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Show THE AMERICAN WAY Stealing Pennies jt'n From Baby's Bank -By Geort Pl--FZ4k' it The penalty for the reckless spending in which we, as a nation, have indulged during the past fifteen years, will not fall on us it will be imposed upon up-on our children and grand children. chil-dren. Our youngsters, now living liv-ing or as yet unborn, who are in no way responsible for the staggering national debt that we adults have built up, are the ones who will be required to pay the "piper" for our spending spend-ing "binge." Yes, for our own selfish benefit, bene-fit, we have robbed our children of their heritage, and what is more deplorable, we have bequeathed be-queathed them a legacy of heart- aches and back breaking debt. We Americans have long prided pri-ded ourselves on being a benevolent bene-volent people, but there seems to have been nothing of kindliness kindli-ness in the spending orgy which we not only condoned, but actually ac-tually abetted. In fact, it smacks of downright dishonesty. We knew, or should have known, we were giving out promissory notes that we ourselves could not possibly pay, "and which will have to be met by our children, with interest. For over a decade and a half we listened to and heeded the siren voices of political leaders whose every utterance should have warned us they had minds reflecting the unbalanced training train-ing of welfare workers. Their every action indicated they knew how to dissipate money, but kpew nothing and cared even less about how wealth is produced. Many of the things they advocated ad-vocated were eminently desirable, desi-rable, such as better housing, old age pensions, etc. There is rightfully in this country a strong tide of sentiment for better things for more people. That has ever been the spirit of America. But we let our emotional emo-tional sentiments destroy our sense of values, taking no thought as to when' these boons were to be paid for arid by whom they were to be paid. To obtain these worthy objectives, ob-jectives, we mortgaged the future fu-ture of our children and our childrens' children. We have put an impost upon them that will make their lives unbearable. unbear-able. We have been guilty of conduct unbecoming to parents Our offspring, instead of rc vering our memories, will damn us for our selfishness and utter lack of common sense. Spending by government was at first a s'op-gap to tide us over a temporary emergency. But it developed into a chronic habit, assuming a definite aspect as-pect of permanency. It has brought us perilously close to national bankruptcy, and it concentrated sufficient wealth in government to give certain heads of that government more power than a free country can long stand, and remain free. Last November 5 we elected a Republican congress. The Republicans Re-publicans promised to put an end to this deficit government spending.- It is up to us constantly con-stantly to remind our Congressmen Congress-men and Senators that we insist in-sist on their keeping that campaign cam-paign pledge. Even if the danger dan-ger of national economic collapse col-lapse doesn't scare us into demanding de-manding a halt to wanton waste of public funds, surely we are not so callous as to entirely forget our parental obligations. We must regard the rights of our children. The time surely has come to stop "STEALING PENNIES FROM BABY'S BANK |