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Show NO EASY ROAD BACK ( There is so much loose talk in political circles about the (riKht to a job" that it has become almost meaningless. Rights" have become confused with "opportunities." The United States constitution and bill of rights guarantee guaran-tee every citizen fundamental rights that make him a fqee man to enjoy the opportunity to go as far as he can, based on his ability, ambition and energy. Beyond that, government govern-ment owes a free man nothing, except if he is destitute or mentally deficient, or handicapped in ways beyond his control. con-trol. Government should then provide satisfactory means for his care and comfort that is what government is for. But to try to fool the people with the idea that the government govern-ment owes a man a living and can create and maintain countless count-less millions of jobs, without destroying a free country, is rank hypocrisy. Vote-seeking politicians are trying to make millions of war workers think a benign government can take over all their troubles after the war. Within reason, a governmjent can widen the "opportunities" whereby men can have jobs, recreation and high wages. The extent to which one takes advantage of opportunities, depends upon the will and purpose pur-pose of the individual. As government or anyone else can expand "opportunities", the chances for advancement in living standards are greater, but in no sense are such benefits bene-fits "rights" to which anyone is entitled, without respect to his own effort to obtain them. History has shown that when the people of any nation depends on government to' do their thinking and provide for them, it is only a short time before they lose their ambition, their initiative and their freedom. ' There will be no easy road to full employment and prosperity after this destructive destruc-tive war. Only a people who work and save and do not look to government for handouts, will survive and retain their personal liberties. i |