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Show Page 6 The Utah Independent May 6, 1976 The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand The Paper That Dares To Take after billions in modern education? Are our cities safer or is Speech presented by the housing problem solved? Have Vernon B. Romney the professors of economics and Utah Attorney General other assorted overpaid experts at Louisiana City Attorneys Fall stabilized our money, balanced the in Baton Rouge, , Conference budget? Have billions of dollars Louisiana abroad bought us a single friend? Where, I ask, has all that money According to learned reports ' gone? What now of all the great and sundry polls, the U.S. is today rhetorical promises saying, Only a experiencing a period of time few more dollars, only a few characterized by widespread disthousand more in personnel and trust in government. As an elected we will solve this or that problem? and public official, I know that this alienation from . One of our more, prudent Senators in Washington reportedly spoke government is likely to be a jusout against inflation by pointing to tifiable reaction to the never-endin- g his own belief in thrift: After all, stream of empty promises he said, here a hundred billion and from Washington's emanating there a hundred billion before federal bureaucracy. you know it, it adds up. All of us here deplore the fact Well, my friends, it is high that our citizens lose their trust in time that we sealize once and for all government and its lawful that government undertakes sim- -. processes. Nevertheless, we must, ply too many things that cannot be recognize what caused todays loss done by a democratic government. of faith in our government which In fact, I thinlc Washington is only 200 years ago emerged as one of the greatest monuments to undertaking some things that cannot be done at all. All this has human freedom and dignity. resulted in frustration and distrust. from alienation Todays The growth of governmental government is not the product of. can be measured in terms of Watergate or any recent power dollars spent, bureaucrats emdevelopment alone. Todays distrust of government is the ployed, and by the additional social spheres it' controls. cumulative and gradual disenAt the beginning of World chantment with the basic, notion War I, 60 years ago, our federal that by Some miracle called was $725 million. By fiscal Washington, D.C." our problems budget 1970, it had risen to nearly 200 in Utah or Louisiana can be billion dollars. Today it is another properly interpreted and then 100 billion dollars past that figure, scientifically cured. or 305 billion dollars. To be exact. It is f nally becoming apparent to us Americans that there is an end In . other words, the Federal to what any government can and Government today spends better shputd do. The question now is, than 300 times the amount of what it did only 55 years ago. Defenders will those in Washington come to of rampant spending respond that the same wise conclusion? Will this live better today than we did we cumbersome giant we call the Federal Government attempt to then. One might agree that today further enlaige its vast sphere, or we live twice as well as 55 years ago or even 10 times as well but 300 will it respond to the obvious lessons of the contemporary political times as well? after all that and economic situation? These money? By 1967 there were about 12 million Americans employed in recent lessons should have taught us that our economic survival and governmental services. I have been the confirmation of faith in told that soon there will be more bureaucrats in the Department of government can only be achieved Agriculture than there are farmers by the reduction of the costly federal machine, by the in America.' Federal expenditures curtailment of spendthrift have tripled since only 20 years and few will even venture a legislation and by the rejection of ago, guess as to how many federal agenpromises. Mostim.-portantlcies are in existence at this time. our state and local When Eisenhower left office, there governments must, begin to were 45 domestic social programs; exercise the powers and resa short time later, under Johnson, ponsibilities our Founding Fathers allocated to there were no fewer than 435 of constitutionally these, and today this figure has them unfettered by federal inlikely increased again. As early as trusions. Now all this has left us, after 1968, Democratic. Congressman William Ross and his staff idenmany years, with more problems, tified 1,571 programs of which 478 less power to do anything alone belonged to the Department meaningful about them, and a national debt that can only be of Health, Education and Welfare. He concluded that No one, interpreted by an astronomer. In knows exactly how the light of these facts, the current anywhere, federal programs there are. popular "loss of confidence in many This year your familys share of the government can hardly be called 300 plus billion dollar current Many premature impatience. is $7,500.00 and this all years and billions of dollars later, budget what have we got to show from on top of a combined public and private debt of $1.5 trillion. federal management of our affairs? Interest on this debt alone is more Is it really progress that John than $1,000.00 per second. Wayne would most likely have to ride the prairies today wearing a What concerns me as' a legal hard hat to satisfy federal