| Show SPEND SPEND SPEND raymond moley devoted one of his recent newsweek columns to sen paul douglas and almost totally unsuccessful efforts to wring a little of the water out of the federal budget in conclusion he wrote it will t take ake more than name calling phony statistics and wisecracks wise cracks by the president to adissi I 1 pate the feeling over this country that since people bare are being forced by higher taxes to practice self denial the government should set the example all through the country there are too many glaring examples 1 kamples of federal extravagance to escape notice the country is a rich one but it cannot stand military expenses of the size that will be essential unless there althere is economy in nonmilitary spending taxes will not suffice and inflation must be the deadly every proposal to economize has been steam I 1 j I 1 roll ellered ered to death in congress that is true of the luge rivers and harbors bill which is the pork bar jel el deluxe it is true of such lesser matters as sen proposal to abolish the old practice of maintaining at the taxpayers expense a free barber hop aop for senators the number of congressional which have been raised against waste are piti ully few and can hardly be heard over the roaring spend spend spend tax tax tax chorus i if there is any better way to destroy a country rom within than to countenance waste extravagance nd corruption no one has thought of it the people re ire being bled white by taxes now and the incentive 0 work to save and to achieve is being destroyed t we keep on going in the present direction there an n be only one end and that is national bankruptcy id d national ruin it happened to great empires of ast t times it can happen here |
