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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand Page 2 The Utah Independent March 3, 1977 READERS OUTLOOK Independent :The TOM ANDERSON POLICY NOTICE Dedicated To The Constitution, Liberty, We like to receive Letters To Morality, and Truth Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty II Corinthians 3:17 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-spaced- ) written legibly on one side of an 814x11 sheet of paper. 2. We will publish these letters 3iliniifiimmiliiiMimnssssHiiiHmmmim KERSHNERS COMMENTARY By Dr. Howard E. Kershner Social Security and Decapitalization As we move into 1977, people who rightly read the signs of what is ahead for our wonderful country are saddened by the prospect. A country progresses in proportion to its moral standards and to the amount of capital it accumulates. The moral degeneracy that exists in our country is obvious, but it is not so well known that we are no longer saving sufficient capital to continue leading the industrial world. A year ago the Economist declared that America is set for industrial senility unless its industrial investment goes up from a British rate of just over 10 percent of GNP to a Franco-Germa- n rate of about 15 percent. U.S. The ranks sixth in economic growth, ahead only of Britain, and had the lowest investment rate of the seven industrial nations. Last year we saved only 6.4 percent of our disposable personal income. Industry cannot be financed with savings that low. It takes about $35,000 of invested capital to supply one good job. If a million people are seeking jobs, a capital investment of $35 billion is needed. If 10 million people are seeking jobs, a capital investment of $350 billion is needed. Our savings are nowhere near that figure. Social Security drains off about $85 billion a year and converts this vast sum into consumption goods rather than into further accumulation of capital. If people were allowed to invest their savings in stocks, bonds, real estate, savings banks, savings and loan associations, annuities and life insurance, over a period of a lifetime the vast sums thus created would supply the capital necessary to carry our country forward. Upon reaching old age, the people would then be able to retire on the income from the money they had saved. At their death, the capital would go on supplying jobs and increase the wealth of the country'. But under Social Security, these vast sums are not invested but are paid out to beneficiaries as fast as the government collects them. Social Security, therefore, becomes a process of decapitalizing the country of converting capital goods, which produce more wealth, into consumption goods which quickly disappear. Meanwhile, the proportion of our GNP spent in research and development declined from a peak of 3 percent in 1963 to 2.3 percent in 1974. During these same years West Germany exceeded the United States in the proportion of GNP devoted to science and engineering. We are not carrying on the research necessary to maintain our preeminence and we are not accumulating the capital to maintain our industrial leadership. We are passing from a position of leadership to one of inferiority. The process is slow but one cannot go in the same direction, no matter how slowly, without eventually reaching the destination. It seems we have passed the peak of our psychological drive and that our will to work, to do, to achieve and to surpass is declining, even more rapidly than our technology. Alexander Solzhenitsyn has said, two or three more decades of peaceful coexistence,1 as glorious as the last, and the very concept of the West will vanish from the face of the earth. so-call- ed Economics Department NORTHWOOD INSTITUTE Forcibly taking from the haves to give to the is unchristian, unAmerican, and unwarranted. have-no- ts -- Thomas J. Anderson 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 thanks. THE EDITOR Sorry we ccnnot print your squests for funds. SURFACE LAND MANAGEMENT Mr. Curt Berklund, Director Bureau of Land Management C Street and 18th NW Washington, D.C. 20240 Dear Mr. Berklund: Re: 43 CFR Part 3800, Surface Management of Public Land Under U.S. Mining Laws Proposed Procedures to Minimize Adverse Enfironmental Impacts We believe interference with individual prospectors and with the mining industry in general is a It is unfortunate that problem. many government people still confuse environmental protection with the public interest. These regulations as presently written will eliminate the small miner and prospector the people who have made most of the major ore discoveries. Putting the small miner out of business will create a chain reaction and create a serious depression in this area. It will destroy our most important natural resource man, by creating unemployment. These regulations will ultimately force us to rely on a foreign mineral supply. Therefore, we, the undersigned citizens of the United States, hereby request that the proposed regulations be modified as follows: 1. The proposed rules are designed so that the Secretary is required to take any action necessary to prevent unnecessary or undue degradation of the public lands. This is a very broad statement and there should be specific guidelines set forth. 