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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A October 9, 1975 The Utah Independent Page 11 Stand HOT LINE From LIBERTY LOBBY KNOW-WHATS-U- well-inform- "Just where in ed As the crime rate gets worse and worse, Congress is busily - to make things engaged in trying to pass crime legislation easy for the criminal. If the "Criminal Justice Reform Act of 1975" becomes law here's the future scenario as presented by Alabama Congressman Bill Dickinson: "You're asleep and hear a noise in the living room in the middle of the night. Suddenly, you're wide awake and scared when you realize that someone is in your house 'It's a burglar,' you think. Out of fear you grab your gun, flip on the lights and discover that someone is making off with your television set. The criminal starts to go out the window, you enter the room, he turns, you shoot and kill him. The next day you're proclaimed as a hero in your community, but you suddenly find you've been charged with murder because you didn't call the police or go out the back door when you discovered the burglar, or question the intruder about his presence in your home." Congressman Dicknson adds: "codifying this law appears g to be a attempt to make it more difficult for a man to protect his life and property and if a person is forced to kill in protecting his life andor property, the burden of proving such action was necessary will fall heavily on the person whose left-win- our home was being burglarized. "Lenient, liberal judges all across the country have already made it far too easy for criminals to prey on their innocent victims without fear of reprisal. Night time burglars and other assorted thives should have a real field day though if this 'Criminal Justice Reform Act of 1975 becomes law. "It has always been assumed under common law that 'a man's home is his castle' and that he may take such force as is necessary, but no more force than is necessary, to protect his life and property. That common law will read 'a man's home is a criminal's playground' if this legislation passes." Write your senators and congressman. Constitution is there any legal authority to give away vast sums of taxpayers money to any foreign nation? Is not Kissinger's foreign policy one that favors the build-u- p of subversion and debt, loaded on future generations of Americans? If so, should not Kissinger (already, in fact, our "Chancellor of External Affairs") be removed Should not loyal forthwith? Americans tell President Ford and -- Congress, bluntly, to repudiate this whole unsavory mess and start over? Or do we now live in occupied territory???" I replied. "Your questions are good ones, and timely! They must be answered by our top officials unless this nation is willing to be further gutted and plundered to the point of bankruptcy, by our Monetary and State 'Department policies now controlled by Internationalists!" - Washington What - possible to keep its administrative costs down as to and minimum a continually looks for new methods of promoting and efficiency its new President minimizing overhead. ve of business The government should not be any different. The inflation present in our economy today means that the government is spending too much of the taxpayers' of comprising nine university campuses and 1 19,000 students, has a new president. He's David S. Saxon, who takes California, 55-year-- over the huge teaching system just 26 years after he was forced to leave the University of California at dollars in ways. Drastic non-producti- ve action is Unfortunately, corrective needed. none is Angeles (UCLA) for refusing to sign a loyalty oath on the grounds of conscience. As a top forthcoming. Rather than trying to economize on the huge administrative costs of our government, the'bureaucrats of UCLA years later, Saxon, in the words of the New York Times, "added to his reputation as a champion of Washington are actively involved in "empire-building.- " According to the present method by which promotions and salaries are academic freedom when he calculated for government officials, the larger the size of a department, the greater its operational scope and the higher the number of its employees, the greater the status and the hotter (he for advancement. chance Instead of trying to reduce the inefficiencies, to save on Los administrator the faculty Davis, that Angela position the black militant and supported avowed Marxist (she is actually a member of the Communist Party), should be permitted to teach a course on philosophy on the campus." - Human Events is time to balance the U.S. budget, stop the "It gifts and limit our programs to teaching those who want to learn how to duplicate our agricultural productivity...." Allan Q. Moore retired executive of the nilsbury Company -- , does any business do when it finds its costs are too high? The answer is obvious in addition to increasing productivity, it tries as far non-producti- University American Way Features The Combating Bureaucracy University gets The P (SO n, One of our members just phoned, I and quote from the ensuing conversation: "Col. Da 11, are the American people sound asleep; have they gone crazy allowing themselves to be "conned" for 75 Billion Dollars, over 5 years, to prop up the war machine of the Israelis, in particular, and to some extent, Egypt, so a big war can develop? Don't Americans realize that we over-taxe- d citizens have to pay this huge, unnecessary obligation, if approved by our manipulated Congress? "How big is the "kickback to duped or pressured "insiders" on Capitol Hill, and Executive and State Departments? How big? Why send 200 misnamed "technicians" to be used as convenient "molotov Cocktails" to trigger another Big Bankers1 war? out-of-tow- PICKETS VS. PUBLIC Senator Strom Thurmond in v manpower and administrative duplication and. most important, to reduce the drain on taxpayers, the system has given our officials a powerful incentive to do just the opposite. We call in vain for administrative savings, when the whole system