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Pack Of Lie*?
President Truman lias strongly defended his proposed Federal, budget, contending that no major eust can be made in any part of it without endangering the welfare of the nation. In a recent speech the President took his most aggressive position, when he stated that charges of waste and extravagance in the Federal establishment amount to a “pack of lies.”
The President has every right to his views. But if he is correct in this instance the country certainly is full of “packs of liars,” and they abound in the Demoicratic as well as the Republican party. Senator Byrd, for instance, holds—and substantiates his position with masses of facts and figures—that the budget could be reduced by something like 8 billion dollars without harming any • essential government activity^ Senator Douglas has waged a gal-, lant, but losing battle against pork-barrel spending which cannot vbe defended except on. voteseeking - political grounds. The Hoover Commission, which !was entirely non-partisan, showed precisely where - hUlions are. wasted in the administration of the government. Only a few of the Hoover Commission recommendations have been adopted and those that have been are of a relatively minor character.
The President's stand is logical only if we assume that centralized government must do everything for everybody. In essence, this assumption says that the people are incapable of taking care of themselves, and that, consequently they must be wards of the state. That is a philosophy of defeat and despair, and no nation could accept it and retain its strength and
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