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Show Page 8 The Utah Independent October 23, 1975 The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand LIVESTOCK MUTILATION TOM BREITLING THE SCOTT REPORT Continut'd from page 3 tend to agree with his first sentence, it is hard to know whether or not I agree with his second, because 1 cannot quantify or either good percentage Hurtado does tell us illhouscd. that the State passed out S3 million as an emergency appropriation for Staff housing. personnel of WFRC worked with the State Housing Division in distributing the Wasatch Front share of the money to local governments and they worked with the local While or initiate new programs, but rather its mission is to coordinate I low-inco- in communities developing use the apbest to programs propriation." No mention is made of how the money was actually used. Further on in the report Hurtado refers to a bill, which must have been H.B. 106. to make available mortgage money at reduced rates of interest. This will be subsidized by either Federal or State Taxes. Worst of all. possibly, is the fact that this method of putting people is mortgages on really a burden. Even with low interest the burden exists, because the mortgagee must still pay the debt or default. One possible explanation for such subsidized programs for housing is that money lenders" will be subsidized. Perhaps if we turn over a family we will find a money lender under it. low-inco- so-call- ed low-inco- HUMAN RESOURCES, LAND USE, AND TRANSPORTATION No one is named as chairman of the committee on human resources, but there is a report on it anyway. It makes me wonder if the other reports were really written by the named chairmen or ghost written by the ubiquitous WFRC staff. The purpose of the WFRCs involvement in human resources planning is not to deliver services TODAY'S SLAVE . . . NATIONAL DEBT GETTING OUT OF HAND . existing resources, to plan for best distribution of existing and future facilities, and to generally assist in assuring that service resources most efficiently and effectively serve their clientele." (Emphasis in Put another way. original.) WFRC wants to tie it all in one package and control it. In the report on Land Use" Mayor William Levitt of Alta said. Each metropolitan area must be certified by . the Federal Government for planning water and sewer facilities, open space land programs, and comprehensive This certification planning. process is performed by the WFRC on behalf of its members. This certification local qualified governments to receive certain categorized HUD Federal Grant funds. " ( Emphasis added. ) There it is. the same old Fabian road to totalitarian control. There isn't space to say a great amount about transportation. Die committee chairman is Salt Lake's Mayor Conrad B. Harrison. Some of our readers are aware that Ted Wilson came in first and Harrison second in the primary race for mayor. Steve Harmsen was third and John Brewer came in fourth. By now many people have already heard that it 4 costs somewhere between SI. 45 and SI. 56 per person to carry m on Utah Authority buses, and the passenger pays I5c or about 10. This information was brought out by Representative Sam Taylor at one of the UTA meetings. Using the same technique food, but people could get if all the people opted for it there would be no one to pay the subsidy. Tv always, socialism must have people to pay the difference to low-co- st make it go. THE UNBORN CHILD The unborn baby is now the modern Dred Scolt As with a black slave then, the unborn baby now has no legal rights, is the property" of the owner (mother), and can be killed if the owner wishes, any time before birth The 14th Amendment to the Constitution was enacted specifically to overturn the Dred-Scodecision. Nothing but another Constitutional Amendment can overturn this recent dreadful decision. If you would respect all human life, black or white, born or unborn, young or aged, mother or baby, then tt . JOIN US! Bv Paul Scott Washington: The skyrocketing cost of the nations soaring federal debt is one of the principle reasons behind President Fords position that government spending be reduced dollar for dollar to match any new tax cut. If this move toward fiscal res- isnt followed by ponsibility the President and his ad- visers see a situation developing on the national level similar to the mess in New York City. There the worst financial crisis in U.S. municipal fiistory was triggered by the city governments inability to raise enough revenue to meet the growing payments and on its record $12 billion dollar debt. Interest alone on this huge debt amounts to $1.6 billion this year thats double the citys $800 million operating deficit. the national scene. Treasury Department experts now estimate the yearly interest on the mushrooming national debt will On rise to a record $45 billion next year. This is a jump of $9 billion over the estimated $36 billion cost in interest due for the current fiscal year which ends June 30, 1976. Should taxes be cut without matching reductions in government spending, the Treasury Department experts have warned the President that the Transit management of the national debt. passengers which is scheduled to climb to more than $600 billion early next year, could get out of hand. conten- It is their hard-nose- d lion that the interest costs and the national debt are now rising so fast that it will soon take more than half of all personal income tax revenues collected just to service this moun- ting debt. The interest on the national debt is getting to a point where something must be done to keep it or the from rising further, in deep be will soon government financial trouble." the President was informed. In other words, the President was frankly told that the nation can stand one year of S70 billion deficits but not two or three because of the rising costs of servicing such a debt. 11 1 G II E R PENSION In addition to the COSTS soaring interest expenditure, the President is also deeply concerned about the exploding costs of pen- sions for federal