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Show December 4. 1975 The Utah Independent Page The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand d CLICHES OF SOCIALISM a devotee ot private property, free market, limited government principles states his position, he is inevitably confronted with a barrage of socialistic cliches. When Failure to answer these has many a for freedom. spokesman Here are suggested answers to some of the most persistent of the "Cliches of Socialism." These are not the only answers or even the best possible answers; but they may help you or others to develop better explanations of the ideas on liberty that are the only effective displacement for the empty promises of socialism. silenced effectively The government should do for the people what the people are unable to do for themselves. DEATH MARCH OF THE DOLLAR ( ontiiiuvd from page 2 fjroater. but an extra $3 to $1 billion intm-s- t on the increased debt resulting from the refund. Isnt the lesson of New York City inoush? 'I'he debt was increased every year, hoping it would seem, for some windfall or magic that would wipe out the indebtedness. Will we go on increasing the federal debt, pay more interest, and higher taxes, with our minds closed to the fact that one day we must not only meet the operating expenses, but vastly swollen interest charges as well. It is pleasant to increase salaries and pensions; to retire earlier, to have more holidays, more sick leave, privileges and benefits. Have we forgotten that the day of reckoning is coming? Some cities and states are not yet bankrupt. Will they stop spending before they reach that sad state? Our nation is already bankrupt in the sense that it has used up of the value of the dollar. Will we destroy the remaining quarter, or will we begin now to balance the budget? Cant we see the wolves of financial debt and disaster yapping at our heels? Government transfer payments have increased in 30 years. They are called income and are considered a part of the gross national product. They add nothing to the total wealth, but merely indicate that wealth has been taken from some citizens and given to others. If I started paying my wife a salary of $10,000 a year for keeping our home, that would add nothing to the wealth of the country, but it would increase the gross national product by that amount. We can put the gross national product almost as high as we want to by transferring wealth from one to another, but it adds nothing to the total store of wealth in our country. Thats why it is unsound to measure increasing debt in terms of a percentage of the gross national product. When debt can be considered a part of the gross national product, we pave the way for pushing it to the skies while still maintaining a satisfactory percentage relationship to the gross national product. We have had too much clever bookkeeping for our own good. We have large numbers of students living on unemployment pay who should be working at some of the menial jobs available to them. Our newspapers are filled with want ads for which no workers are available. There are about 1200 advisory committees who are supposed to be advising the federal government on its farflung activities. They all cost money. Do we want to go further into debt to pay for these frills? If not, wed better be demanding that our congressmen put an end to them. We have marched the dollar of the to extinction. Unless we the way march, the restop maining quarter of the distance will be travelled much more quickly. Our public ofTirials could do it if we demand it. The trouble is. we are not demanding it, but are seeking more handouts, juicy plums, increased benefits, and the whole package. 'The politicians give it to us rather than face defeat at the next election. This is the process by which we are picking the last bone of the last taxpayer bare. Answer: city, state, nation and citizen live within our means. three-quarte- rs 30-fo- ld If it be consistent with right principle to have a formal agency of society of delegated, limited and specified powers government it follows that there are principles, if we could but find them, which the prescribe appropriate limitations. The search for these principles has proved elusive, as history seems to attest. Failure to find them has led some distinguished thinkers called socialists to resolve in favor of the omnipresent State; let sometimes government control everything! Other thinkers, who refuse to approve either anarchism or socialism, settle for what is more a plausibility than a principle: The government should do for the people what the people are unable to do for themselves. Thus, some avowed conservatives lend support to the unwittingly, In practice, this socialists. plausibility works as follow's: The people express inability in that they will not voluntarily invest the fruits of their own labor in an enterprise that promises to deliver mail to those who choose to isolate themselves . So, let the government deliver the mail with Rural Free Delivery. The people, when organizing railroads, will not voluntarily extend their services to communities with few passengers and little freight. Therefore, have government compel unprofitable operations on the private roads or, as in many other countries, form a government road to perform such services". The people will not willingly reclaim land for agriculture at a time when government pays people to withdraw good farm land from Therefore, let the production. government carry out uneconomic irrigation and reclamation projects. The people will not willingly and with their own funds build huge hydroelectric projects to serve areas that can be served more economically by other forms of generated power. Hence, we have TVA and a growing socialism in the power and light industry. The most example this system" of determining of governmental scope is in the field of astronautics. People simply will not, on their own, invest billions of dollars for astronautical weather reporting, for photographs of the moons hind side, or for radio conversations a century or more hence with a people who might possibly exist in interstellar space. Ergo, let government do these