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Show The Paper That Dares To Take Page 2 The Utah Independent May 26, 1977 mil; J A Stand READERS OUTLOOK Independent TOM ANDERSON POLICY NOTICE Dedicated To We like to receive Letters To The Morality, and Truth Constitution, Liberty, The Editor. Frequently, however, these letters arc much too long for us to use. For this reason, we are adopting the following policy: Letters To The Editor or should be typed (double-spacewritten legibly on one side of an 8I;.I 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 thanks. THE EDITOR OAT STAMPS upset: The leeches are taking over. The government is not only living beyond its income, it's living beyond yours and mine. 1. Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty d) Corinthians 3.7 7 1 SlIItVilklllHhihiiiiiailiiiiiiiliaiiltiiMlllliaiaaaMilikjC We Must Reverse the Trend Part II Part One of this series underlines a principle which have been stating and restating for years: ' When a people empower their government to take money from some and give it to others, the process will not stop until the last bone of the last taxpayer is picked bare. We see this happening before our eyes . . . taxes, indebtedness, and interest charges mounting and higher. Total debt in our country, direct and indirect, and including contingent liabilities, is estimated at about $5 trillion. The national debt itself has risen to over $700 billion. The annual cost of operating our government has risen from $500 million a year, as it was in my early memory, to more than $400 billion a year 800 times as great as it was in my youth. Now let us continue the listing of events that have led to the decline of the West, particularly as they have been manifested in our country . . . 6. The enormous expansion of credit and the desire to have more than we are producing is one of the great 'The credit economy tragedies of the last not only increases the amount paid out in interest, but adds an enormous volume of paperwork and causes an increase in living expenses of possibly as high as 20 percent. The use of credit cards adds about 1 percent to the cost of living, and the use of installment purchaHs adds about 20 percent. Bv returning'7 to a cash economy for consumer iroods. insofar as possible, we would save in three ways. While we were saving to make a desirable purchase, we would get interest on our money. We would then purchase for cash at the lowest possible price. Third, we would save the cost of installment buying, amounting usually to about 18 to 20 percent. Savings in interest charges alone billion a year. In the could well run from $150-$20- 0 long run, we could enjoy about 20 percent more consumer goods than we now have with the credit noose I self-governi- ng ever-high- er Sorry we cannot print your requests for funds. VALUABLE RESOURCE!!! Dear Editor: The nation's supply of swine flu vaccine is a VALUABLE RESOURCE and it may be stockpiled for as long as 10 years." said the National Center for Disease Control (CDC) this week. A valuable resource? For what? Genocide? Called the tragedy of the past year (1976) by HEW Secretary Joseph Califano when the government program left untold numbers dead and more untold numbers paralyzed, and now Dr. J. Donald Millar. Director ofCDC's Bureau of State Services, is proposing to save the vaccine and use it again in case of another half-centur- v. 4 4 around our necks. The abuse of credit swine flu scare. As 1 recall the figure released claimed the federal vaccine a good program left 42 dead many Americans dont believe the people were told the true number. You recall only one soldier at Fort Dix was ever claimed to have died of the sw ine flu disease itself. And they fired Dr. J. Anthony Morris from CDC for publicly warning against the use of the vaccine. This country has become one vast insane asylum with its very worst inmates running it. Billie G. Kuhrkc --- but is undoubtedly one of the reasons that the solvency and independence of our country are swinging in the balance. (This does not apply to production goods, used in creating more wealth farms, machinery, factories, trucks and anything, in fact, that creates more wealth than the interest charges on the money used to buy it.) 7. The belief that shirkers who will not work, deadbeats and crooks, who have found ways of living from the sweat of other people's brows, are entitled to live at the expense of the taxpayer is another important reason for the decline of America. When men and women find Continued on page 9 The mi jfl Independent Salt Lake City, Utah 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. Second Class Postage Snd ANOTHER TERMINAL ISLAND Paid at Salt Lake City Publication .No. X642XII change ol address forms and correspondence Dear Editor: Would you please send my husband, whose address is listed below-your paper for the designated length of time. Dr. Al'flerbach started the to 57 East Oakland Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 , Utah's Largest and Fastest- - Growing Subscription Weekly 1 Contiiiiii'd on page 4 NO JOB SHORTAGE Is there a job shortage? No, and there hasnt been. Look in the classified pages of any newspaper. The hardest job an owner of a business has today is to find people who want to give an honest days work for an honest days pay. As Oscar Wilde said: Work is the curse of the drinking classes. The welfare rolls grow because it is more profitable for millions of our people to stay on welfare th. work. There are millions of welfarers third-generatio- THE as well parents, never have themselves, found a suitable job. There is no suitable job for a bum. Our government has made bums out of millions of our people. Remember when welfare used to be called chanty? And then, TO WELFARE relief? Now its a right. Welfarers now strike, picket and riot, demanding that There are now in the neighborhood of 80 million Americans getting regular government checks, either for working or not w'orking. (And many who have jobs are not working.) At the growth Brother confiscate more of our money to give to them. The American Way of Life is becoming a welfare state of life. Big of The and welfare, government and regular checks for not working, by the year 1990 virtually everybody will get a regular government check - which is like a hungry snake swallowing its taii, deeper, deeper, deeper until there is no tail - and no snake. THE BALANCE Rainier National Park, Washington, a ranger cautions visitors aginst feeding the animals. The ranger explains that the deer grow accustomed to visitors handouts and lose the ability to fend for themselves. Bears, he says, come to believe that free food is their due - and become grouchy and violent if don't get it. they and squirrels Chipmunks where the congregate handouts are supplied and thus upset ihe balance of The country halatkc is of our likewise being do-goode- rs that confide soothingly (so manpower retraining that there will he no Americans left to do an unskilled job) will cost a mere S3 billion a year. Rent subsidies will lake increasing billions to keep slum rats disadfrom so being vantaged. And there arc countless more programs, limited only by the fertile minds of our politicians, to steal from those who have to buy those who have nature. he Constitution nowhere grants the federal government the authority to take from the workers and shirkers. the to give Socialists are agitating for a complete nationalization of welfare. Rome did that, too - shortly before it fell. No nation, now' or ever, was rich enough to feed all its idle people. When Rome began its welfare state, the end of Rome was near. BUYING THE HAVE-NOT- S Mount In grandparents, as ANSWER present n whose money.' I J iat good Presidents, Republican Abraham Lincoln, liked to tell this welfare story: used to know an old codger. Abe said, whose cabin burned down to the ground. The folks in those paits felt sorry because he'd all his lost earthly possessions. So they began bringing him presents to set him back on his feet. Well they made such a good job of it that when they were through he was far better off than he ever had been before. One day the old man was sitting on the stoop of the new cabin his neighbors had built for him and along came a friend from down the road with a bag of oats on his shoulder. I want you to have these here oats, pardner, said the kind neighbor, setting the bag down on the front step. I aint takin no oats, said the old hoy. I aint but takin nothin' Bern id ji. MN 56601 I'll be surprised if some P.S. enterprisingjudge doesn't yet order it added to Brainerd's city water supply. ..in very small doses, of course! IM.S. Bra i nerd has just lost its battle of many years and has been ordered by the Supreme Court to fluoridate its city water supply. the of One -- not.. (Continued on Page 5) |