GOLDWATER MISLEADS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400110012-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 13, 2000
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: February 8, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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the following ways: Big govern- longer keeps pace with thei
ment on the Poto
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efly
the product of the warfare
state, not of the welfare state.
More than half the total budg-
et goes directly to the Armed
Forces. Even the non-military
side of the budget relates to
warfare requirements, past
and prospective, not to welfare
programs.
Our space technology,
Atomic Energy, and Central
!III teliigen envies are.. all
di y inked to our national
security. The swollen cost of
jdiplomacy and foreign aid, in-
!eluding military assistance. to
F
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ing cost of our Involvement in
past wars
veterans' benefits;
,
and interest payments on th
war debts and the grand total
accounts for a staggering 80%
of all federal spending! It is
these tremendous costs which
we have had to sustain almost
without lettip for almost'.`20
years that .mainly account for,
big government'in Washington
today.
Of our federal tax dollar, the
national government spends
only 7 cents on all the welfare
programs it , supports. ' The
Goldwater attack, stripped to
its essentials, is really a ,camp
pain against these programs
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growth of the country. This
national growth is something
In 1952 there were 16 f,?deral
employes for every thousand
population. By 1958 this num-
ber had dropped to 14, and it
will be 13 in fiscal 1964. In the decade from '52 to '62 total
federal civilian employment
fell 3%-while employment by
state and local governments
increased by 63%! If "creeping
socialism" is measured by the
rising tide of government em-
ployees, the sentinels would doj
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