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Show WALTER SHE AD What About Federal Spending? . ' FEDERAL spending in general and President Truman's 1947 budget In particular combined to make a wonderfully bouncy political footbat which both parties have kicked about sportively all year. (A political football is a thin tissue of truths and half-truths inflated out of all proportion pro-portion with air of a strictly torrid temperature.) As a result, the average aver-age American working man continues to go about thought fully rubbinj two nickels together and wondering if his government is really as extravagant ex-travagant as a night club blonde or whether It Is making a genuine ctTorl to cut financial corners. What Is tho truth? I'rolmbly It Is Impossible to got nn accurate accu-rate hearing on nil the true facts. The Republican congress raised n victory chant over its cutting of Mr. Truman's budget estimates. And, if wo can believe what wo read, many agency appropriations appropria-tions were slushed considerably, Including the army, navy. Interior Inte-rior department and agriculture department. Hut the President, with a weather eyo out for his big day in November, Novem-ber, 19411, has cnirai up with another Idea. He has accused congress ol working the hidden ball trick, intimating that the illustrious memberi havo shifted various budget Items around to produce the illusion thai they have effected A great savings. In other words, did wo put ntvj money in the bank, or did we blow It all at the races? |