The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-01-11
THE DOUGH WILL FLY
THIS YEAR.


check to turn the long green loose
across the ocean this year. 1t is
claimed we have to put out the
dough to keep friends among the
Arabs and various polyglot hordes
and tribes in many lands. 1t used
to be we made friends by good
deeds, but now we make friends by
throwing away the purse strings
until the purse is empty.
We are going to see money pour
ed about in lands across the ocean,
and while it is flowing, business in
many quarters will be stimulated,
and jobs created for many of our
people who wish to go far away
to work. We folks who have to re-
main here at home will find no
greater income, maybe less, we
may have less of everything, for
the cost of living will increase. We
will find gas prices going up to us,
because we are sending gas across
the ocean to aid folks who threw
theirs away.
During this year we may expect
to see Uncle Sam be Santa Claus
to Europe and Asia in the biggest
way in all the epoch of the 'give-
away" Well have to do some
spending at home, and this will be
for defense purposes, for nothing
catches the fancy like the prospect
of more jobs in uniforms. 1t looks
like 40 billions for defense this
time. We are going to feed half of
Hungary, and they'll all be on the
voting books next year, ready to
do their bit for the party which
brought them over where they've
never had it so good. We will put
billions in the Suez canal to make
it bigger for Egypt to take
over, and to pacify Egypt because
France and England tore it up.
We will also have to build those
dark-skinned chiselers some water
power projects to keep them from
accepting financial aid from the
Reds. We are going to give much
to the Indians, the Arabs, and the
Jews in particular. And the only
folks who will get much consider
alton here at home will be the
pressure groups demanding the
world with a fence around it for
the Negro agitators in the god
awful cities in Yankeeland where
neither character nor conscience
are words found in political lexi-
cons.
In about ten years, we have
shelled out 60 billion dollars in
hand outs to those with their hands
always out overseas. We will prob
ably keep on in rapidly increasing
the annual proportion of giving.
There is no way the average fell
low can tot it up. We give 'em
ships, we give EN- grain, we finance
the World Bank in which all get
their hands, and we doubt the pro-
verbal Philadelphia lawyer could
figure it out.
SO don't look for tax cuts, and
don't look for reduced cost of liv-
ing. We are going to find the trend
of this administration to encour-
age a great outlay of money with
continuing squeezing of the fellow
who has to earn a living. You will
find more benefits given to service
people, and their lot will be one of
greater ease than that of the ordi-
nary working guy. You'll find Gov
eminent offices jammed with in
creasing numbers of workers in
each others way, and a tendency
to give them fewer working hours,
and many encouragements for de-
crease in their volume of produc-
ton.
So look out for building and CIV
ing away bigger and better Suez
canal for the Egyptians; look out
for big handouts to Britain, West
Europe, North Africa, maybe to
Russia and possibly to Red China
if they promise to be our friends
in no other way. Look out for lay
offs to make room for such i'm.
ported refugees as may want to
work, or think they want some in
come.
We aren't going to find our own
country all sweetness and light I'M
der this administration, despite
what they told us last fall when
they claimed they had created
peace and prosperity for all. We
predict that it won't be So sweet
for the working man, and that
those who CARRY the burden are
going to have to be on their toes a
little more in 1857. The working
man can't slow up; the stuff will be
going past, but he'll have to be
swift to get it.