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Show .t (fKM s t ll V.'. 111 M i I Page 4 The Utah Independent January 23, 1980 V I Year I 1 l I I f ' F January 11, 1980 Twenty-Sev- en COMING CORPORATIVE SOCIALIST STATE The first weeks of the new decade seemed to forecast troublous times. More and more people were expressing exasperation and irritation over the government's weak-kne- ed action in the case of the fifty American prisoners of war still being held by a gang of terrorists posing as Iranian students in Tehran. People were wondering just how serious, to the United States, the Soviet in- -, vasion of Afghanistan might become. There was talk of reinstituting the draft, and whether women would be drafted. The right or wrong of Carter's embargo of 17 million tons of grain and 1 million tons of soybeans to Russia became a national issue. Boycott of the summer Olympics in Moscow was threatened. A foretaste of depression was felt when the media finally announced that people were no longer able to buy houses and that the building industry was in a deep and continued and increasing conslump. There was a panic of cern over a galloping inflation that was causing uemployment, bankruptcies of business houses, higher and higher prices followed by higher wages for those who still had jobs. In fact, there was so much concern over so many things, few people realized that the United States, once a Republic, and now a Democracy, had taken a sudden giant step into Corporate Socialism. U.S. a Corporate Socialistic State do with the Chrysler Corporation, tenth largest in the Nation. Some argument was heard about whether the federal government had the right to use taxpayers' money to bail out a private corporation that was going broke. But, the actual terms of the contract between the three parties - a public corporation called the United States of America, a private corporation called Chrysler, and a monopoly corporation called the United Auto Workers - was not explained by the controlled press. Demise of Chrysler Chrysler was always first and strongest in its opposition to government interference. There was a constant battle between Chrysler and the fourth branch of the federal government, the bureaucracy. So, Chrysler was the first to be enrolled in the Corporative State. It had been a free enterprise corporation, subject, to the rules of supply and demand, to the laws of competition and cusr tomer acceptance or rejection, free to make its own mistakes. Now, Chrysler has lost its freedom - to make, to buy, to sell, to borrow - because now, all of its operating plans are subject to scrutiny and control by a newly created federal review board. And Chrysler 's competition, Ford, General Motors and American Motors , are also affected because they will be competing against a company that has a labor union president on its board of directors, and which has the federal government. insuring its continuation regardless of what profit and loss statements may say. The Iranians occupied our Embassy once before, and we did nothing about it. Countless traitors have burned American home-grow- n our flags and we did nothing about fanatics have murdered three of our Ambassadors and we did nothing about it.-Foreig- n it. Here is how Corporate State Socialism, American style, operates: There is the coporation (Chrysler), there is the labor syndicate (UAW), and there is a federal board which makes all the important decisions. This board consists of five members: The Secretary of the Treasury (presently G. William Miller), the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board (now Paul Volcker), the Comptrol- ler General (Elmer Staats), the Secretary of Labor (now Ray Marshall), and the Secretary of Transportation (now Neil Goldschmidt). "The board has extremely broad powers to decide whether Chrysler 's plans are acceptable U.S.," writes Helen Kahn, Washington bureau chief of the trade publication Automotive News, of Dec. 31, 1979. "Chrysler, for example, must make the kind of vehicles acceptable to the national policy of reducing American dependence on foreign oil. . .The review board will oversee Chrysler's operating and financial plans and collect fees. Chrysler must open its books to complete auditing by the General Accounting Office. . .The review board will investigate any allegations of fraud, dishonesty, incompetence, misconduct or irregularity on the part of management." When capital, labor and government form an industrial partnership, and when government runs the business, that is called Corporative Socialism, which is the Fascist system of economy.. Because of intramural squabbling the Communists have projected the brainwash that Fascism, politically and economically, is diametrically opposed to Communism. Actually, they are socialist sisters, and the only essential difference lies in the fact that Communism is an interiet Communationalist movement, while Fascism, Nazism and Tito's nism are nationalist movements. A definition seems needed, and,. for the sake of brevity we quote from the rather liberal Columbia encyclopedia 925: page Fascism. Totalitarian philosophy of government that assigns . to the state control over every aspect of national life.... e anti-Sov- one-volu- me Continued on page 5 . ; The age of terrorism has arrived. Things will get worse. Will we do something about it? And wouldnt it have been nice if the imprisoned women and blacks in our Iranian embassy Were all had told their captors: Americans regardless of sex and color and we dont want to leave until aU can leave. The madman Khomeini insulted all women and blacks by releasing them while holding white males. During his long reign the Shah evidently did enrich himself. If leaders who do that are not welcome here, then the Roosevelts, Lady Bird Johnson, Nixon, and the Carters should be asked to leave. The Roosevelts and Carter families were ever on the make, using their White House connections for a quick buck. Lyndon Johnson borrowed the train fare to get to Washington, never had a . job and accumulated about $30 million. Nixon, penniless a few years ago, is now a multimillionaire, as is the new world orders Henry Kissinger. And the much:maligned Herbert Hoover, probably the last President who had real non-governm-ent integrity, never even accepted a salary. The American Way Features Create a Corporate State to-th- tM(f TELLING IT LIKE IT IS gold-buyi- ng, It had to ) The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand Boll Roposjid Number Two THE f , The Russians, in violation of agreements, have been diverting to military purposes trucks and engines produced at their Kama River plant. The Kama vehicles are reportedly being sent to other Warsaw Pact nations. About 30 percent of the Soviet Kama plant is supplied with American equipment and consists of more than $500 million in American technology. Designed., and ; engineered by American firms, it is operated by a computer brain built and installed Business International by Machines Corp. The Kama plant is the twice largest truck foundry in the world as large as the Ford Motor Co. foundry in Flat Rock, Michigan. . . . Once upon a time, this country admired - even its leaders, Profitable companies were greatly respected, and bankruptcy was, to say the least, a social money-makin- g. disgrace. No longer, if youre Lockheed, or New York City, or Chrysler, get Uncle Sucker thats us taxpayers to bail you out. But if -youre little , uk go under! The American Way Features |