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THE DENTON RECORD.
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The issues:
Where will Carter get the money? .
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Fir
An election quickie
ISSU E: Congress
keeps right on
spending — on itself
tativ es and their joint activities rose by
more than $100 million between 1960
and 1970 But from fisial 1970 to 1976
they rose again by more than $250
million to a total expenditure of $426
By PAUL HARVEY
Syndicated Columnist
, There is an issue this election The issue is poor
people Jimmy Carter champions the huddled
masses In most every public utterance he is
pleading the plight of the poor, the disad
vantaged ,
While President Ford thinks government
preoccupation with uplifting the poor has caused
us to discriminate against taxpayers
The candidate's
compassion
for the poor
is genuine
but who is
going to pay
for it?
Got time for an election quickie?
Circ le one of the below to complete this
sentence One of the major political
issues of the day is
A. The economy .
B Inflation
C Welfare
I) Abortion.
E National defense
HOW COULD YOU miss” If you
selected any one of them you re bat
ting 1 000 But there’s one item we’ve
yet to see reflected by any of today s
indepth pieces on the points of political
debate spending No not the kind
that immediately comes to mind
expenditures for public assistance or
services Its not being spent or
misspent depending upon your per
sonal leanings on the poor What we re
referring to is the soaring amount of
money Congress is spending on itself
million SINCE Till political conventions. Jimmy
Here s the ( Congressional agencies ( arter has been telling his audier ces that it s time
> and their estimated expenditures for to bypass the big shots and to concentrate on the
1976 disadv antaged He’speaks of his home county in
• The Architect of the t apitol has Georgia where poor women, mostly black have 20
iharge of the ( apitol building and times more cervical cancer because there are no
grounds and operation of the Senate doctors in the county
restaurant $74 5 million: Two hundred yards t rom my house he says.
• The I S Botanic Garden "there are people who are very poor and when
collects cultivate- and grows plants they get sic k it s almost impossible for them to get
for splay and for congressional of a doctor
fices" $1 2 million Carter says President Ford with his vetoes of
• The Genet al Accounting Office social legislation has contributed to needless
assists Congress in connection with human suffering He says this. Carter s. concern is
legal accounting auditing and claims for the poor and the black and those who speak a
settlment functions and supervises foreign language and those who ari not well
political campaign financing and
Harvey
educated and those who are inarticulate and those
who are timid
Further to identify himself as a champion of the
underdog farter has demanded that the Secret
Service stop hauling him to speeches in Cadillac
limousines He demands to be transported in
ordinary passenger cars
Angeles and at a Watts Neighborhood Center
Carter said there are 10 million blacks and 4
million Spanish-speaking who are not registered to •
vote He urged them to register and to vote
But vice presidential nominee Bob Dole has
been challenging Carter to be specific
Which of the President’s vetoes does he. Carter
find objectionable?
Dole asks What can government do for poor
people that government has not already done for
them?" .
To this Carter responds with references to
health, housing, welfare and jobs "
HE SAYS Longtime Washington politicians
have lost touch with poor people because they stay
in pow er too long and ride in limousines too long
and eat expensive meals in private clubs too
long
At the Chicano Grand Central Market in Los
HI T POLITIC AL strategy - which once called
for emphasizing the full employment" theme
is now being downplayed It has become in-
creasingly obvious that a substantial percentage
of the individuals Carter hopes will register and
vote are not really interested in "jobs
So if an observer can sort the specifics from the
rhetoric. Carter s compassion for his Georgia
neighbors who have less is genuine
Now what does he propose that government do
for them which government is not already doing ’
And who is going to pay for it? This has been made
a paramount campaign issue It deserves debate
ISSU ES WORTHY of public con
corn" Try $925 million in the fiscal year
just ended That’s what your elected
representatives spent on their behalf
If that doesn’t knock off your socks,
then consider the fact that it’s virtually
certain that Legislative Branch ex
penditures will shortly pass the billion
dollar rate
That’s the assessment of Robert C
Brown. Tax Foundation executive vice
president, who says that “substantial
growth in employment in the
Legislative Branch and significant
increases in salaries and other costs
will continue to send the cost of
Congress upward
Brown’s foundation is a publicly
supported, non profit organization
engaged in non partisan research on
the fiscal and management aspects of
government
The foundation’s Government
Finance Brief No 26 entitled "The
Legislative Branch the Next Billion
Dollar Bureaucracy" lists the expenses
for the Fiscal Year 1976 of the
Congressional establishment and the
Legislative agencies which serve it
THE BRIEF. Just published shows
that appropriations for the expenses nl
the Senate, the House of Represen
reporting $137 2 million
• The Government Printing Office
prints and sells government
publications $H7 million
• The Library of Congress
acquires and catalogs books and
materials published all over the world. __
provides reference services and
reading rooms and is responsible for
copyrighting $116 8 million
• The, Cost Accounting Standards
Board promulgates cost accounting
standards for federal contrators $1 6
million
• The Office of Technology
Assessment assesses impacts of
technologies and analyses alternatives
$6 5 million
• The Congressional Budget Office
assists House and Senate ap
propnations ways and means, finance
and budget committees with respect to
the budget. Federal revenues and
budget scorekeeping $4 7 million
THE $198 MILLION appropriated for
these agencies includes the last sup
piemental pay increase of $8 6 million
More than three-fourths of the increase
in employment, however, is for
congressional stall.
