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Sen Joseph Joe Mccarthy — Part 15
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needa, But here's the picture,
Billione of our tax dollars are pouring into the ratholes of Europe and
Agia and the pouring hee only started, At home swarms of buregucpats are stumbl-
ing ali over themselves in a mad rush to burn our tex dollars into votes, Meane
while, our enormous debt, deficit spending and inflation are eating away the earn
ings, the savings, the insurance end the pensions of Mr. ang Mrs. Anerica,
With an estimated population increase to 155 million by 1955, here is a
list of our own needa which must be met just to keep our standard of living whert
it tee . Se
To get rid of cur shameful slums and give us an average minimun stand-
ard of housing equal to the 1.. 21 of 1940 we need an estimated 77} billion
doliars; we need 12 billion dollars to bring our schools up te date.
We need 9 billion dollara for hoepitele. ,
We need 41 billion dollere for our nation's highways,
Tits is how we are neglecting our own. -
What do you think would happen if we added lir, Truman's inedetent demand
for a sixty percent increase in this staggering. tribute we gre already paying the
Fair Peal Rureaucracy? . , _
When men evffer such illusiona of grandeur they have been in power far
too Jong. And all one can sey of Mr. Truman and his Fair Deal Rabblerousers in
their present state of mind, is that “those whom the Goda would destroy, they
first make mad," .
They say we don't know what we stand tor; that we have no program, 86 ve
can’t help straighten out this meas, Well, under the Republican Goth Congress,
we ghowed the American people where we stand and what we can do, Under the
Republican 80th Congress we achieved the highest national income in our history,
highest farm income, high wages across the board and our lowest peacetime unéme
ployment level, The Republican Goth Congress met our tremendous obligations doth
at home and abroad and at the same time reduced taxes , balanced the Federal Budg |
y “ for the first time in sixteen years and left @ huge surplus in the Federal
x Treasury. . |
We aid it ferore and we can do it againt3!
fed Unaateal
Ap Repub cans we have net been a party that bas been fostering anid
So
Saves Ne the bfoe Be of deamastet infiltration in the Federal Governmert. |
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