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Show Let's Consider the Human Element It is gratifying to read the reports each week that are sent home by our Congressmen as to their activities. It is also a pleasure to read their speeches in the Congressional Record and thereby be able to follow their ideas on different subjects. The huge disappointment is that most of the accomplishments are in the area of obtaining more tax money for .local projects, protection of land rights for the state versus the Federal government and many other non-personal results. All of this may be important, (except the expenditures of additional tax money), BUT wouldn't it be possible to worry about and do more for the human element. The Citizens. The Voter. Reading of the Congressional Record leads one to believe that there is an awareness by Congress that we, the people, are overburdened over-burdened with taxes, too much security, too much control, and too much fear of our own government. We read of attempts to save a billion here and a few million there but what is saved is spent some place else. We read of waste and we read of inefficiency. Nowhere do we read of action, of a positive nature, to give the public the relief which could so easily be obtained. Ten or twelve God-fearing statesmen with a sincere ideal before them could alter the situation in less time than it takes the hard pressed businessman to fill out his income tax forms. Since the time of the Declaration of Independence there has never been a more opportune time for a small group of Congressmen to become heroes of history. To stop this continual rise in taxes, stop this unnecessary hiring of more Federal employees which merely increases "red tape" and expense, stop the waste and duplication of expenses, stop this give-away of our money, stop this complete hindrance to the individual businessman and the ones who do this can write their own ticket for the future. T, N. |