--------In 1960, members of Congress were.
paid $22,500 a year Today they are
paid $44,600 For Senators, each
memtier now receives a staff
allowance ranging from just under
$400,000 to more than $800,000 depen
ding on the population of his state
There are lots of—issues drawing-
debate in the political arena today
This one should rank at the top of the
list
GIYE ME YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR
Third party
entries fall
short of mark
By ANN ARNOLD
Capitol Reporter
AUSTIN. Tex. (UPD - Third party can-
didates stand so little chance of winning Texas
elections, political pundits pr edict their presence
on the 1976 ballot will not even effect the outcome
ot the vote in statewide races
Former Sen Eugene J McCarthy of Min-
nesota won a spot on the ballot with a last minute
court battle but former Georgia Gov Lester
Maddox lost his bid to have his name listed
THE AMERIC AN Party and Socialist Workers
Party have candidates on the ballot lor president
and vice president and some statew ide races but
are expected to attract only limited support
Another minority party — La Raza Unida —
has a candidate on the ballot for the Texas
Railroad Commission but is not expected to
attract even the limited support this year it has
in the past
"I don’t think any of the minority candidates
• will attract a substantial number bl voters in
Texas," said Secretary bf State Mark White "I
really don’t think McCarthy will draw many
votes. I don’t think it’ll change the result of our
race for president."
LoUGpAR
our
readers say
Woljijowicz discovers Poland is free
THIRD PARTY candidates seldom attract-
enough votes in Texas to alter the results of the
election, much less win
The closest any third party contender has
come to winning in a statewide race since the
advent of Democrats and Republicans was in
1896, according to Mary K Wall, researcher with
the Texas Legislative Council
A Populist candidate for governor in 1896 at-
tracted 238,000 votes but still lost when the
Democrat won 298,000 votes.
Declare war
on hot checks
To The Editor
How many times have you seen the sign
"No Personal Checks Cashed" Does this
upset you, especially when you have a sound
checking account" Have you ever wondered
why the sign is there"
By ART BUCHWALD 1.
Syndicated Columnist
WASHINGTON Probably the country most
affected by last week s presidential debates was
Poland President Ford in his startling
statement on Russian influence in Eastern
Europe said, among other things, that Poland
was not dominated by the Soviet Union and
would remain tree as long as he was President
The Polish people received the news with joy.
and a friend m Warsaw told me Oil the telephone
it has changed their lives overnight
Now that
Poland is not
in the sphere
of Soviet
influence,
things have
really changed
Buchwald
That’s terrible ”
Woljijowicz said. When the other lawyers in
Warsaw heard about it they petitioned the
chairman of the Communist Party to have their
colleague released from the asylum."
And he released him'*" I asked
IN THE 1968 presidential balloting. George
Wallace drew 584,000 votes to Hubert Hum
phrey’s 1.266.000 and Richard Nixon’s 1.227,00
"At first most people thought he helped Hubert
Humphrey win," said Dr Janice May,
University ot Texas - government - profesor
"Some more sophisticated research, however.
It is a well-known fact in Denton County
that if you are a "hot check artist " you don’t
have to worry about the law There have
been times when warrants have been issued
for an arrest for the offense of writing a
worthless check and two or three months
would go by before the warrant was ever
served in the meantime the person for
whom the warrant was issued is still
writing "hot checks" The State Criminal
Code states that anyone who writes a
worthless check is a thief We don’t hestitate
at putting the thief in jail who steals mer-
chandise or private propertv why should
there be an exception of the “hot check
artist".
AS SOON AS I heard the news I called my
friend Woljijowicz in Warsaw (This is not his
real name as I don’t want to get him in trouble
He told me. “This has been a great week for us
The day my brother in law Simcowitz heard the
news we were free he drank halt a bottle ot
Vodka and went out in the street and told a
Russian soldier to get the hell out ot the coun-
try" ’ -
"Thais wonderful," I said "Let me speak
with Simcowitz "
in campaigning throughout the county for
the office of sheriff, 1 have been told of case
after case where bad checks have been
passed and the sheriff’s office has done
nothing about it. Of course, we all realize
that the businesses who receive "hot
< hecks have to make up tins loss by raising
the prices of merchandise in their stores
Then when we make a purchase, we are the
ones who have to pay cash and the increased
price ‘
“YOL I NT. He was hauled off to jail for
insulting a foreign tourist
"That’s too bad." I said
“It’s the price you have to pay for being in a
tree country Woljijowicz said "My friend
Bedicovicz wrote an editorial in the new spaper.
