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Show ? I t . The UTAH INDEPENDENT Page 2 The QD TrA ClI . - i.i . .r f .) November 17, 1972 Independent Dedicated To The Constitution, Liberty, Morality, and Truth i Free men can vote themselves into slavery, but slaves cannot vote themselves free." J. Reese Hunter Editors Outlook Congratulations Ernest Wright The Utah Independent wishes to extend its congratulations and support for the recent action by Utahs Executive Director for Corrections, Ernest Wright. In denying the Utah Migrant Councils request to have Joan Baez appear at the Utah State Prison he may have saved thousands of dollars in tax money from the resultant destruction had Miss Baezs appearance set off a riot. Even more important, Mr. Wright may have averted the loss of life which sometimes occurs when tensions are agitated by a professional. It makes one wonder what the Utah Migrant Council had in mind when they tried to arrange Miss Baezs appearance at the prison. Surely they know of her history and of the causes she serves. In nearly every case where prison riots have occurred in recent history the revolutionary agitator must first enter the picture as the catalyst to get things going. A man in prison has enough trouble trying to get his life straigntened out without being made the object of professional agitators who view him as cannon fodder for their revolution. Joan Baez has chosen to include herself among the revolutionary pied pipers of today who use their musical talents to gain the attention of the unsuspecting in order to lead them carefully to destruction. It is too bad that Miss Baez has chosen to use her talent for destructive purposes rather than for helping uplift the human race. She could if she would but she wont. Her course has been set. That doesnt mean that other people must act stupidly just to accommodate her and her supporters. Ernest Wright chose to use good sense in this matter and did not allow himself to be pressured against his own sound judgment. For that, Mr. Wright, we salute you. Hes A Nudie But No Cutie Our eyes nearly popped when someone showed us the nude centerfold of the latest Cosmopolitan magazine. At first w'e thought we were looking at a photograph of the great white whale, Moby Dick, with glasses. On closer scrutiny, that big hunk of hairy blubber, wearing nothing but a presidential advisors smile, had the face of Henry Kissinger. Since this magazine comes from the Harvard Lampooners we wonder if someone is putting us on. Independent The Utah is by the Utah Independent each Friday at 1399 South 7th East, Suite 9, Salt Lake City, Utah 84105. Yearly subscription rate is $5.00 per year by surface mail in the United States. Independent published Send change of address forms and correspondence to 2459 Major Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 Utah's Largest and Fastest-Growin- g Subscription Weekly Pop! However, there may be a cryptic message in all of this. The picture shows Kissinger in the nude lying on a Panda bearskin rug. We wonder if someone is trying to tell us something. Was this picture taken before or after Kissingers Asian negotiations at which time he played Russian roulette with the Red Chinese and North Vietnamese? Are we being told that the U.S. was skinned in the deal and all we have to show for it is a bare Henry on a Panda bear? If that is the message, it is coming through loud and clear. Readers ytflook Down Upside Means Flag Distress SOCIAL SECURITY THEFT The Tribune Q. Is there any money actually in the so-call- Social Security fund? Hancock, N. Y. The state of the Social Security fund is a topic the bureaucrats at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare would rather not discuss. However, if you press them as we have, they will reply that the Social Security funds is . . . not in any danger of going bankrupt, either now or in the future. Which, as such things go, is entirely correct. For the fund is already bankrupt! The. chiefs of the Bank for International Settlements in Switzerland point out that the U.S. government has borrowed every penny of the Social Security reserve and spent it. The workers cash was replaced by government bonds, which are merely the governments IOUs. Like the public gold in Fort Knox, their money is gone with the wind. And this fraud is costing you a fortune. Columnist Henry J. Taylor recently revealed: In the initial 1937-4- 9 period the Social Security tax shared by employer and employee was a combined $60 annually. This year the bill will be $960. The increase is about 1,300 percent. And remember that the employers share is paid (through lower wages or higher prices) by the employee. Analyzing figures collected by economist Milton Friedman, commentator M. Stanton Evans observes: Maximum lf times since payments have increased about 1950; but Social Security taxes have experienced a staggering sevenfold increase during the same period, with no apparent end in sight. The American taxpayer makes up the difference. Attorney Abraham Ellis has reported that since Social Security started in 1937 there have been seventeen tax andor wageba.se increases. Although benefits have increased 1 19 the Social Security takes have increased 480. The wage-earnthus has received but 25 cents on every additional dollar paid into the fund and this was before the latest 20 percent benefit increase. were allowed to keep his Alternatively, if the wage-earnown money instead of turning it over-v- ia voluntary contributions-t- o the bureaucrats, and if he put less than half of what is now required into private pensions or annuity plans, this is what would result: By age 65 he would have accumulated a total of $76,000, or could choose to receive payments of $570 a month. Under the present mandatory government program the average retired worker gets back approximately $160 monthly. Social Security is more than a fraud - it is theft from young and old alike. The Review Of The NEWS The Right A nswers " A. three-and-a-ha- er -- er Sun Gabriel Valley Tribune published American a recently picture of the flag flying upside down, a signal of distress, from atop the Statue of Liberty. I am not in sympathy with the agitators who placed it there as protest to the Vietnam War but you must admit it is appropriate. anti-America- n America IS in distress when it permits such a group to take over and barricade a national monument in defiance of law. America IS in distress when it sends its fighting men to war then refuses to allow them to win. America is in even worse distress when it permits trade with, and gives aid to, those countries supplying arms to the enemy killing our servicemen in that war. America is asking for more trouble when it permits the downgrading and weakening of its armed forces while its enemies grow stronger. America is in trouble when it allows its President to overnight wipe out the free enterprise system, the very foundation of this great country, and proclaiming wage by price controls. America is in deep trouble when it encourages welfare, rather than an honest days work, as a way of life. America adds to its trouble when it permits its government to so overspend on socialistic welfare programs that it must devalue its currency while taxing its citizens out of their hard earned homes. America is in distress when it Continued on Page 3 |