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Show J ; The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand answers are No, the as not complex as the Republicans and Democrats would have us believe. But some of the answers would probably counted the columns of help wanted ads in the newspaper. There were 35 columns. Its the same over most of the country. Most people evidently believe the Big Lie that 7 are there million we Before unemployed. debate that figure lets define the terms. What does mean? It unemployed used to mean the head of a willing to give it an . r, r ecently-gradu-ated-from-colle- bright ambitious, young person in business today than ever before because there is less competition. Many of his contemporaries are not hard-workin- g jobs come out Some eVen. people evidently think there are no answers to our economic problems. Others think government can solve our problems. ge son of a millionaire, a boy who majored in sociology and sex and who thinks some businessman should hire him as a beginning $10,000 executive. It means the millions of people wholl never take an honest job as long as they can get as much, and maybe more not working, than they are capable of earning. ' The hardest job in business today is finding people who want to give an honest days work for an honest days pay. There is more opportunity for a President-ele- ct says hell bring about full employment. And he might. But not while we have a free country. The only place where they have permanent, guaranteed full employment is in a dictatorship. Theres no unemployment in Russia they shoot enough people to make the people and the not find any honest labor. Today, it means anybody who claims, under some conditions, that he would work. It means the wife makes husband wnose $30,000 a year, but she hates housework and has been unable to find the she secretarial position she should get, thinks making $12,000. It means the ut bum isnt. the household,who could bread-winne- all-o- effort. Twenty million people are getting food stamps. But more than twenty-millio- n families are unable to hire household help. Millions of now Americans jobless think menial labor is beneath them but being a The - Government is our problem. We have .far too much government at all levels. We are now working 5 months out of the year, or 40 of our time, to support our government. Thats about 5 times too much. To cure any disease, its helpful to know the cause. The cause of our economic problems is mostly due to immorality. For 29 out of the last 34 years, and 14 out of the last 16 years, our has federal government spent more than it took in. We were unwilling to pay our own bills. We ate our grandchildrens seed corn. Thats dishonest. And yet both major Presidential to candidates promised reduce, not spending, but taxes. And the one who increase to promised elected. spending got may hire, fire or promote anybody for any reason: because of his or her race, produce withdrawal symptoms in the patient. But like the chronic alcoholic, we have the choice of taking the cure, or dying. on THE CURE Heres the cure: 1 . A balanced budget, no deficit financing except in time of declared war. 2. Again tying our money to gold andor other precious metal. Kill 3. the Federal Reserve system and return the control of the money to the Congress. 4. Gradual, systematic reduction of federal debt. 5. Kill the progressive income tax and substitute pay forless-and-le- . the responsibilities of state and local governments. 8. Get government off the back of business and let the free enterprise system once again work. 9. Kill the minimum wage. 10. Make it illegal for public employees to belong to a labor union. 1 1 . go - more-and-mo- re income tax of the same percentage (not to exceed 10) on all, rich and poor, with no exemptions. 6. Sell to the highest bidders the more than 3,000 businesses owned by the federal government, none of which is authorized by the Use Constitution. the resulting several hundred billions of dollars to reduce the national debt. The corporations would in turn tax become producers instead of tax eaters. 7. Get the federal government completely out of education and welfare, them Once a man holds a is he office, public absolutely no good for honest work. Will Rogers voluntary, - therefore making a - basis. 14. Since inflation is caused by too much money chasing too few goods, stop increasing the money supply and stop the pay-as-you-- more There are two kinds of fools. One says, This is old, therefore it is good. The other says, This is new, therefore it is better. William Ralph Inge creed, color, sex, or the way they part their hair; or because they belong to a labor union, or because they do not belong. 12. Stop foreign aid. 13. Put Sobial Security Pass a constitutional amendment to the effect that any private employer and-fringe- s- ss work syndrome. 15. No pensions for any government employees. 16. An end to Medicare and medicaid. 17. Phased, complete withdrawal federal of government control of and aid to agriculture. 1 8. No federal funding of politicians, 12-1- 4 wSafety First Mortgages & Real . housing, inevitable UTAH RESIDENTS INVESTMENT CORPORATION .1321 So. Slate : Suite 201 S.LC..UL84115 Call Collect 486-074- PROFITABLE ADVERTISING is our business. You ought to make it yours. O JOHN T. WILLIAMS Advertising Manager THE UTAH INDEPENDENT O I The Name 57 East Oakland Avenue Salt Lake City, Utah 841 15 Phone ODlFCll Utah's Largest and Fastest-Growin- (801)466-191- 3 Independent Subscription Weekly g UTAH INDEPENDENT 1 (First) (Left) (Middle) Address (Number And Street) ...if nv people will humble themselves... ' L: 8 O bankruptcy, Readers comments and welcome. are questions Please write us at "The American Way Features, P.O. Box 990, Pigeon Forge, Tennessee 37863. I ONLY UTAH & WESTERN revolution, and dictatorship, but would once again make this land the most blessed of all lands, the envy of the world, the land with the highest standard of living in the history of the world, and the land with the highest degree of individual freedom ever attained in the annals of man. -- American Way Features j Estate Contracts fully recoursed businesses, arts, schools. 19. One term limitation for all elected federal officials (six years for President, six years for Senators, four years for Congressmen, nine years for Supreme Court judges, and less for lower-cou- rt judges). 20. Subsidize Ralph Nader to move to Russia. See? Its really quite simple. The above moral not only steps would an . otherwise prevent THe ; .s' f J November 25, 1976 The Utah Independent Page 5 TOM ANDERSON When in Washington, D.C. the other day, I i (City) (Stal (ZiP Co |