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Show The Paper That Dares To Take' A Stand Page 2 The Utah Independent June 24, 1976 The (STM Independent READERS OUTLOOK Dedicated To The We like to receive Letters To The Editor. Frequently, however, these letters are much too long for us to use. For this reason, we are adopting the following policy: 1. Letters To The Editor or should be typed (double-spacean side of one written legibly on 814x11 sheet of paper. 2. We will publish these letters regularly as space permits. We appreciate the fact that some subjects require more length. In such instances they should be submitted as News Articles and will be subject to our regular editorial policies and current Morality, and Truth Constitution, Liberty, d) Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty Corinthians 3:17 mu SuiDUmnimsrfs"11 KERSHNERS COMMENTARY By Dr. Howard E. Kershner Pensions Depend Upon Productivity needs. News items Must Be Fully Documented. We want to print At latest count, 45 million people were drawing pensions in the United States. The largest group is Social Security, 32 million. Private pension plans have 7.7 million beneficiaries; state and local plans, 1.8 million; federal civil service workers, 1.4 million; military, 1.1 million, and railroad retirement, 1 million. The amount of money being paid out each year under ONLY THE TRUTH! Many (hanks. THE EDITOR Sorry we cannot print your inquests for funds. Dear Editor: l mm Utah's Largest and S7 Oakland Avenue left-winge- rs turmoil and unrest. Minorities and women with little experience are being promoted over men with more ability. The latest concept in the fire control arm of the forest service is TOTAL MOBILITY. We and the Bureau of Land Management are building an enormous air fleet that ranges 100 miles from the USSR to the state of Virginia. Smokejumpers from my base in California Independent Salt Lake City have . Utah .84 1 1 been detailed to Alaska and to Fairbanks. Weiss, Virginia and Murphy, North Carolina. Evergreen 5 is Helicopters I I Assorted copies older than 2 months 25C outside of the each Government covertly and U.S. may be owned by the government. We are contracting from Evergreen all over the country. 25 for $5.00 operating out Marietta, Georgia and Roanoke, Virginia. I bis entire air operation Evergreen I of 50 for $9.00 Subscriptions: USA $10.00 per year Foreign $15.00 per year I becoming the largest aircraft operator 12 for $2.75 12 for SI. 00 I I a smokejumper for the U.S. Forest Service for 17 years. The dangers Ive faced parachuting and fighting forest fires cant compare to the danger I am facing from in the the Forest Service. Ever since I accused them of using Communist brainwashing techniques at enforced Civil Rights training I have been a marked man. There is a deliberate attempt to get rid of the of the old back-bon- e forest service. Our leaders are deliberately creating Subscription Weekly Fastest-Growin- g have been I o, The I is could very easily be 100 for $17.50 converted to The UTAH INDEPENDENT a military type action against the conservatives country. Indeed in - this it is a in scope now. This entire operation is tied together by radio and telephone nets. I suspect that with the spotlight on the CIA, the International Conspiracy is operating through the U.S. para-milita- ry ial Name 1 (First) (Last) (Mddle) Address Number And Street) I (Stal HOW COME? How long do you think itll be before the federal government gets in the same shape as New York City - broke? J.S., Omaha, Neb. A. It already is. Planned inflation, in reality, is default, since, it means the government is paying its creditors with printing press money that has less real Q. value (less purchasing power) than the money the government originally borrowed. In other words, the government is an incorrigible, unrepentant, these pension plans is as follows. Social Security, $71.4 billion; private plans, $14.8 billion; federal civil service, $8.3 billion; state and local plans, $7.6 billion; military, $6.9 billion, and railroad retirement, $3.4 billion. During the past ten years, these payments have increased 284, to a total of $1 12.4 billion. Looking at Social Security alone, the amount paid in last year was $65.8 billion and the amount paid out was $71.4 billion. We are paying out each year more than $5.6 billion in excess of the amount we are taking in. The Social Security tax takes more money from the people than the income tax, and it is expected to rise more than 300 during the remaining years to