ALL FOR WAR AND WELFARE

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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 1, 1998
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: January 12, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN

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Thursday, January 12, 1967
Page 48
Vol..30, No. 7.
ALL FOR WAR AND WELFARE. . (An Analysis) We are not going to.
take issue this year with the omission by the President of the national space program from
his report to the nation, his second year for doing so. While we will not accept his phi-
role of space to his plans for a "Great Society," we have come to understand that with the
President it is enough that the relatively fixed income he has assigned the program for the
next few years is sufficient to carry "his brainchild" forward at the rate he deems prudent.
- .los.ophy that the people of our country need not receive a deeper understanding of the -vital-
the attainment of the most elusive of all avenues of security --disarmament. He will-seek
this dream with a nation that is already putting the -same weapons around its cities that
Johnson refuses to acknowledge as necessary.
during the next decade. Yet the President says he will meet that responsibility by seeking
a possible Chinese threat which may materialize in as little as five years. Three years
of that tax would almost pay for a defense against what the Soviets might send against us
same $4.5 billion (for the first year) would pay for an anti-missile missile defense against
For the price of the new taxes he is asking the people to bear he promises to return it in
full to our aged in the form of Social Security. That 6 percent toll on our taxes will bring
in a revenue of $4.5 billion, the cost of a 20 percent increase.in the old age security. That
taxed for it is in direct relation to the people's knowledge of how well the Federal govern-
ment is providing for the continuity of national survival.
of his people. However, the acceptance of welfare and the permission of the people to be
agreement will he find and high are the rewards of the president that increases the welfare "
What we will take issue with is his unilateral and backwoods disarmament plans for the en-
tire nation while taxing the taxes of the people for improving the welfare of a small segment
of the people. Our President, perhaps the most astute politician, knows that little dis-
of the defense of its peoples?
good of a Social Security insurance when our children are not being provided the one insur-
ance that the Constitution specifically delegates to the Federal government -- the insurance
seek, but the wise will only seek that luxury. when the necessities of its people have been
assured. Can there be any greater necessity than the insurance of survival? What is the
Welfare within-the family of a nation is a luxury, a luxury that we all-.want and will always
No one spoke louder or more frequently for a public awareness of the dangers of unprepared-
ness when our nation was awakened to the fact that the Soviet Union had the first ICBM and
then the first space capability than did President Johnson in the era before he reached. the
White House. Now that he is President never has he spoken softer on the subject.' Rather,
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