Red Truth, pointing out that Simcowitz should
not have been arrested because, according to
Mr Ford. Poland was an independent,
autonomous nation
I II bet Bedicovicz got a good reaction to the
editorial
1 don’t know 1 haven’t seen him since They
closed up his newspaper and took him off to the
Ministry of Interior tor questioning ”
I m sorry to hear that ”
■ His W IFE hired a lawyer but the Minister of
the Interior denied he had ever heard ot
Bedicovicz He referred the lawyer to the Soviet
Consulate tor any information
What did the Soviet Consulate say?"
“They said the Polish lawyer should be in an
insane asylum and reterred him back to the
Minister ot the Inferior"
What did the minister say?
" He put the lawyer in an asylum for his own
good
NU HE TORE IP the petition and warned indicated Wallace drew support from both sides
them that if they kept up their agitation the and did not effect the outcome
Soviets would demand that they all be sent to La Raza Unida’s candidate for governor in
asylums too. " ------------1972 attracted enough votes to keep Democrat
"That’s terrible. I said Dolph Briscoe from winning with a majority
“Living in a Tree country doesn’t mean you can
yell Soviet pig’ in a crowded movie theater "
Did anyone yell ’Soviet pig’ in a movie
theater’"
"A Soviet political attache said someone did.
and he warned the chairman of the Polish
Communist Party that it he heard it again
Moscow would' have to take drastic steps to
protect its friendship with the Polish people "
"I don’t see why the Soviets should take um-
brage since Poland is not in the Russian sphere
of influence ”
■ TH AT’S w HAT Aronowicz said in a poem he
read in front of the Soviet War Memorial
yesterday"
I never heard of Aronowicz
Neither has his family since he read the
poem. Listen, I have to go now. There’s someone
knocking on the door." .........—-
Are you expecting anyone’’”
"At three o'clock in the morning?"
against his Republican opponent
Ramsey Muniz attracted far fewer votes in a
second bid as the La Raza nominee in 1974,
however
LA RAZA’S CANDIDATE for the powerful
Railroad Commission this year. Fred Rodriguez
Garza, is much less well known And the party’s
standing with voters has been tarnished
somewhat by Muniz' arrest earlier this year on
drug charges
The Socialist Workers candidate for the three-
man Railroad Commission. Houston railroad
worker Pat O’Reilly, has received little at-
tention
PEDROV \SQUEZ. Socialist candidate for the
Senate, has campaigned across the state but
acknowledged he is not a serious challenge to
incumbent Sen Lloyd Bentsen, D-Tex Vasquez
said his campaign is a primarily a tool tor the
party to attract new members.
As a candidate for sheriff, my pledge to
the citizens of Denton County is "To Wage
An All-Out War On The "hot check
problem of our county" /
Fred T. Chance
Highland Village
In defense of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society
By DAVIDE ANDERSON , Manpower Policy Task Forye. claim that the Ford, however, social initiatives reached a the working and non-working poor, he Mid
Political Writer 1 programs of the 1960s "had a massive, over-
WASHINGTON UPD - It is commonplace whelmingly beneficial impact and that the
these days, when it is popular for politicians to weight of evidence convincingly supports this
run against Washington, to cite the Great Society view
programs as examples of federal government’s Levitan and Taggert go through each of the
failure to bring about responsible social change, major initiatives of the Great Society program
■ But Ly ndon Johnson’s Great Society does have income support. . health care housing, civil
’ its defenders and two ot them. Sar A. Levitan rights, manpower and community organization
and Robert Taggert. have just published a major - and they present a vast array ot statistics,
defense of the last decade’s social programs and frequently overlooked by critics of the program
their achievements to show that the programs did work in alleviating
the plight of the poor and extending society’s
benefits to the disadvantaged and the disen-
in a book called "The Promise of Greatness"
(Harvard University Press), Levitan, director of
the Center for Manpower Policy Studies, and
Taggert, executive director of the National
franchised.
Levitan, in an interview, argued that under
plateau "The impetus that was given by the “The most critical domestic issue, Levitan
social programs of the 1985 is now decaying, and Taggert said in their book, "is whether to
be said move forward to complete and rationalize the
Levitan argued that there currently is a great * social welfare system or to try to halt or reverse
need for new initiatives Otherwise, what the developments of the previous decade ”
happened a decade ago erodes and we continue T
with old programs that are no longer ap- But they said the Great Society programs
or opr, ate have promoted the general welfare, and they
He suggested that the nation has gone "about have brought the natiop to a mountaintop
as tar as it can at present in basic welfare where i is possible to see beyond the welfare
programs for the nonworking poor Having state
provided for the bulk ot the poor arid brought
them up to the poverty level." he said. "I would
now emphasize the needs of the working poor.
■ We need a greater differentiation between
/Once a package of aid is provided which
guarantees an income above the poverty
threshold, improvements in the system should
prove easier
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