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Show What others are saying Marianne Means: "I'm already getting nervous about 1979, because it threatens to strain our entire social fabric. An All-American food staple is about to join the ranks of oil, automobiles and medical services. Tlie price of hamburger Is going up... .There's a logical sounding reason for this, having to do with the supply and demand of beef. But emotionally ti doesn't reach me. I've been stretching my budget by making meatloaf 100 wonderful ways all my adult life, and now I'll have to rethink everything." Kevin Phillips: "When you get right -down to the nitty-gritty of consumer rip-offs, it's hard to think of any used car lot anywhere that can hold a candle to the expensive busybodies at the Federal Trade Commission." M. Stanton Evans; "The First Amendment is under attack again, although the usual guardians of our civil leberties haven't had much to say about it. Spearheading this new assault against free speech is the Federal Trade Commission, which has proposed an effort to limit commercial speech on radio and television. Especially noteworthy is the fact that the FTC proposals in this regard would extend beyond the proviso that ads must not be fraudulent or misleading. The restrictions would actually require broadcasters to use words and formulas for-mulas that had been written for them by federal bureaucrats." Jack Newfield; "Ralph Nader's critics suggest that he has fallen prey to the deadly sins of ambition and greed. But this. ..is untrue. Nader has never run for political office. He has rejected all government funding In order to preserve his independence. Unlike Bess Myerson and others, Nader has never compromised the consumer movement by accepting a corporate directorship or consultant's job." Suzanne Gordon; "When are the doctors going to learn there's more to health care than money? Don't they watch television? When Marcus Welby chases a patient across southern California it's not because he wants to convince the patient to go . through a needless operation so he can buy a new Cadillac. It's because he wants that person to have a necessary operation that will save his life. Wallace Terry: "In the market-place-and football is a marketplace-we marketplace-we just don't practice what we preach. And Woody Hayes was among the worst offenders, declaring that football builds solid citizens; and the, when he lost, he behaved like a thug." |