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Show Faith - Our Greatest Need Defensive action alone ultimately winds up in defeat. This is common knowledge, yet our prevalent political phi-losopy phi-losopy has been defensive. For example, pur people are against Communism but most of us fail to realize that merely being against it is meaningless. To win, you have got to be for something. More people who know what they are for rather than what they are against is the greatest need of the moment people who do not weigh the value of personal liberty in terms of television sets, price indexes, so-called social gains and the animal comforts politicians love to harp on as -vote-getting devices. The bitter truth is that we are losing our personal liberty at home just as we have been losing the contest with world communism because we haven't the guts to be for something. We have been losing because we have not had faith in the founding principle of our own government govern-ment independence. We have tolerated the development of a bureaucracy which has grown into a colossus that takes a third of all paychecks. We have accepted lying down the mouthings of power-hungry politicians who are spending our depreciated currency at the rate of $85,000,-000,000 $85,000,-000,000 annually. We have been taught to be cynical toward to-ward productive industry and thrift and the property rights of private citizens. From this point it can be but a short step to political and religious oppression. The current budget of the Federal Government over $85,000,000,000 recently inspired a blistering editorial by Life magazine: . . . Congress had damn well better pass some self-reforming acts . . . Otherwise the federal budget bud-get will remain the incomprehensible sign of America's creeping retreat from political self-control to tyranny through ignorance." Only an exhibition of faith in independence and a hatred of government oppression and excessive taxation can stem the growth of internal bureaucracy and the soil destroying march of world communism, and perpetuate . the United States we have known. |