officer and lawyer most, is that regulations, while being strapped many of the federal agencies to his horse by a mandatory safety created to control our activities are belt? empowered to issue rules and Seriously now, are we today regulations with quasi-judicimore secure from our enemies? Do force. Such agencies have our old have greater security? Are authority not only to issue there now less poor? Is there less regulations, but to grant or deny crime, more food, cleaner air, licenses, issue Are health? our children award greater orders, damages, and in general compel both individuals and business corporations to do this or refrain from doing that. Unlike the customary division of governmental powers which forms the basis of our American system, such administrative agencies of the Federal Government have the incredible status of combining the . ky y, . al - cease-and-des- ist . functions of legislators, judges, and juries all in themselves while they are, at the same time, neither elected nor directly responsible to the people. Federal agencies are important factors of the growth of federal power and the insatiable appetite Washington displays for more and more tax dollars to spend. Already, according to the New York TAx Foundation, the typical American now spends his first 1 12 days of the year working solely for direct or indirect taxes levied against him. All in all, the U.S. Government absorbs 43.5 percent of our personal income. This is twice the share of 40 years Not infrequently we are ago. exposed to the political performances of our new cars. You may rest assured that the EPA must bear the responsibility of these developments to a very large measure. Moreover, according to the Washington editor for Barrons, the gadgets applied to our cars by the EPA now result in the use of 300,000 extra barrels of gasoline a day, raising fuel prices, and ironically, probably adding to pollution. In the field of governmental controls in housing, the picture is equally dismal and appalling. Time does not permit here to go into details. Suffice it to say that the federal HUD office admitted that nearly a fourth of all the government-sponsore- d housing was either already in foreclosure or would be within 10 years. Working together with the EPA is OSHA, another Frankenstein with a Washington, D.C. address. Business Week reported in 1972 that certain plans between OSHA and the EPA would cost the U.S. industry $31 billion over the next three years to be absorbed, as always, by the customer. But I need not here use sam- pies which are far from home. In Utah, EPA has come in from its Washington base and attempted to pressure local officials with threats and strong-artactics. Knowing about the needs and nothing traditions of the citizens of our demagoguery demanding that the government simply tax the business sector more heavily. We all know that in the end there is only one taxpayer, and that is inevitably the taxpaying consumer who holds the bag. Many of the taxes that finance the central machine are indirect and not easily seen.- - When all the taxes that are levied against state, EPA functionaries and businesses are producers presumed, nevertheless, to take added up and finally passed on to over zoning ordinances of which the consumer, there are 151 taxes they were totally ignorant and on a single loaf of bread, a hundred proposing gas rationing in the on eggs, 87 on a quart of milk, and metropolitan area. This last idea no less than 700 differenc forms of would, have led to only one taxation on a house. result the driving to nearby comNo. wonder that our farmers munities to gas-u- p and resulting inand workers do not seem to get crease in expense and gasoline ahead while prices are climbing poi'ution. Then the EPA planners higher and higher. Onlyduringthe opteJ for the building of last 12 months our average grocery ditional express lane for buses on bill has increased by 22. When all state roads which would have cost the inflation is taken into account our state a tidy $20 million extra. at 5, the taxes are subtracted, All this was climaxed with the inwhich amount to 43.5, and when sistence that the downtown all the additional costs which are business district would not be due to governmental regulations permitted to supply any parking are taken off at about 10 to 15, ' for 6 hours each day. It seems inthe breadwinner is lucky to get credible that we must be taxed to home with about 27 cents of every Rube support these modern-da- y dollar he earned. and their Goldbergs Farmers must now install games. Many of these expenses come roll bars on tractors, even then the from financing government roll bars cost more than the tractor. programs which were designed and An owner of a printing plant was publicized to alleviate poverty in OSHA to replace America or improve the lives of compelled by hundreds of dollars worth of new Americans in general. According toilet seats because they did not to U.S. News and World Report have open fronts. for March 25, 1974, in spite of these Yes, gentlemen, OSHA efforts, today almost 16 million doesnt forget to look anywhere. people are getting subsidized food This particular toilet seat was in stamps valued at $7.2 billion tax clear violation of subsection 3ii of dollars annually. William Grede, former president of the National section 1910.141 of OSHA regulations, which says: Every Association of Manufacturere, water closet shall have a hinged observed that it