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Show Page The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand The Utah Independent March 17, 1977 2 mianim mu iiiimmiiiiiMMnaMffaa miiiii Independent READERS OUTLOOK 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 d) Corinthians 3:17 SifinTVTirmmfeii'MiisaiiiiMaisasfisieiiisimaasMiMsC KERSHNERS COMMENTARY By Dr. Howard E. Kershner Pressure to Expand HEW Last summer it was my privilege to address a regional public hearing set up by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare one of five held around the country. A great many private citizens spoke at this conference of ways that HEW could be more useful. A book was later printed telling about the proceedings and an official summary was sent out. One sentence in the letter declares that citizen testimony at the hearings focused primarily on questions of expanding the scope and availability of home services . . . strong sentiment was voiced health services. One citizen for the concept of remarked: in-ho- developed enough for that individual to get the services he requires. Several witnesses said homemaker and other social services should be included in the coverage. Others called for more systematic planning .of health services at both the state and local levels. . . . a According to the letter, some advocated strengthened federal role in order to assure quality care and protect consumers from fraud and abuse. As will be seen from such comments, the general assumption was that more and more should be expended by HEW for more and more services. HEW is already costing the American people about $118 billion a year. If an allotment were made to implement the suggestions for extending the services, no one can tell what the increased cost would be. Strengthening the federal role in order to assure quality care can only mean further vast expenditures. And how anyone can believe this would protect consumers from fraud and abuse is difficult to understand. One might truthfully say that fraud and abuse in government operations are in proportion to the volume of expenditure. No man or group of men, however and to whatever extent they may be assisted by computers and other mechanical devices, can administer the expenditure of $400 to $500 billion a year without waste, loss, abuse and fraud. HEW teaches people to believe it is not necessary for them to supply their own needs and wants, but that much of it can be gained from the sweat of other peoples in-ho- me high-minde- d, brows. On the other hand, when constructive workers learn the proportion of their earnings that are being paid to others, their efforts decline. HEW, therefore, and all similar organizations, reduce production at both ends of the spectrum. The receivers do not see the necessity of hard constructive work and the providers the productive portion of the population become discouraged because they are robbed of so large a proportion of the fruits of their labor. mor editorial needs. News items Must Be Fully Documented. We want to print ONLY THE TRUTH! thanks. SIDE EFFECTS OF SWINE FLU Dear Editor: 50 now the measles are runNot that its ning rampant! unexpected, for heart attacks, paralysis and death arc not the only side effects of the Swine Flu Fiasco. One hasnt noticed the media calling attention to the relationship, but there is one. nevertheless. The Lesser Lights of the networks probably are not yet aware of it but you can bet your bottom dollar that the Big Bugs are! According to the General Accounting Office, and as reported by the authorititive national news weekly. The Review of the Sews in its January 26, 1977 issue, the scheme resulted in the number of cases of even so common an affliction as measles leaping 64 percent over the preceding year. Said a spokesman for the U.S. Center for Disease Control: All the states had to curtail their routine immunizations because of the swine flu program. And even with the program now in abeyance its going to take a while to catch up. Furthermore, according to the GAO, since so many venereal disease investigators were transferred to the swine flu efforts program, the anti-V.floundered. Accordingly, said the GAO. the U.S. Government may have to spend twice as much money over the next two vears to fight D. V.D. Now the politicians are pointing fingers at the media, and vice versa, trying to avoid the blame for this hastily instituted medical fiasco. No telling when the bottom of this can of worms will be reached. 