2. What is the meaning of significant surface disturbance"? This is strictly a matter of opinion and the authorized officers should not be empowered to make such decisions without specific guidelines being set forth. 3. Under 3809.0-7- : Homes have been built on patented property from which the United States has reserved the mineral To avoid possible rights. harassment of homeowners the following should be deleted: These regulations also apply to lands where the surface has been patented and the locatable mineral rights have been reserved by the Continued on page 10 a 17, On January program called Nightmare The Brady to present a Bunch horrible nightmare about of the Nazi persecution Polish Jews. The atrocities The were program was sponsored by pre-empt- ed blood-curdlin- g. Co. Life (Campbells Soup), and R.C.A. What the Nazis did was Jews the to Campbell must They unforgivable.have killed almost a fiftieth as Jews as many killed have Communists - people. Have you ever seen a T.V. commentary about the mass extermination of just plain people by the comratsl The Communists have murdered untold millions of Christians and still have millions enslaved. The crime, supreme news according to the media, is not killing people indiscriminately, but killing Jews, or blacks. May I suggest that you write Soup Campbells Company (Camden, New Jersey 08101) and R.C.A. of (Radio Corporation America, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, New York 10020) and tell them youTl consider purchasing their products again when and if they run a commentary on history's most murderous criminal tyranny, Communism. And that'll be the day! SHOOT TO KILL Three young criminals wearing ski masks and hooded jackets to conceal their identities, told the New York Select Committee on Crime that robbing old folks is one of the safest and easiest ways to get money. If youre 15 and under you wont go to jail, and most of the time the old people are too scared to testify, one of our tomorrows citizens thousand years supply of coal under the ground. And many years, supply of oil and gas. If allowed to do so, our power companies could, within few years, be all the atomic producing ever need. No, energy wed a we dont have an energy shortage. Rather, we have a surplus of ecology nuts, anti-American- leftist s, and legislators, bungling bureaucrats. The energy shortage was not caused by the free enterprise system. Like virtually all of our problems, it was caused by so-call- ed government. UNDER-LEVE- L GRADUATES High school graduates in Tennesee are at least two behind national years educational levels, says the Tennessee Educational Commissioner. We are at the same level today we were twentyyears ago he says. I dont believe it. I dont think we are near that high. Twenty years ago high schools students knew the multiplication could read and table, speak English. METHODS Dear Mr. Anderson, I received your book Silence Is Not Golden It's Yellow and have enjoyed it very much. I hope someday you will write a column on the Methods used by the opposition to demoralize and enslave us. As a member of the Birch Society I constantly hear friends say, with I Yes agree everything the Birch Society stands for, but I dont like - your methods. Sincerely, Fred Naisbitt , Ogden, Utah stated. For forty years Ive heard that. Even from kinfolks and friends. When they tell I dont approve of me: I reply: your methods, There is an answer. The old should be people allowed to carry pistols. And when assaulted, they should shoot to kill. Those youths dont in fact, deserve to go to jail. What are your methods? You dont have any. If you can do it better, come on. No, they dont come on. They dont have the guts. And their criticism is, for the most part, a guilt AN ENERGY SHORTAGE? complex. Nobody ever deserved frostbite more than Ralph Nader. There is no real Readers' comments and are welcome. questions The Please write us at American Way Features , P.O. Box 990, Pigeon Forge, Tennessee 37863. energy shortage in this nation and there never has been. We have more than a -- American Way In Chicago, police arrested Angela Winslow Features after a burglar broke into her apartment, raped a friend who was visiting, and threw the friend out the window (15th floor) before Ms. Winslow chased him off with a shot that (unfortunately) missed. Ms. Winslow is out on $1,000 bail for failing to have a gun permit and discharging it within the city limits. |