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Show A Poor Trade "Why are we in this position? Who is to blame? All of us who have been willing to trade our individual responsibility respon-sibility for false security from a paternalistic state." The above are not the words of that favorite whipping boy of the Left, the reactionary Wall Street Tycoon. Nor are they, believe it or not, taken from the embittered swan song of a Republican turned out of office by a fair dealer. They are the words of a man who works at the extension exten-sion service experiment station at the Utah State Agricultural Agricul-tural college at Logan. He is Dee A. Broadbent and he is assistant director of the experiment station. Mr. Broadbent is an educator, a man who works with new ideas in agriculture. agri-culture. Obviously, his life and his thoughts are a long way from Wall Street, the supposed source of ill-will for the Welfare state. Before asking the above questions and giving their answer, Mr. Broadbent said this: "The government now dominates our agriculture economy. . . The nation's two largest industries, agriculture agricul-ture and construction, are government subsidized." A man would be a fool to claim that one or the other of America's dominent political parties is completely responsible respon-sible for the economic bondage to which Mr. Broadbent refers. The Democrats are past masters at subsidizing various segments of the American vote with federal funds. But let it not be forgotten that the Republican-dominated Eightieth congress passed the biggest farm subsidy program in history his-tory up to that time and that western mining operators, manv of whom wear the Republican badge proudly, are right now trying to get bigger government subsidies for the mining industry. No! Those who are willing and those who are not, to accept a government handout are not separated by party j lines. ttti 1,1 . . . ..... - wnen you asK tne guestion: who is responsible tor the fact that 30 per cent of the national income is now being spent by the federal government; for the fact that millions . of Americans, once proud of their freedom, economic and otherwise, are now willing to cup their hands to the shower of false gold from Washington; then you must, in all candor, answer' as Mr. Broadbent did: "All of us who are willing to trade our individual responsibility. re-sponsibility. . ." |