the end of the . and century-- Even then, income will not balance out-gwe are building up a liability running already into the trillions of dollars. The only answer to this dilemma is to extend the working period from 62 or 65 to age 70 or 72. Most people are able to work up to these latter ages, and if they are to be supported from there bn they must expect to be productive citizens for five to ten years longer than heretofore. Looking at another angle of our fiscal dilemma, in of the national 1950, employee compensation took 65.5 income. Today it takes 76.2. Conversely, profits have of the national income in 1950 to declined from 14.3 8.4 of the national income in 1975. Obviously, we are living far beyond our means. We can postpone the day of reckoning, but the. longer we postpone it, the greater the penalty will be. T he only hope for our employees to increase their incomes is to work longer hours, and step up the man- Continued on page 9 ! TOM ANDERSON POLICY NOTICE tf'P Cod1 Eoresl Service. We have a Continued on page 9 ! repeating thief. New York City owes? As Franklin D. Roosevelt said: Debt doesnt mean we owe it to ourselves. -- E.H., Wichita, Kans. A. Franklin Deficit Rusevelt believed in spending money (somebody elses) like there was no tomorrow. Tomorrow is now here. Q. Why doesnt Mayor Beame try to sell New York City back to the Indians? -- G.M., Pine Bluff, Ar. A. He has offered to sell for the original $24 plus interest compounded at but as any Injun knows that is far more than the present net worth of New York City. Q. How come New York City went broke before our federal government did? -- H.S., Alexandria, Va. A. Because the federal government can print paper money and New York City cant. Be patient. Q. I keep reading about tax reform. We need it, but more than that, we need Spending reform. Our major problem is not tax reduction or tax reform, but to cut Big Brother down. Right? -- G.M., Shawnee, Okla. 8, A. Right on! Q. What was Nuremburg guests in our land of the free and home of the brave. winnA. We like What effort is the Q. to cut government spending? -- M.L., Horse Cave, Ky. A. None. No programs have been cut. No payrolls reduced. On the contrary, they are constantly hunting for more ways to bankrupt us quicker. Recently, for instance, a bill was introduced to rip-o$30 million more dollars from d you suckers for The Harry S. Truman Congress making ff tax-ble- What difference does it make how much money anything, Khrushchev, Tito, and Brezhnev, are honored done at the War Crimes trial? Newburgh, N. Y. A. At Nuremburg, 29 years ago, the criminal leaders who won World War II, condemned 22 of the losing leaders to death or life imprisonment or long prison terms. (Rudolph Hess is still living, completely isolated in a prison). Worse criminals, such as -- M.B., THE REDS GAMES PLAN The Soviets have always liked to play games with us. They liked the game called detente but only when we played it according to their rules for all games. With them it must always be heads they win, tails we lose. JKK Memorial Scholarship The program Program. would create increased opportunities for young Americans to prepare and pursue careers in public services. In other words, $30 million to train more leeches. Q. Is there any estimate on how many abortions are committed in the U.S. each year? -- B.T., Springfield, Ohio A. Abortion has become Americas favorite form of murder. An estimated 1,200,000 unborn children are killed each year. Q. If we are going to have detente with Russia, why not also have it with Cuba? -- J.E., Albuquerque, NM. A. Thats the plan. First, the Russian Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, plans to give our Panama Canal to Panama. Next, give our oldest (72 years) and one of our most strategic military bases Guantanamo, in Cuba, to Cuba. After all since one of the main reasons for our naval base in Guantanamo was to protect our Panamk Canal, once the Canal is ceded to the enemy, what is more natural than that the base should go too? And if Portugal goes Communist, and we lose our naval and air bases in the Azores, what will the next domino be? Puerto Rico? Norfolk? -- American Way Features Readers comments and questions are welcome. Please write us at The American Way Features, P.O. Box 1098, Pigeon Forge, Tennessee 37863. If government could solve our problems for us, by now we wouldn't have any. Kissinger's done much to reduce the differences between our government and the Communist government of the Soviet Union, if you know what I mean. |