costs business $75 open front seat made of substantial billion a year just to prepare forms material having a nonabsorbent required by the government to finish." Well, I dont know if I can comply with regulations all this top that as to how far the federal to be passed on to the consumer. bureaucracy has come or stooped, Some 250,000 federal workers do whichever you prefer. nothing but file forms and papers, and some 130 million man-houI submit to you in all are lost every year to the task of seriousness, that it is imperative satisfying the bureaucracy. The that within our system we must Arizona Republic estimated this start the process of decenof business tralization of power, from the year that fully 15 operating costs arise from Federal Government to the states government-require- d bookkeeping and localities. The lessons of hisand administrative programs. tory demand, as do the facts so Recent shutdowns of automobile clearly at hand, that, when the plants are due to slumping sales government tries to do everything which are largely caused by the it must do everything badly. The added expense and bad mileage process of the last decades must be m 10-1- Continued from page 1 change took place between Snyder and Because where stopped nowI government creates hundfeds or even thousands of costly and ineffective programs, spends billions of dollars which lead to chronic deficit budgets and inflation, it is always and without fail resulting in the governments attempt to control the economy. Why? Because government would rather denounce businessmen as racketeers than confess its own heavy hand in inflation. And when the economy is controlled, when individuals working conditions are unreasonably or in many instances even arbitrarily dictated, then the government will surely have overstepped that clear and restrictive delineation within which our constitution so emphatically designed to confine it. Long Bunker: Negotiations Ambassador are being carried out on the authoriza- tion of the President. Mr. Snyder: Madam Chairman Rep. Leonor Sullivan (D. Mo.) at this point I would like to ask unanimous consent to all of the newspaper article from the Chicago Tribune of July 8, 1967. I will not read it all, but its story is head- lined New Treaty Perils CanaL Ford d Terms found The item is And the shocking by GOP leader. r headline on the carry-ovestory on another page: Canal Treaty Terms to Shock U.S. Public Representative Ford warns. Now, the article is consistent with the headlines if not more so. In my opinion a comparison of the proposed 1967 treaty' as printed in the Chicago Tribune on July 15, 1967, and the eight points Secretary Kissinger agreed to F:eb. 7, 1974, convinces me that the current proposal envisions a more complete surrender of the Zone than did the 1967 draft. -- . Hamilton put it rather succinctly when he stated: Power over a mans subsistence is power over his will." am convinced that the ruinous trend that has brought our beloved nation into this era of distrust and disrespect will turn about as we realize as a people, in our own states and communities, that the only helping hand which we can depend on to solve our problems is the one that is grown right at the end of our own arm. I In view of then - Congressman Fords very vehement opposition to President Johnsons treaty, what directive ordirec- tives has the Department of State re- ceived from President Ford saying he to negotiate turning over to the Panama canal, or supporting the desires-yo- Department seeking this end purpose, within some period of time? Ambassador Bunker: Mr. Congress- man, we are proceeding to negotiate guidelines .established by the President Joth by President Nixon and resi ent Ford. Mr. Snyder: I do not think that is responsive to my question. I want to know what directive or directives the State Department has received from President Ford to do this? Ambassador Bunker: We have been directed to proceed with the negotiations on the basis of the guidelines Mr. Snyder: To give it up? To give up the Canal Zone over a period of time? Ambassador Bunker: To give up the Canal Zone after a period of time, that . Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. -- Shakespeare . ...your life may depend on someone elses guts and his on yours. John Dollar d DO not-so-fun- YOU KNOW? That a proposed NEW CONSTITU- TION FOR AMERICA has already been written? That it was subsidized by YOUR TAXES? That it would create a DICTATORSHIP? That its introduction is planned as the climax of the AMERICAN BICENTEN- NIAL Celebration? LISTEN NOW TO: THE SECRET NEW CONSTITUTION FOR AMERICA CASSETTE TAPE by rs Peter Beter 1 $6.00 postpaid Order from: AUDIO BOOKS, INC. Box 16428 Fort Worth, TX 76133 Aik for froo information about our ontiro lino of talking cassotto"l k k -- be-inclu- FREEDOM IS PEOPLE ham-strun- time-consumi- ng "forsc today than whcn Ford madc lhose remarks, Thc soft underbelly, of the United States from Texas to Florida, the East Coast, and in fact, the whole country east of the Mississippi threatened that berth in Cuban by nuclear armed Soviet Submarine pens less than 100 miles from our border, 1 1 U-bo- ats de WE THE By Thomas Paine & The American Buckeroo people, by the peopfe and for the people. It is a land not only of opportunity, but also a land that, throughout its 200 year history has shared a certain sense of common destiny among its people. That destiny is freedom and We The People make it