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Show Page 10 The Utah Independent The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand July 17, 1975 On top of a base salary of $42,500 a year, members of the House and Senate also receive: TOM ANDERSON Liberal -- retirement benefits after years service ($5,312.50 annually). Top pension: $34,000 a year after 32 years of service. ent-free offices: one in IS HE WORTH IT? Counting everything, salaries, fringes, In the will cost the suffering taxpayers an estimated $10 954, Congress employed 4,500 people and had a budget of $42 million. In 1974, Congress employed 1 6,000 people and had a budget of $328 million. This is a 256 percent increase in staff and 681 far more percent in budget than could be justified by the inflation weve experienced. The situation is even worse when you understand that neither the membership nor the work output of the Senate and House has increased in 20 years. Actually, the number of bills enacted in 1974 was exactly the same (257) as it was 10 years ago, when Congress had only one-thir- d the staff and budget it has today. The Committee on House Administration recently announced that additional benefits are now available to the Members of the House. A committee voted in closed sesssion to create a new fund for payment of constituent mailings, and for an increase in the clerk hire allowance for staffs, and for an increase in the number of trips home. The committees action no approval or disapproval of the House itself, because in 1971 the House required to granted secretly, and without a vote of the legislature. The new House splurge taxpayers around $1,300,000 a year. Is he worth it? 1 -R- discounts, etc., your benefits, etc., Congressman costs the House Administration Committee the power to establish allowances under the table, underhanded. ' million a year. In the four years since allowances 1971, Members free trips to have ballooned the district up 1 1 optional for sums travel up 300, lump allowances up stationery clerk hire funds up telephone allowance units up 56, district office rentals up 6, 85, 52, 75. They voted themselves more mailings, more staff, and more trips home so they could get more votes in the next election. Let .us not forget that. Formerly, members were allowed to collect expenses for 36 trips home during the two-yelife of a Congress. In addition, six trips by staff members were authorized. Under the new rule, ar members will be allowed trips every year, of which must be for staff members six more may be. As an alternative to individually 32 six and the trips, paid members formerly could draw a cash allowance of $1,125 a year for travel. Many members living close to Washington chose this option. The allowance now will be doubled, to $2,250. Two months ago, members received authority to employ two additional staff members each, but no increase in the overall staff pay allowance, $204,720. The committee increased the allowance to $227,270, for a maximum of 18 employees. The Myth Of American Myth industrial of American (Quote) For several decades, the U.S. has pursued policies not only contrary to American interests and security but also resulting in seemingly continuous failure. Although the free world has looked to the U.S. for leadership to oppose the steady advance of Communism, every American effort has been unsuccessful. America, with the help of other Western countries, however, has made its own enemy. For 10 years, Mr. Antony C. Sutton of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution investigated Soviet technology. His findings were presented to Congress in & Peace August, concluded: 1 972. They for Senators, $586,160 $165,168 for House members. -- Free mailing privileges on office business mail, plus il and allowances for up to special delivery air-ma- - $1,520 a year for Senators, $910 for Representatives. -- More than 300 hours of gyms - one for Senators, one for House members. steam There is and military This massive construction job has taken 50 years, since the Revolution of 1917. It has been carried out through trade and the sale of plant, equipment and technical assistance. Sutton cites the following examples: In 1917, Kuhn, Loeb & Co., of New York, bankrolled the Bolshevik Revolution of U.S. $20 million. It also capabilities. financed Lenins economic in the 1920s and the plan First Plan. The Five-Ye- ar second Plan was also financed from America, when Five-Ye- the Bolsheviks consolidating Russia. In ar were their control of 1933 President Roosevelt saved the Soviet Union from economic collapse by granting official diplomatic rooms, - Free haircuts for for Senators, $2 at special Representatives, barber shops; beauty shops at reduced rates for female meals, free of sales tax, at private dining rooms in Capitol. -- TV and radio studio service, at discount rates. -R- research service constituents high a for Senators year $20,000 from largest States. -- Stationery allowance of up to $4,250 for House members, up to $5,000 for e Senators at special stores on Capitol Hill. Free official round trips 18 a year for House home members, a much greater number for Senators, based on answering as as cut-rat- a formula. complex In addition: travel allowances of 20 cents a mile for getting to and from Washington at the start and finish of session. And: an allowance of $50 a day while on official business overseas. -- Up to $3,000 a year tax deduction for living costs in Washington. . Free underground parking on Capitol Hill. -- Free emergency medical care from physicians and nurses at Capitol Hill medical center, which contains examination room, laboratory. Free drugs if prescribed by Capitol physicians. -- Medical care in any military hospital at a flat fee of $61 a day regardless of for on help speeches, constituents State Department: Stalin paid tribute to the assistance rendered by the U.S. to Soviet industry before and during the war. Stalin said that about of all the large industrial enterprises in the Soviet