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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand December 6, 1973 The Utah Independent Page 3 READERS OUTLOOK TOM ANDERSON Continued from page 2 As you know there is a tendency on the part of the government to industries in some circumstances. Certainly there is no justification to regulate the vitamin industry except in cases where it can be shown that certain vitamins arc harmful to ones health, or where there is misleading and dishonest advertising. There arc a number of bills before Congress that would limit the Food and Drug Administrations authority to curtail the selling of vitamins. As of now 1 have chosen not to sponsor any particular bill, but rather, will support the bill which most assures the consumer the right to choose for himself what vitamins he buys, providing such vitamins would not harm,his health or mislead him by making extravagant claims which are not supported by fact. The right of free choice should be maintained. have received information from a number of sides of this issue and have become disturbed by ' what I have learned. Consequently, I have contacted the chairman of over-regula- te will not curb our multinational corporationists from exporting DEPRESSION A INEVITABLE leading economic soothsayer says we are facing inflation and depression simultaneously. The Federal Reserve will continue to pump new money into the economy, particularly when there are signs, of a recession. But even a would depression not necessarily bring ,on lower prices, although it might well bring on revolution. Wage rates in a coming depression could even be raised, by a higher and increasing minimum wage law and by more welfare benefits for Depression is inevitable, mainly because we are like an alcoholic who is unwilling to take the cure. Cutting down from a fifth a day to a pint a day won't do it. An alcoholic either quits or drowns in it. Our leaders lack the character to quit. We will not have a balanced budget. We will not stop the Federal Reserve from running the money presses overtime. We will not prevent the giant monopolistic labor unions from bribing and blackmailing us into ever-mor- e pay for non-worke- rs. production. We will not quit pouring out billions ever-les- s welfare, money ..to of loafers, hippies, able-to-wo- rk and breeders-for-profi- We t. will not take a meat axe to spending and drastically reduce the size and scope of government. We will not make the Europeans pay their share for the billions of dollars we spend maintaining an army in Europe to keep Russia from enslaving them all. (Germany is the only nation which pays us anything). We will not quit pouring billions of dollars of goods and wherewithal into the ratholes of the world. We will not quit punishing, harassing, penalizing, taxing, government molesting, robbing and bankrupting thousands of American businesses because of the ecology nuts. (The main things we need to recycle are Ralph Nader and O.S.H.A.) We will not lower taxes. We more know-ho- more and jobs, and profits to our w worldwide friends and enemies. Those things we will not do. But why positive? you ask. not O.K. What we will do is go broke. NIXONS NIXON 1 A newspaper headline says Agnew Tragedy Dealt Conservatives a Blow. Responsible conservatives, like William F. Buckley, who has suggested that maybe we should take over one or two of the Arab countries by force, so wed have plenty of oil of our As any conservative responsible should have known all along, Agnew has never been a conservative. Hes always been a Rockefeller liberal. was The Agnewstic. phony Agnew was designated to take on the same job for the phony Nixon as the phony Nixon took on for the phony Eisenhower: pacifier of the right wing. Agnew was Nixons Nixon. And both are as phony as tears. Lyndon Johnson once said that Gerald Ford was so dumb that he can't chew gum and walk at the same time. dont know whether that is true or not, but I do know that brains is not the main i President. is integrity. And we havent had that in 40 thing we need in The main thing a years. True, a Vice President is as useless as an appendix, unless circumstance requires him to be President. And in all his 25 years in Congress, none of his peers ever- suggested, I believe, that Gerald Ford was the man who should someday be President. But then, who in his right mind would want Ford's peers to be picking our President anyway? The American Way Features - 484-122- 6 PONDEROSA HILLS STOP ABORTION I'M TOO YOUNG TO DIE! is that development generation succeeding at I the Face on the barroom floor the Republican Convention in Miami when Nixon picked Agnew in 1968 and I wrote at I am an the time: I Escape to peace and quiet, best fishing, hunting recreational area in Utah. $350.00 per acre in 10 acre parcels. $3500 complete price. Phone 4844421 Evenings 1 own. 10 ACRE RETREAT , be Tom Rose TOM'S CORNER WHO WILL RATION? When the President recently addressed the people of these States United (sic) about the looming energy shortage, he said some things that are true. He also said some things that are not true. He spoke truly when he said that we have: -- half the world's known coal reserves, -huge, untapped sources of natural gas, -- oil in our continental shelves, -- oil shale in our western lands. -- some of the finest technical and scientific minds. In short, the President pointed out that we have, all of the necessary resources to successfully meet the energy challenge that now faces us. To this extent, he accurately zeroed in on the truth. Question: Why. with all of these resources, do we have an energy shortage? But the President missed the truth by a wide margin when he claimed that ...our deeper energy problems come not from war (the Arab-lsrae- li war) but from peace and abundance. He was wrong when he said, We are running out of energy today because our economy has grown enormously and because, in prosperity, what were once considered luxuries are now considered necessities." The truth is this: A characteristic mark of America's economic each has naturally tended to regard the luxuries of the last generation as its own necessities. Why is it. 1 ask, after over 300 years of continuous material progress in America without fuel shortages, that we should suddenly stumble upon an energy crisis in 1973? What is different today than from 1620 to 1950? If we have abundant fuel why arent they supplies, Could it be available? abundantly historical that the proem by which these supplies have been made available has changed? Historically, energy in America has been supplied by profit-seekin- g privc entrepreneurs and profit-orientrs corporations. These have invested millions and millions of dollars every year in their long-ranplans to supply the energy needs of the American people. Historically, ed risk-take- ge ever-growi- ng have they adjusted their signals. complained that They and Foreign i ij a aji aj aj aja were inadequate to encourage the discovery and development of new oil and gas supplies for the future. In addition they have had to face increasingly difficult political barriers whenever they wanted to erect new refineries, lay new' pipelines, or erect new power plants. The five-ye- ar delay in the Alaskan pipeline to the North Slope is just one example. Neither the Mideast war nor American prosperity has caused our present energy crisis. It was caused by political meddling. of Increased political-directio- n activities business legitimate profit-directiis at the instead of of heart our problem. And crises wont be recurrent eliminated until Washington political control is removed. The basic question Americans must answer is, Who will ration?" Will it be price signals generated in the free market? Or will it be politicians in Washington? (All prices on production plans to price signals received through the competitive For over three marketplace. centuries this free market process has been eminently successful. And competing sources of energy have always been in abundant supply at reasonable prices. But during the last two or three decades especially since 1955 when the FPC started controlling the well-hea- d price of gas and oil energy suppliers have faced non market Interstate Commerce Committee and urged him to hold extensive hearings on the bills as soon as possible so that all sides of the issue can be clearly explained and the right decisions made. Sincerely. Gunn McKay Member of Congress ; rights American reserved. Enterprise Publications.) have America needs your help! FPC-controll- ed TJ1 ill Independent Salt Lake City, Utah The Utah Independent is published by the Utah Independent each Tuesday at 2459 Major Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115. Yearly subscription rate is $6.00 per year by surface mail in the United States, $10.00 foreign. Second Class Postage Paid at Salt Lake City Send change of addrees forme and correspondence to 2459 Major , Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 Utah's Largest and Fastest- - Growing Subscription Weekly I |