional viewing harmless, but danger is in letting them become a habit.) (These listings are from ABC, CBS, NBC and limited educational TV). -- Action" Buena Park, California Gunsmoke, Mike Douglas, Rainbow Sundae, Family COMPANY MUSIC Across Salt Palace from PIANOS MUSIC-INSTRUM- GUITARS ENTS RENTALS REPAIR Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 A Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of Government. can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a Democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a Dictatorship and then a Monarchy. It Written hy Professor Alexander Fraser Tv tier, nearly two centuries ago while our thirteen states were still colonies of Great Britain. It seems to us that rather than a consumer protection agency, what we really need is a taxpayer protection agency to protect us from members of Congress who dont mind how much they (of other peoples money) for causes in which spend they believe. And, incidentally, if you dont want to be hit with a huge bill you will have to pay to support the Consumer Protection Act, it would be wise to let your in Congress Representatives know . . . and now! - The Lennox Independent Lennox, South Dakota This is a Republic, not a Lets Keep It Democracy That Way! Mans life is like a candle in the wind. Chinese Proverb If you die without being a father, you will die without having been a human being. Russian Proverb THE UNMOTIVATED GIANT Masterpiece Theatre, Documentary specials. Sierra, Marcus Welby, Tomorrow, Medical Center, 60 Minutes, Not for Women Only, ng 1. BECAUSE OF LOW MORAL PRINCIPLES, EXCESSIVE VIOLENCE, DEMOCRATIC RULE The thirteen free countries of Western Europe that are members of NATO, have a combined population of 309 million and in 1971 produced S729 billion worth of goods and services. The Warsaw Pact countries of Eastern Europe, including Russia, have a combined population of 349 million and a total gross product of S487 billion. If Canada and the United States be added to the European NATO countries, the population totals 538 million dnd the gross national product, $1,887 billion or not far below four times the output of the Warsaw Pact countries. Even so, as an effective instrument of aggression, Russia and her satellites are stronger than the NATO countries s including the United States. The West has a preponderance of industrial output, but the East has a greater military output and a much greater will to win. Nations and combinations of nations decline when they become luxury loving and lose the will to undergo the hardships necessary to defend themselves. This is the fourth reason why nations decline and often disappear. The other three discussed frequently in Applied Christianity are: 1. Loss of faith in God; 2. Sexual debauchery and 3. Corruption of the monetary system by substituting worthless paper for gold and silver. -- Applied Christianity TRAP FOR U.S. The English-languaChina News of December 2 warned the United States against falling into a trap baited and set by the Chinese Communists. The paper said: Henry Kissinger made his seventh trip to the Chinese mainland with no intention of seeking an invitation for a visit by President Gerald Ford. The invitation was extended, however, and the American chief executive ge A-8AM-A The Tastiest Buffet in Town 5 LOCATIONS IN UTAH 744 E. 4th South 2960 Highland Drive Fashion Place Mall (All in Salt ltke City) Orem Ogden accepted. Peiping has tacitly indicated that neither its premier nor his chief deputy will be going to Washington unless the United States grants full recognition. Then why has President Ford agreed to go to Peiping? The statement of a U.S. official that no negative inferences are to be drawn from Kissingers inability to see must be taken with several grains of salt. Who Mao Tse-tun- g sees Mao or Chou and who does not is politically meaningful to the Chinese Communists. Mao spumed Kissinger as a sign of displeasure at the failure of Washington to move away from alliance with the Republic of China. Kissingers aides said the Chinese Communists did not U.S.-ROties. That, too, is part of push for a loosening of the the Chinese Communist strategy of luring the United States deeper and deeper into a web of relationships: The demand for C a break with the Republic of China will not come until the Chinese Communists believe the Americans have committed themselves irreversibly. In the Shanghai communique, the United States agreed there is only one China. That is undeniable. But President Nixon expressed hope for the peaceful settlement of the differences between the Chinese Communists and the free Chinese of the Republic of China. That is impossible. We fear that the Americans, intent upon the idea of one China by peaceful means, are being drawn into a situation where they may be tempted to accept phony Communist promises at face value; The Communists have often pledged to talk peace and coexist peacefully. These promises were never kept; they never will be kept. This country cannot prevent President Ford from going to Peiping. We can and should warn him of what the Chinese Communists are up to. We can and should make sure that the United States understands the values as well as the obligations of alliance and friendship with the Republic of China. We can and should increase our endeavors to persuade the United States that it is approaching deep and dangerous waters in the dialogue with the Chinese Communists. -- Free China Weekly |