OCR Text |
Show The Paper That Dares To Take Page 2 The Utah Independent July 8, 1976 The anraia READERS OUTLOOK Independent The Constitution, Liberty, Morality, and Truth Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty II Corinthians 3:17 3imi'ffITimiftUrtBSaaBBBBBBSBBtBBSSSSMSSSSBBiSasai KERSHNERS COMMENTARY By Dr. Howard E. Kershner How To Keep Social Security Solvent We all know that the Social Security scheme is bankrupt. It is taking in about $65 billion a year and paying out about $72 billion. The trust fund will be exhausted in another year or two. Meanwhile, payments to Social Security beneficiaries will rise again this coming summer. The maximum Social Security tax is now around $1800 per person, and will have to keep on rising to something like $6,000 or $7,000 a year by the end of the century in order to make income cover outgo. A Social Security tax of that size is obviously impossible without further extensive inflation. But the latter would call loudly, and probably irresistibly, for increased benefits. This, in turn, would mean a further tax increase. Inflation can never be stopped if we go on doing the things that cause it. Deficit spending is the main cause, and raising pensions and benefits of all kinds is the principal cause of deficit spending. Furthermore, the Social Security tax siphons off $65 billion or more a year that otherwise could be invested to produce income for retired citizens. This transfer of wealth from productive uses to immediate consumption is already decapitalizing our country. If continued, this will mean lower production and a declining standard of living. We hear very little about how to avoid this calamity. The following simple proposal would solve the problem and would not be too uncomfortable for the American people. Under the Social Security scheme, most people retire at age 62 to 65. By working on to age 70 or 72 (if health permits), each person would be paying into the scheme something like ten percent more than under the present practice. At the same time, these extra years (five to eight), would shorten the time that the beneficiary would be receiving retirement pay. This would increase the annual take from the Social Security tax to about $72 billion, and would reduce the payout (after Continued on page 11 maca The Utah's Largest and 57 Fastest-Growin- g Oakland Avenue older than 2 months 12 for l l SI. 00 Subscriptions: USA $10.00 per year Foreign $15.00 per year The Name Address 1 d) think3. Sorry we cannot print your inquests for funds. Dear Editor: Columnist Paul Scott has warned that the creation of a national program of and Family Services Act of 1975, is day-car- e massive program to help working mothers, financed by the designed federal government -- meaning the taxpayers. Opponents of this ol They contend that the move is a giant step toward having the federal government set the values for and control of the education of the nation's children. The most active of the opposition groups, the Emergency Committee for Children, sees the program as a definite threat to parents' control over the education of their children. According memorandum to. committee: The legislation will engineer the total physical and of the needs behavioral nations youth from birth emotional, each 12 for $2.75 through graduation, 25 for $5.00 100 for $17.50 UTAH INDEPENDENT I l completely bypassing local control and that of the parents." The bill assumes, first, that ordinary parents are incapable of supplying the daily educational, health and social needs of their nutritional, children, and second, that the federal government can perform these functions better than the family. The forerunner to the C'hild and Family Services Act was a report issued by the Joint Commission on Mental Health of Children, presented to Congress in 1969, which states: and four times combined The size Switzerland. of the policy of the Republic of South Africa is to encourage and help the Bantu to develop their territories into highly prod uctive, self-governi- national ng The Bantu homelands. homelands are times larger than Belgium. But whereas these homelands support only 5 million Bantu, 9 million Belgians make their way in Belgium. 5 Vi without emancipation Political now would independence create void another merely chaos. which the Communists would rush in to fill, as in central Africa and throughout the world. The official policy since 1948 in South Africa has been the separate south from equatorial unhappy Commonwealth status under Britain and became a sovereign independent state. It is - - Wales They first made contact with the blacks, or Bantu, around 1730. The Bantu tribes were migrating established its own living area. Great Britain annexed the Cape in 1795. In 1961 South Africa abandoned her of this England and development (apartheid) of the whites and Bantu, within the framework of a Commonwealth system. The Bantu are being educated and trained for this. No other race white, Indian or colored (many racial mixtures) - may acquire land in the Bantu areas. It is the conviction of the whiles that the mixing of two such alien elements as white and black inevitably leads to Africa. Each race a territories will be larger than eventual country. day-car- e. purchased, the Bantu in the fifteenth century in the good hope of finding a sea route to the Cape through uninhabited hill claim there is a lot more to it than child-contr- extra land made available is South Africas policy toward the Bantu is Bushmen lived in trees, on wild roots, berries and game. Their existence was at the Stone Age level. The Hottentots were a pastoral people. Western civilization came to South Africa with the Dutch, who settled at the Cape in 1652 After settling the Cape, the white pioneers moved north and northwestward the Child educational, mental, 50 for $9.00 South Africa was settlement. When all the discovered by Portuguese explorers who rounded the Hottentots, both black. The little-publiciz- ed Utah 84115 25C understood and most lied about and most explosive areas of the world is the African continent, second largest continent in the world, inhabited by 250 million of nine different races and speaking over 800 languages and dialects. Current developments in South Africa could mean a conflagration in which the United Nations would be on one side (with us furnishing most of the money and the corpses) and the majority of the American people being, at heart, on the other side. the Bushmen and the starting at the age of three for every youngster in the country, is being quietly pushed in Congress. This legislation, a the least East. There were in South Africa then only small groups of nomadic people early childhood education, Subscription Weekly , One of THE EDITOR Independent Salt Lake Citv l Assorted copies I 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-spacewritten legibly on one side of an 8x11 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 needs. News items Must Be Fully Documented. We want to print ONLY THE TRUTH! Many disguised as Stand TOM ANDERSON POLICY NOTICE Dedicated To A a republic or parliamentary democracy. It is one of 33 independent states and 23 republics (including the island of Madagascar) in Africa. The Bantu live mostly in 4he northern and eastern parts of South Africa in some of the very best agricultural regions. These are their original homelands, and they own and occupy 22.7 million acres, guaranteed by the Native Lands Act of 1913. In 1936 the Native Trust and Land Act earmarked another 15.3 million acres for Bantu Lawn Bowls, whose origins can be traced to Egypt, has been played in England since the 1 100s. ' It reached the Colonies about 1690 and flourished until the Revolutionary War. Revived a hundred years later, it is today a popular recreation. - social results, racial miscegenation, moral deterioration of both races, racial clashes, and various other forms of social evil. Africa box Pandoras opened by our own is a misguided idealists and our The Liberals. guided United Slates was mainly responsible for the retreat of the West from Africa and Asia and the creation of a conglomeration of nations which take from us with one hand and throw spears at us with the other. South Africa and Rhodesia, .so-call- ed however, are stable, peaceful, prosperous, Christian governments. American Way Features Readers' comments and questions are welcome. The Please write us at A m erica n Way Features , P.O. Box 1 0 98, Pigeon Purge, Tennessee 37S63. Although the village blacksmith shop owes its origin primarily to the need for horseshoeing, the skillful smith forged a large variety of farm and household tools and utensils. Weaponry used in the Revolution frequently came from the forges of local blacksmiths. |