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Show 1976 ELECTION INFORMATION PAGE 8 THE SCOTT REPORT PAGE 10 The JU (Independent Dedicated To The Constitution, Liberty, Morality, and Truth '&3zirtrtt1'irick'k ick'kiKitirkiritirkitititIciririe'ic'ic'ic'ir'irtrir'it'triHrir'rtririrtr'iir Vol. 7, No. 16 Salt Lake City) Utah 84115 rX C3 N election season. Im a candidate Republican for nomination O' unemployment. Only this time not And inmore than 10. it was 12. flation wasn't Now, in this election year 1976, were told were coming out of this recession. Just because inflation and unemployment rates have fallen, to what they were at the worst of the previous recession. If history repeats itself will we be talking recovery four years from now merely because weve reduced inflation from 25 to 12? The fact is, well never build a lasting economic recovery by going deeper into debt at a faster rate than we ever have before. It took this nation 166 years until the middle of World War II to finally accumulate a debt of $95 billion. It took this administration just the last 12 months to add $95 billion to the debt. And this administration of has run up almost our total national debt in just these short nineteen months. Inflation is the cause of reces 7, the for President. But I hope that you who are Independents and Democrats will let me talk to you also tonight because the problems facing our country are problems that just dont bear any party label. In this election season the White House is telling us a solid economic recovery is taking place. It claims a slight drop in unemployment. It says that prices arent going up as fast, but they are still going up, and that the stock market RONALD REAGANS has shown some gains: But, in fact, NATION-WID- E things seem just about as they were TELEVISION ADDRESS back in the 1972 election year. Remember, we were also coming out of a recession then. Inflation Wednesday, March 31, 1976 had been running at around about .7. Good evening to all of you Unemployment from California. Tonight Id like Remember, too, the upsurge and to talk to you about issues. Issues the optimism lasted through the which I think are involved or. election year and into 1973. Then, should be involved in this primary the roof fell in. Once again we had 6. The T-M- en 6, one-four- th sion and unemployment. And were not going to have real prosperity or recovery until we stop fighting the symptoms and start fighting the disease. Theres only one cause for in- flation government spending more than government takes in. The cure is a balanced budget. Ah, but they tell us, 80 of the budget is uncontrollable. Its fixed by laws The laws passed by Congress. be can passed by Congress repealed if by Congress. And, Congress is unwilling to do this, then isnt it time we elect a Congress that will? Soon after he took office, Mr. Ford promised he would end inflation. Indeed, he declared war on inflation. And, we all donned those WIN buttons to Whip Inflation Now. ' Unfortunately the war if it ever really started was soon over. Mr. Ford without WIN button, appeared on TV and promised he absolutely would not allow the Federal deficit to exceed $60 billion (which incidentally was $5 billion more thatn the biggest previous deficit wed ever had). Later he told us it might be as much as $70 billion. ' Now we learn its billion or more. Then came a White House proposal for a $28 billion tax cut, to be matched by a $28 billion cut in the proposed spending not in present spending, but in the proposed spending in the new budget. Well, my question then and my question now is, if there was $28 billion in the ndw budget that cduld be cut, what was it doing there in the first place? Unfortunately, Washington doesnt feel the same pain from inflation that you and I do. As a matter of fact, government makes a profit on inflation. For instance, last July Congress vaccinated itself against that pain. It very quietly passed legislation (which the President signed into law) which $80 padlocked his office; attached his bank account, and tried to sell his home. This dentist's counterattack: a $1.7 million countersuit. By David Green, DM Associate Editor To say that the incident has ruined the doctors life would be melodramatic. But it would also be accurate. In the past five years, Dr. Gordon Foster, as Ill call him, has aged 15 years. Now 54, he resembles a man of 65 in appearance and attitude. He consumes cigarettes at the rate of six an hour about three times as many as he smoked five years ago. Dentistry, the profession he once practiced and loved, is now a constant trial. Where he once happily worked weeks, he can now endure no more than 20 hours. And his work, once generally recognized as excellent, is now, by the dentists own admission, barely adequate. Dr. Fosters wife, Ruth, has gone through a hell of her own. In the five years since 1970, she has been hospitql-ridde- n almost as long as she has been at home and last year alone was in the hospital on three separate occa80-ho- ur sions. Indeed, Dr. Foster has gone through outskirts of town. And prior to that he served as a dentist in the U.S. Army where he rose to the position of Chief of Dental Services at an Army hospital in Germany. Practicing in a poor area, Dr. Foster has in recent years depended for much of his income on Medicaid. Indeed, in 1972 the dentist billed Medicaid for some $80,000 making him the single largest Medicaid dentist in his county. With Medicaid serving as a solid base, the doctors gross income for the years 1969 through 1973 was quite impressive reaching a high of $131,400 in 1971, and never falling below $61,700 (in 1969). His income after expenses, however, was far less spectacular exceeding $60,000 just once (in 1972), and generally remaining below $40,000. Still, Dr. Foster had a good living and a thriving practice. At its peak his practice e employed a second dentist and a hygienist, as well as a dental assistant and full-tim- and continues to endure a nightmare that most people only read about. And he is a victim just as certainly and completely as any political prisoner in a dictatorship. To begin at the beginning, Dr. Gordon Foster is an orthodontist who practices in a small Pennsylvania industrial town. For the past 10 years he has been living and working in a largely black, neighborhood low-inco- on the me At the request of his counsel, the true name and identity of "Dr. Foster" are being withheld, since his case iastill before the courts. Identifying details have been altered, but in all other respects his story is as we describe it. receptionist. Then in November of 1970 his practice and the life he had built began to fall apart. It began innocently enough when an Internal Revenue Service agent contacted Dr. Foster and asked permission to audit his 1969 federal tax return. Dr. Foster consented and the audit began. It would continue for 18 months. During that time the agent occasionally returned for more information and the dentist always provided it. When the Continued on page 7 |