51 nee rely, PROTECTING THE CRIMINAL The Utah Independent Is published by the Utah Independent each Tuesday at 57 East Oakland Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115. Yearly subscription rate is $10.00 by surface mail in the United States, $15.00 foreign. Paid at Salt Lake City to 57 East Oakland Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 Dear Editor: With great interest I read Paul C. .arson's article (S.L. Tribune 2122117) in regard to our Senator Karl N. Snow's Senate Bill 84, which would place the control of licensing and ethical issues for lawyers into the hands of the State Department Utahs Largest and Fastest- - Growing Subscription Weekly of Business Regulations. This change is badly needed inasmuch as experience has Continued on page 10 . social every Virtually welfare program now being done by our government bureaucracies could be done far better and cheaper at the a private level. You can buy much better education for your children, at any level, than what it is costing the American taxpayer (thatls you) to maintain your child in the present public school. (And, incidentally, should unmarried or childless people be forced to pay for the education, even the mis-educati- on , of other peoples children? is Forced payment forced as wrong, just attendance is wrong. So who would educate the children, particularly those of parents who cant afford private schools? Why not start with the churches? Most of the thousands of churches in this nation are standing empty and unused six days a week. (And many are not being used very well on the seventh day). WTiat a The waste. dreadful over churches ought to take a large share of education. And, for those opposed to all churches and to God theres always Himself, Madeline OHair. Perhaps shed like to start a militant (not atheist military) school. Thus wed have instead of competition blatant brainwork. Few things since sex have been more over-rate- d than the school public system. Evidently the rogues and who hypocrites largely the occupy Congress have found this out. In the House, seemingly only two have Congressmen their children in D.C.s public which are schools, overwhelmingly black, and evil, dangerous, counterproductive. Those Congressmen are Ron Dellums California, and John Jenrette of South Carolina, whose excuse is unknown to this writer. Now lets go to the other end of this mortal coils from spectrum the children to the aged. Our socialist is government extreme-lefti- st of - WE OWE spending fast-increasi- ng sums to take care of our the (As family aged. continues to be and sabotaged, more and more people are willing to turn their aged out on the public). down-grade- d For instance, in the State of New York it costs $833 a month (or about $10,000 a year) to provide a Medicaid bed. Suppose just half of that amount went to the family (perhaps in tax credits) to provide its own care. The family could perhaps build an extra room on the house (if needed) or rent a nearby apartment, could hire extensive health and social services. Present policies encourage families to put their aged in and institutions. The message is the same: as our Founding Fathers in their divinely-inspire- d - wisdom knew practically everything can be done better by the private sector than by government. ONE TERM FOR ALL more Even important than requiring holders of political office to pass tests, which many of them couldnt possibly manage -like sanity, Wasserman and - would be limiting all elected officials to one term: six years for Presidents and Senators, four years for Congressmen. Its difficult to steal the country blind in four years. The consuming interest of most Congressmen is to stay there; in most cases, the interest of the consuming consumer should be to see that he doesnt. In every Congressional tests saliva election, most incumbent Senators and Representaare tives How could we possibly save the country that way? The people who sunk us cant save us. American Way Features Readers comments and questions are welcome. Please write us at " The American Way Features ", P.0 Box 990, Pigeon Forge, Tennessee 37863. OUR FELLOW BLACKS AND WHITES Of Africas 49 nations, 43 are run by one-party or dictatorships governments, many of which are military juntas, many ruled. Majority rule, as we think of it, only exists in 6 of these nations. one-ma- Dorothy Walden Desert Hot Springs, CA 92240 Independent Sand change of addreai forms and correspondent Many THE EDITOR Sorry we cannot print your ? quests for funds. Salt Lake City, Utah Second Class Postage to our regular policies and current will be subject me Any person can be appropriately cared for through mechanism as long as the supthe home health-car- e port system whether it be family or agency is ih' 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 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 black-governe- d n Marxist-Communi- Which may help st to explain why over 500,000 blacks each year seek to immigrate into South Africa, proving that some things are even more oppressive than apartheid. liberation doesnt bring racial liberation, but imposes human suppression, in Africa as it does everywhere else in the world. Few Africans are better off, most are far worse off, since the flags of European colonialism began coming down because independence has been short lived as the Hags of the factions have been raised. Before Rhodesia and South Africa go the way of Vietnam and Cambodia, we should know the unreported, facts and not get carried away by the biased news that is being fed to us. We owe as much to our fellow blacks and whites in Africa. Marxist-Communi- Marxist-Communi- st st |