happen, Thc first 100 of the American Bicentennial we have traveled throughout the Western United States. During our travels 'we have met with, and talked to, many Americans all kinds of Some 12,000 to 15,000 Cuban troops have actu- . . ally received combat training under fire in Angola. Cuban schools of subversion have trained thou- sands of students from every Latin American country ' and our own, in guerrilla and sabotage techniques, as in well as all aspects of Marxist-Leninlphilosophy, and agitation propaganda. that unquestionably we could, if we chose, maintain Yet, said Snyder, the .United States is preparing Americans from the Rocky our sovereign-lik- e to turn over the effective control of both the Canal Mountains to the West Coast. but this would produce powers, Zone and the canal to Gen. Torrijos, who just this increasing hostility, he contended January paid a state visit to Cuba and who has been How all this squares with what the President playing footsie with Castro for several years. said in San Antonio is difficult to comprehend. Presidential Press Secretary Ron .Nessen was Nor does it square with his statement ip Dallas on clearly flustered when responding to reporters on April 10: I can simply say and say it very em- this subject last week. He first said that any new America?" WbTenateit buckle phatically that the United States will never give treaty will have to.guarantee the interests of the u is a belt buckle designed to up its defense rights to the Panama Canal and will United States and the continued rights to defend commemorate the 200th never give up its operational rights as far as Pand operate the canal. ama is concerned. niversaiy of the United States of On the following day, April 15, Nessen indicated America and We The People. It is Whether the President is deliberately misleading that the President aimed to produce a treaty guard- - not just an ordinary buckle its a people or doesnt know what is being done in his ing U.S. interests for only" 30 to 50 years, about the feeling, a concept seeking to dispel fact remains that surrender ot the Canal name,-thlength of time the President allegedly feels the apathy and regenerate faith in, and Zone and the canal to the Panamanian canal will be useful (though many experts believe it participation by, We The People. Gen; Omar will be useful a lot government, whose dictator-presidenThe initial response to our longer than this). Torrijos, has been cozying up to Castro, makes, no What Nessen didnt disclose is how those interests qestion: ''wha do yu thik sense, unless one believes that the Administration y doesnt even have the capacity to, stare down the could really be protected, when, under the proposed been hastily in the negative. treaty, U.S. jurisdiction over the Canal Zone would threats of a with fewer than two mil- Its going down hill. be terminated in just three years not 30 or 50 lion citizens. Is Ford saying that he is such a weak after the treatys ratification. This would mean that UScd President that he cant even stand up to Gen. Torri-undt0 be and could be bett'r'the or succesits Torrijos government jos should he threaten to sabotage the canal? sor rather than the U.S. would be responsible for The Panama Canal, which we obtained by treaty security in the Canal Zone, where some 1,000 U.S. jn 1993 js free worlds well being. It armed forces l0 personnel and some 3,500 U.S. citizens is vital both economically and militarily, with nearly who work for the Panama Canal Co. are presently h duringttefct 100 days of the of the worlds merchant fleet of ships of housed. Bicentennial, 61 of the initial 1,000 gross registered tons and over using it annually. And how could we be assured that our interests replies were negative in nature; The United States, Japan and the United Kingdom would be protected when our government would be 33 were positive; 6 no are three of its biggest users. in Panamanians Most of the initially putting charge of the canal at all comment. Former Commander in Chief of the U.S.. Armed levels before new ended? negative long operating responses, admitted any treaty. Forces in the Pacific, Adm. Harry Felt, stressed its Under terms of the Administrations proposals, having taken America, .) military importance to Sen. Jesse Helms then, Panama would take effective control of both Democracy, Freedom for granted on April 10 of this year. During the Quemoy, Laos 80 longthat they did not fully the Zone and the. canal long before any new treaty and Vietnam crises, he said, the Panama Canal question, and unetnd became important for reinforcement and logistical actually expired. Moreover, once the Panamanians switched t0 either a p0Sltlvc or a had effective control, they would be in a far stronger bewildered attitude about America support. During the peak year in the Vietnam War, he said, 656 Military Sealift Command chartered and what it means to them. 77 of ships passed through the canal. those who responded negatively Does student of affairs believe .the that foreign any admitted to not having voted in as Said Rep. Snyder last week; I am shocked that U.S. would reclaim control of the canal suddenly much as 11 years. Somanyyearsof Mr. Ford as President now is not only going along after ceded in most our of new a just having rights spectating would make a with, but is actually directing an even more shock-M- r. if Panama decided to boot us out plainer out ofjust about anybody, suddenly in8 settlement than the