seems to been designed to encourage officials to build their departments into have This is evidenced empires. by the fact the taxpayers know only too well once a government department is established, it tends to grow in both personnel and expense at the fastest rate which can be achieved. If we are serious about attacking inflation at its roots, then this must be one of the first candidates for our attention. And I have a proposal. The proposal which I - have to make is a simple one, but one which I feel will provide lasting benefit to the American taxpayers. I suggest that, in addition to normal salary consideration of such things as seniority and we experience, introduce consideration new a based on saved for the taxpayers. Government officials should have to money qualify for merit raises by s have they howing succeeded in introducing efficiencies which cut the costs of their department. Whatever innovations are introduced, be they to save on paperwork, manpower, or on on administrative duplication, the test should be whether or not they have saved the taxpayers money. This is revolutionary not a proposal. Business has been operating on this principle quite for many successfully decades. It is revolutionary however, to apply such a principle' to the Federal government. And. if we can e c o n o m i . e on t he With the recent settlement between the United States Postal Service and a group of postal employee unions, the issue of collective bargaining within the public sector is again in the news. Legislation has been introduced in Congress which would impose upon the States and their political subdivisions a system of compulsory' collective bargaining at all levels of government. I am unalterably opposed to any such legislation. . In my opinion, compulsory collective bargaining should be strictly excluded from government. There are several reasons for such a belief. In the first place, government is a kind of monopoly, representing all the people. There is not, and there cannot be, any competition with the government in maintaining our national defense, enforcing the law, dispensing justice, collecting taxes, coining money, or performing a long list of vital functions which belong entirely to If government is the people. hindered from performing these or functions, no individual organization can take its place. Collective bargaining, with its probably consequences of strikes and other forms of industrial action, would make it possible for disgruntled government employees to paralyze or even endanger the nation. Our defense might be neglected, the mail might remain or, as recently undelivered, in New York City, happened garbage might be left to rot in the streets. In the second place, government employees do not need collective bargaining to ensure that they receive fair wages and salaries. In government, as opposed to the private sector, there is no profit motive which is at the very heart of our system of competitive free Profits and free enterprise. enterprise have produced a higher standard of living and more goods and services at lower prices than any other economic system. However, profit con- siderations are not a concern of public officials. In other words, if Congress or any other body of STROM THURMOND elected officials pay government employees less money, not one cent of that money goes into their own pockets or the pockets of stockholders. Finally, there is a crucial difference between public and private employment. The ruling principle of action in the private sector is free contract. That is, every action that takes place between free individuals in a free society is done by mutual agreement. This is true in employment, in purchase, in all of our undertakings. By contrast, the ruling principle of action in government is is Government obligation. government only insofar as it can oblige people to obey its will. This is not tyranny, because the will of the government is, in our representative system, the will of the people. Tyranny results only when the government's power to oblige is surrendered to some agency that does not represent the will of the people. It is just such a surrender of sovereignty, just such incipient tyranny, that compulsory collective bargaining in the public sector would entail. This is the essential question we must face. Are we to have sovereign government whose is determined policy by the people's or are we to have a representatives, public sector collective bargaining where policy is the tool of a few We cannot labor negotiatiors? We must decide have both. whether the elected representatives of the people are to continue to run our government, or whether we are going to turn it over to a handful of union leaders. On this decision may well depend the entire future of our system of government. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOQOOOOOC administrative costs of could reverse the present government, we can strike two major blows against inflation. First, we enable money to be given back to the taxpayers. By easing the financial burden of the operational government, costs of we cut inflation and remove the need for wage increases "just to keep pace." And. this extra money can then be put to more productive uses in our economy. Second, by saving the money, we lower the need for deficit spending, the major culprit behind the inflationary spiral in our economy today. Thus, every dollar we save on administrative costs gives us more than a dollar's worth of value in the fight against inflation. ' If my "efficiency" tendency in government to enlargement and extension. awarding the basis of By to be proposal adopted, in one move we we cost-savin- g, continuous for the costs of incentive to be government minimized. promoting officials who have shown their ability to make economies, we can make bureaucracy our servant instead of our By master. -- Cong. government were a provide on increases Skip Bafalis Most people would rather defend to the death your right to say it than listen to it. 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