up-to-da- te 11 well-deserv- ed three-quarte- rs Economics Department NORTHWOOD INSTITUTE " " things the people are unable to do for themselves! yes, capital is attracted, regardless of the amount required, to do the job. Witness our larger This formula for governmencorporations, bigger than Hoover tal action implies that the people Dam or what have you! Government has no right to lack the resources to perform such services for themselves. But, use force or coercion for any has no magic purpose whatsoever that does not government as the moral right of each purchasing power no resources other than those drawn from individual from whom the private purchasing power. What government derives its power and we have here is a rejection of the authority. Leonard E. Read market, a substitution of pressure group political power for the For further information on this voluntary choices of the individuals who vote with their own point, see The Law by Frederic dollars. This criterion for the scope Bastiat (76 pp. SI. 00 paper; $1.75 of the state leads away from private cloth) and my Government: An enterprise toward the omnipotent Ideal Concept (149 pp. SI. 50 paper: $2.00 cloth), both obState, which is socialism. The enormity of a project is no tainable from The Foundation for Education, Inc.. excuse for governmental interven- Economic Irvington-on-HudsoNew York. votes market tionism. When the pre-exi- st n. tire OKI) is my defence: and my God is the rock of my refuge. Isulm lN:22 I NBCs TODAY show tries to' Guthrie, known communist folk f perhaps portray important facets of one snLr ad star hun-sta- te per week as part of its bicentennial program. When it got Idaho it devoted a lot of exposure to leftist Frank Church, presently busy with a non-sto- p campaign to ruin our CIA. Church is written up in Vol. 1 of the Biographical Dictionary of the Left. He was a big wheel at the farewell party flung for Burmese Socialist U Thant, who retired from the top post in the disgraceful, discredited, Nations. I have the program for that party, in photos of which we find Nelson Rockefeller hob- nobbing with such high toned characters as former Beatle John Lennon and his Asiatic wife Yoko were Ono. Featured at the shin-di- g ComNelson. Frank Church and munist Pete Seeger. On the program for the U socialist ONE WORLD we find under the listing SPONSORS many people who 1 would just have to call odds and ends, with the emphasis on An assortment of odds". republicans and democrats, highs and lows, young and old, businessmen and artists, busy and loafers (like Jackie Onassis). You name it they were there if they are either the shadowy leaders, or the duped followers, of Nations ONE PLOT. WORLD Let me list a few guests. Besides Frank Church and com- dis-Unit- ed hit tunes. Pete dreds f left-wiSeeger, protege of Guthrie, long af-t- o filiated in one way or another with the cult of andor leB ar out wnS movements. Of Seeger it is written in the Biographical Dictionary of the For many years he was from major TV excluded aPpearances. but he is now (1969 and later) a familiar sight on CBS. ng sm L; H's constant Communist propaganda line receives rave reviews from the left wing and liberal press, folk Street marcher and snger Joan Baez. The Beatles, who dkl more to start a generation on its way t0 Perdition than any other group. The Rolling Stones have now come to the front. From the Bcatlcs emerged JOHN LEN- NON, who was at the U THANT-Thant ROCKEFELLERPETE GER United Nations SEE-eve- nt ONE WORLD PARTY! Bac t0 JUDY COLLINS, Well, NBC got around to Colorado With the wonders and week. beauties of Pikes Peak and the national parks to display, most of le the TV time was spent with bling Barbara Walters flaunting JUDY COLLINS at the piano singing Beatle songs! Read up on Jndy in the Biographical Dic-th- e tionary of the Left! Maybe will make the next edition. Barbara She should. would Rockefeller, hy Jus-Ba- ld munist Pete Seeger, Roger Humphrey, Kennedy and old win. Justice Wm. O. Douglas. tice Duglas want to be fooling around at a Prestigious party with (pro-RussiEaton Cyrus millionaire). W. Averill Harriman, Jhn Lennon (then under proceedings),Pete Theodore M. Hesburgh of Notre deportation JUDY and COLLINS. Seeger Dame (on Nixons enemy list), Hubert Humphrey, Jacob Javits, Because every facet of human Edward M. (Scuba) Kennedy, experience and ability is exploited McCarthy, George to promote the communist andor Eugene McGovern, the aforementioned ONE WORLD line. At that big profound world thinker Jackie soemlist farewell party were Kennedy Onassis, Sen. Harrison J. governors, a current Vice senators, represen-bee- n Yes, I have President, Williams, Jr., and leading up to it none other tatiyes, industrialists, educators, such brilliant? (and well heeled) than JUDY COLLINS! Things now begin to make thinkers as Jackie Onassis, and a sense. As NBC combs the country, stable of folk singers being used it usually portrays, at the rate of to turn the young folks leftward, f have had reprinted some of one a week, each state's he newsletters, and the official features factories, farms, mines, of this ONE history, etc. But if the state has program, WORLDER party. If you want to spawned a leading leftist, out pops Frank Church from the show on be shown how these planners reach Idaho, and when Colorado is ou and caPture and use the minds, reached, who but JUDY money or talents of ANYBODY who can bend American thought COLLINS? about leftward, write me for exhibits, free Whats important or needed stamps. (E.P. Judy? She has based her career on F Arcadian No. 1, Thornton, folk singing, and the media and leftist controlled recording com- - Myrtle Beach, S.C. 29577.) YOU SAW the JUDY panies can and do turn the talents COLLI Walters act, of willing folk singers to the sup- have wondered Whats port of the far, far left even so far yu may about JUDY to as the blatant Communist line important enough stick her on a Colorado show?" itself. Examples: Deceased Woodie Now you know. Bab-peop- dis-Unit- ed an fr 6-- NS-Barba- ra FRED W. MORRISON ANNOUNCES THE OPENING OF HIS OFFICE for the Practice of PUBLIC ACCOUNTING at 1593 East 3080 South Salt Lake City, Utah 84106 Telephone (801 ) 467-320- 9 |