one he opposed as House before we were required to go? It is difficult to be- - Freedom can never be taken for Minority Leader. In 1967, said Snyder, Ford was lieve that any Administration would retake control granted. To do so is to lose quoted as saying; under these circumstances, but it defies all rational it forever, With Cuba under control of the Soviet Union via thought to believe it would Its up to us. We The People, happen under a Ford- Castro and increased Communist subversion in Latin Administration. in President other to Kissinger Ford, preserve and protect our right America, a, Communist threat to the canal is a real words, is preparing to surrender U.S. rights 'in and desire for freedom. It takes Any action on our part to meet a threat danger and the sooner the American people know fort, lots of effort. It takfes the national security of the United State's about it thc better. involving To participation, too. spectate in 1 1 - st . ' An-an- e left-leani- ng t,' mini-count- ry er left-leani- ng 1 esni . one-fift- (R.-N.C- fr corn-trea- ty multi-million-doll- ar Dr. May 6, 1976 The Utah Independent Page 7 should not be g by the need for . consultation with a government that might be reluctant to cooperate in the defense, or possibly be in opposition to our best interests. Discussing the same Subject on the same date fore the same Panama Canal subcommittee, S. Morey Bell, thc deputy U.S. negotiator, told the congressmen that it was no longer acceptable for the U.S. to keep its sovereign-lik- e powers over both the canal and the Canal Zone. How the majority of Panamanians may have felt two years ago, he said, - makes no difference because now they are opposed to our present role there. Bell acknowledged sub-title- Alexander ago, fore the new treaty expires. The days of U.S. control over this vital, strategic waterway are clearly numbered if Ford gets his way. Panama,' Bunker told the congressmen, has made no secret of its desire to have our canal .operating and defense rights terminate by the end of the century. While Bunker said that we would like to hold these rights.for a longer period, he strongly suggested that even these rights will definitely be relinquished. Ambassador Bunker; Mr. Snyder: On whose specific authorization is the State Department pursuing its stated goal of yielding the canal and the Zone to the Republic of Panama? - - Stand FORD DETERMINED TO GIVE AWAY CANAL TALK BY VERN ROMNEYGIVEN IN LOUISIANA IN 1975 wiser A -- it -- Snyder: Longer period of time. And what are the directives? Are they written memorandums? Ambassador Bunker: The directives are in written memorandum. Mr. Snyder: Signed by the President? Ambassador Bunker: Signed by the President. Mr. Snyder: Under what.date? Ambassador Bunker Varying various dates. The time periods involved in this giveaway are not far off, said Snyder. Though the Kentucky lawmaker didnt reveal it, Human Events learned that Ambassador Bunker told the subcommittee that the Canal Zone government controlled by the United States and overseeing 553 square miles of land would cease to exist within six months of any new treaty. All jurisdiction over the Zone would be relinquished in three years. The date on which the U,S. would formally turn over control of the canal and Us operations to Panama might be around the year 2000 it still has' to be worked out - though Bunker points out that Panamanian citizens will be placed at all levels of canal operation long be- - TAX PAID, NO FARE Mass transit is a massive tax burden, a burden so massive that if every American paid their own equal share of just the federal subsidies to mass transit, all of us, each and every man, woman and child, would have paid $75. Riders of the mass transit systems are being carried by the taxpayers who pay the no fare portion of the rides. Some people regard free enterprise as a tiger to be shot. Others look at it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a . healthy horse pulling a sturdy wagon. -- Sir Winston Church'ill Portent Of Rhodesia's Future? In 1964, Malawi seceded from the Central African Federation. Malawi borders Rhodesia and has been considered as one of her more civilized black-rule- d Tens of neighbors.thousands of Christians are - and tortured slaughtered because of their being John Hancock: shall...free ourselves from those unmannerly pillagers who impudently tell us that they are licensed by an act of Parliament to' thrust their dirty hands into the of every pockets American. We religious beliefs. Members of the Jehovahs Witnesses sect are being religious forced to exist as animals, unable to own property, hold jobs or even grow food to eat. They are frequently beaten, tortured and put to death. In recent weeks, thousands of them have been herded into concentration camps, there to await death by genocide. -- National Spotlight Come home with your shield or on it. - A mother in Ancient Greece apathetic dejection ,is granted, and to lose, freedoms and rights many before us have lives. Freedom is to take for those basic for which given their We The People. (For further information on Bicentennial write to Collectors' Buckle American Buckeroo, 30 Hillside Avenue, Salt Lake Gty, Utah 84103.). We The People - It amuses me to see business spending so much money every year to get me back when I was there in - the first place. - And all they needed to do was give me some service, and extend a little courtesy. -- Grocers Journal ' |