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Show ALERT ! ! ! Even the thought of government govern-ment as planner and controller of my life -is exceedingly obnoxious ob-noxious to me! I hereby REBEL! Now I may not be as smart as some bureaucrat in Washington, Washing-ton, D. C. maybe he can "plan" my life better than I, but what is going to happen when I want to "go off on a tangent"-This tangent"-This is something I often like to do, and when I do I Just thumb my nose at all my carefully care-fully laid plans and take off! This would be very disconcerting to my bureaucrat controller Think of trying to cope with the eccentricities of even one million of our people who labor. I'm rather afraid he'd simply put his foot down on my eccentricities and say "here you naughty brat you, none of this! We must have discipline"! Now, I have no quarrel with discipline, I think it is quite necessary for the young and for the military! I've had my share of both, and its been very good to me. But I've now attained that age when I assure you my "tangents" "tan-gents" are completely harmless--they don't infringe on other people's peo-ple's rights, and so as a citizen of what is considered to be a free country, under my consti-tution. consti-tution. I insist on the right of having them! They please me and relieve me of a certain sense of stuffiness and this "in the rut sort of thing." But they J would have no place in a bureaucratic bur-eaucratic planned economy, from ' the cradle to the grave set-up! Let's take a hypothetical case, to prove our point. Let's say I'm a steelworker. I am making a good wage, pay. ing in on social security, promised pro-mised a pension if I stay on the job so long. I'm paying my union un-ion dues and my taxes, of course. But suddenly one morning, I wake up with the idea I'd like I to be a beachcomber for awhile instead of a steelworker! Why not? The best of jobs at times , fets irksome. I've saved some , money, so I'm going to head for the south seas. Today, I can do so, America is still in this sense at least free. But wait a minute, IF I do this, I'll of course lose my job. I won't be paying in on social security as long as I don't work, so when I get to be 65 I won't have enough money to! ven buy a sandwich, let alone: a square meal. I forfeit all rights' to the pension. I'll feel guilty to-1 ward the union for those dues are necessary to keep the bosses' in homes on Long Island, and I will throw the burden of my share in taxes on some other poor guy trying to make ends meet! I'm really a bit tied up even now, am I not? Anyway it is okeh by me for I can still go to the south seas. Now, IF I was under a "cradle "cra-dle to the grave set up" what happens! First of all I would be! Steelworker No. 37S654, C. I. O. member No. 7654. Social Security No. 66-765432. They've got me tagged! I couldn't just pick up and leave, for Rule No. Gy34 says in effect, "you are a steelworker steelwork-er all your years in steelwork-ing steelwork-ing means so much to the government. gov-ernment. We have it all figured out and it is ABSOLUTELY IM-jPERATIVE, IM-jPERATIVE, under Plan No. 666 I that YOU must work so long here In order to pay for Xs pension, since you are going to receive Ys money that he is paying In now for YOU! If we allow you to go we'd have to let others and the cost for everyone doing needless moving around would be TREMENDOUS. The CIO under planned economy econ-omy and I mean PLANNED, would visit me and gently remind re-mind me that they too have PLANS FOR MY DUES, which must not be upset! By the time I receive my Social Security in this set-up (they have upped it of course) I'll not be ALLOWED to go ANYWHERE I want, for by this time they have had to tax it also, in order to maintain the huge "gestapo" necessarv to KEEP THIS PLANNED ECON- OMY OPERATING ON SCHED- L'LE and all people in THEIR J PLACE I couldn't go anyway, if j they gave me permission to, be-: cause I wouldn't have the money. mon-ey. In such a set up you'll not be able to spend one thin dime on your own, they'll spend it ALL FOR YOU' George |