Show WALTER SHEAD what about federal spending F spending in general and president Tr truma ls 1947 budget in 10 particular com combined Lined to make a wonderfully bouncy political football which both parties have kicked about all year A political cRl football is a thin tissue of truths and half truths inflate inflated ed out of ill all proportion with air of a strictly torrid temperature As a result the average american working man continues con tindes to godbout go about thoughtfully rubbing two nickels together and wondering if his government Is really as extravagant trava gant as a nightclub night club blonds blonde or whether it Is making a genuine effort to cut financial corn corners ers what is alio truth probably it IsAm Is impossible possible to boget get an accurate bearing on all ali the true truel facts acts the republican congress raised a victory chant over its cutting of mr Tr budget estimates and if 11 we can an believe bellev what we read ad many agency appropriations a were slashed considerably including the army navy interior department and agriculture department gut but the president with a weather eye out abr his big day in november no avem vem 1948 has come up with another radea idea he has accused congress of working the hidden ball trio trick k intimating that the illustrious members have shifted various budget items around to produce the illusion that they have effected a great savings in other words di did d we put a any ny money in the bank or did we blow it all at the races |