Union have been built with U.S. help or two-thir- ds technological assistance. The Soviets have the largest plant in the world, built by the McKee The Corporation, U.S.A Soviets have the largest mill making tubes and pipes in iron-and-ste- Europe came el All the equipment and the from Europe U.S. The Soviets have the largest merchant marine in the All plants producing world motor vehicles American-buil- t. The are Gorki plant, the largest so far, was built by the lord Motor The Kama River Company will be the largest in plant the world. All equipment and technology for it is from the Howe on the nays. The American Way Features GETTYSBURG ADDRESS 1863 under God. shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth. ...that this nation, queries' Had enough? The Federal Election Campaign Act of 1974, of number a granted advantages to House and Senate incumbents. The more help they get, with you picking up the tab, the harder it is to unseat them. They increased the stationery allowance for Members of the House. And now, a new newsletter fund, more staff, more more and travel, telephone allowances. House The Rules Committee recently voted to allow each of the 1 5 members of the Rules Committee to hire an additional staff person who will be paid by committee funds. And the Appropriations Committee voted to authorize each of its 55 members to hire an additional aide, again out of committee (taxpayer) funds. And now theyre looking for additional office space. Those responsible should not be voted out at the next election they should be impeached now, for wanton waste, abuse of power, grand theft, and U.S The Soviet has the T-5- 4 tank Christie-typ- e American-designe- d CONVERSION D.C. U.S. Sen. Washington. James A. McClure this week warned that the Congress must not fail in efforts to curb the nations growing dependence on foreign oil imports, and the Idaho has urged swift Republican passage of legislation that calls for electric conversion of utilities in the East to coal use. Jim McClure, a member of the Senate Public Works Committee which is currently considering legislation, said without such ' workable that means of ending our national appetite for foreign oil, the United States is headed for perhaps the most dangerous crisis of our history a crisis where the nations dependence on oil imports will literally have become an addiction. That day must never come. The Idaho Senator, who has led efforts to gain Congressional said approval for substitution of coal for oil as the primary fuel for production of electricity in the Eastern and New England states could reduce oil imports by 1 -- million barrels per day. To meet that reduction. McClure said, calls for a increase in current coal oil-fir- coal-conversi- production. McClure called conversion to coal an absolute necessity if we are to avoid the terrible economic pains that total addiction to imported oil brings. The nation is already approaching levels technology supplied by the West has enabled the Soviets to suppress Russia and Eastern Europe, supply the Arab States with arms, equip armies in Korea and arm and Indo-Chinin Latin guerrillas Africa, America and Asia. a, totally unacceptable any reason could bring large segments of our economy to a standstill. Further. McClure said some of the environmental hard questions over coal use might be answered by recent advances in the technology for removal of sulfur from coal .technology that should be ready for wide-scacommercial application by the early 1980s. Foreign oil is presently a costing us more than year, and there are no indications that those costs will do anything but increase drastically in the future. And that increase in energy costs alone has an equally drastic effect on our economy If we can eliminate these imports, it will mean a major victory for the United States it will mean a continued economic independence for our nation. le 54-hilli- on c. and are that oil import levels that if cut for committee estimates that trade industry on, ent The U.S. has also sent.over computers, metals and jet engines and now cooperates on space research. Several times it has saved the Soviet Union from starvation by shipping over tons of wheat to prevent U.S. aid to the famine Soviet Union, and trade will continue. On his. visit to the U.S., Brezhnev talked with Kissinger in terms of $250 billion in trade over the next 20 years. A congressional non-strategi- ed on coal-conversi- and bought from the U.S. Wheel Track Laver Corp. will be as high as $5 billion annually by the end of the decade. The State Department has to clear all articles of trade as Yet the being COAL EXPEDITE . treatment. recognition. At the end of the War, Ambassador Averill Harriman reported back to the AGAINST: Dont you forget to vote nay educed-rate congressional - McKay entertaining. allowance nunfber of on DEMOCRATS members. Free flowers for offices, access to based Symms a . -- Telegram and o), 48 masseus, physiotherapy. calls. ce long-distan- .), made try at cutting off the gravy train on the House floor, but were voted down by the liberal juggernaut. Following is the 262-to-1rollcall (a nay vote is in favor of the additional $10 million in benefits): ' (R.-ldah- - Free free Armstrong (R.-Colo- (R.-Md- .) -- Free swimming pools and -- Free led by Bauman Conservatives, health insurance plan. -- A $45,000 life insurance policy at special rates, plus widows benefits equal to one years salary $42,500. suspension, no such thing as Soviet technology. Almost all, perhaps 90-- 95 percent, came directly or indirectly from the U.S. and its allies. In effect, the U.S. and NATO countries have built the Soviet Union, its Anti-Communis- Washington, D.C., as many as three at home. -- Salary for allowance staff, based on number of constituents. Top allowance: Anti-Communis- m John Coey, an American serving with the Rhodesian Army, wrote an article which appeared in a recent issue of Assegai (the magazine of the Rhodesian Army) under the title of The A. five -- Governmen ' |