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Show COMMENTS FINANCIAL DREAM WORLD Study of the President's last budget to Congress, indicates indi-cates that the Federal debt is to reach at least $300,000,' 000,000 very shortly, which means $2 122, for every man, woman and child; that the "peacetime" normal expenses of government are to be doubled, tripled and maybe quadrupl-ed quadrupl-ed over that what they were before the war (interest alone on the debt at present is 4.5 billion) ; 'that the government intends to appropriate unlimited amounts for full employment, employ-ment, public works, rural electrification, financing of crop insurance, loans to stimulate private building, medical care, education, improvement of our homes, cities and farms, and tha development of transportation facilities and river valleys, val-leys, this is but a partial list of what public money k to be spent for. Tes it loos as though the United States can live in a financial dream until it rolls out of bed. |