The Sidney herald., 1962-10-31

dollars overseas trying to buy
friends. We have sent electric
blankets to the Negro in Equator
ial Africa and refrigerators and
iceboxes to the Eskimo in far off
Greenland. And we have found as
a Nation what we as individuals
have always known that you
can't buy friendship.
F.. In the past 80 years there have
been "a Federal Deficits, there
will be another this year, and an
other next year. In 1910 the FEEDER
al Government had a tax revenue
of approximately 5 billion and in
1861 approximately "a billion. And
l want to ask you this-what is
government doing for us today
that it wasn't doing in 1910 that
warrants this terrific increase?
Think it over. The Federal debt
when F.D.R. came into power
was 22.5 billion and we are told
that today it is 800 billion. This
is a fallacy because when you add
TO the 800 billion past and present
commitments our National debt is
around $50 billion dollars-a total
debt of around 1000 for every
man, woman and child in the
United States. And you want to
pass on to your children a free
nation! This is serious, my friends.
And today, with the New From
tier, the Kennedy clan wants to
burden us with more debt. Some
great words were spoken when
President Kennedy took office.
ASK not what your country can
do for you, but what you can do
for your country" l think there
was a typographical error in that
speech because judging by his leg
lSlatlve program, l think this is
wnat ne meant to say, ASK not
what you can do for your country.
put ask what our country can dc
for youl"
Nlkita Krushchev said, 1--WE can
not expect Americans TO iumr
from Capitalism to communism
but we can assist the elected
leaders in giving Americans small
doses of socialism, until they sud.
denly awake to find they have
communism" Our elected leader.
nave not said what Krushchev ha.
openly said, but their actions II
the past $3.50 years, have certain.
ly not contradicted his statement
Today annual federal aid Il
states, cities and individuals which
amounted to less than $50 million
dollars in 1880 now exceeds ovel
10 billion. More than the tota
budget of the Federal Govern.
ment IN any one year prior Il
World War III. 81 cents Of ever,
dollar earned goes to the tax col.
lector.
One in every six Americans /.
on a government payroll. Mation.
al, State or local.) Two years acc
there were 215, 1000 people on the
Federal Payroll in Washington. ID
G, alone. And today there ar,
235, 1000. Approximately 80 new
Government jobs being created
every day in Washington, DC
alone. And paid for by your ia,
dollar and mine. Today socia.
security payments exceed Socia
Security collections. And it will.
get worse. This will have to be
paid by your children and grand
children. And / could go on and or
enumerating the thousands OF
ways in which we are giving III
our liberty under the guise OF
security.
But what is the cure? / believe
that first we must throw off the
defeatist attitude. Some of my fell
low businessmen say, whats the
use? This thing has gone so fan
now there is no stopping it," Sc
many feel today that Government
has gotten so big, so all powerful
so much a part of our everyday
life, that we can no longer con-
troll it. And this is false because
this is where Government starts
right here in this room We are
the people who decide who is 60
ing to be our elected representa-
tives. If we believe in a free his.