employees. Outlays on pensions for military and civil service personnel have jumped 500 percent since 1965. while the number of beneficiaries has grown only 116 percent. Todays pensions cost the government almost SI7 billion dollars annually. By the mid- 1980s, experts predict, this cost will reach $45 billion and may go Civil service and even higher. military pensions this year arc now estimated to cost more than SI. 5 billion above original forecasts. Troubling the President and his advisers is how to meet the future cost of these pensions. The Civil Service Retirement Fund, for instance, is 100 billion dollars short of the sum it needs to meet its future liabilities. The military retirement plan faces a $155 billion dollar unfunded liability. To make conditions even worse, the same problem of funded liability has now developed in the massive social security program. For the first time, social security payments this year will be larger than the amount of money collected from covered workers, This means that the deficit will have to come out of the federal Treasury and be financed by creased deficit spending. This in turn will increase the national debt and the amount the government will have to pay in interest. BUILT IN INFLATION Since all of these pension programs are now tied to the cost of living, the Treasury experts see no way in slowing down their rising costs unless current inflation trends can be reversed. To do this, they contend, government spending must be drastically reduced, The latest cost of living ad- justment to military and civilian pensions, which took effect last August 1. boosted federal pension expenses by $800 million dollars yearly. Since 1967. there have been other increases, These are some of the rising government costs that President Ford believes must be slowed dow n if the federal government is to avoid a financial crisis of its own. Whether a majority in Congress " ill agree is debatable, . . . EDUCATIONAL EFFORT IN SPEAKING FOR THESE TINY ONES WHO CANNOT SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES 1 OUR FILE Advertisement, The Cincinnati Post, rebruary 19. 1973 by Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky Right to Life of Utahs Hamilton W. Riverton, president of largest farm group, said the reward is being offered to encourage people traveling in rural areas to be alert for any evidence on the killings which might be useful to law enforcement officials. In any criminal act, especially those in rural areas, law enforcement relics heavily on alert citizens w ho will cooperate with officials. We hope our reward offer, added to those of other groups and the state, will bring results. Hamilton said. The Farm Bureau leader would not speculate on various theories of what is behind the and widespread mysterious killings, but he called them perplexing and costly to growers who own the animals. Hamilton expressed confidence the culprits will eventually be caught. The reward offer is effective immediately and expires April 15. 1976. unless extended. Owners of animals killed and mutilated are not eligible for the reward money. GROUP PILLS FOR EUTHANASIA PUSHES DYING Die Wanderer. Provision of lethal bedside pills for the dying" to take if they feel they cannot stand any more pain is the latest idea of Britains Euthanasia Society according to a report by RNs. The society has made attempts to get a bill through Parliament w hich would permit euthanasia on a voluntary basis, but they have failed. At a press conference in London, the agencys vice president. Sir George Thomson, said it was considering the possibility of seeking an amendment to the Suicide Act. This would make it legal for a doctor to leave pills by a bedside. The press conference coincided with warnings by a London GOVERNMENT You will soon be able to the federal government knows about you. out what Under the new' privacy law. several new sources of information arc being made available for any American citizen who wants to know w here he can obtain any data the government may have collected n him. The new rules will be a published in their entirety-- in booklet that-i- scheduled to come off the Government Printing Of- dices presses in December. It will be available to everyone for a price still to be determined. Later this month, the Federal Register w ill publish a digest of all federal filing systems that mightinformation contain on will dividuals. This include the ind ividuals on whom categories of files have been maintained and the procedures to follow and the officials to con- government tact to obtain personal files, Under present plans, this digest will be distributed to members of Congress and individuals will be able to obtain free s in-reti- copies by writing their Congressmen, Note. The federal government bas more than 1.3 billion records that focus on the lives of nearly every person in the U.S. Beware of false prophets, which come to you sheeps clothing, but inwardly they are ravening -- Matthew 7:15 wolves. in Elmo 1 1 . IN A MAJOR CONTINUING The Utah Farm Bureau Federation has announced it will inpay a $2,500 reward for formation leading to the arrest and conviction of livestock mutilation killers in Utah. Conservative member - of Parliament that groups arc already conducting a widespread and subtle campaign to case the way for a new Euthanasia bill into to be introduced Parliament. Hugh Rossi told a packed meeting in north London that, as in the case of the new Abortion Act. pressure for the new euthanasia measure is being built up by HUMANISTS. AGNOSTICS AND MILITANT ATHEISTS! At the Euthanasia Societys press conference, a pamphlet was distributed which suggested that at present a doctor could be prosecuted under the Suicide Act for saving someone who tried to commit suicide. It was stated that the society had been advised that a person who left a note saying he was committing suicide and forbidding any interference could, under the present law. prosecute anyone who did interfere. well-financ- ed "Your character is built by what you stand for; your reputation by what you fall for." |