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For a full minute Mike stood •there staggered by the enormity oi his had luck, (while 'his men waited breathlessly for the great explosion—the one magnificent outburst—that would fully express, his feelings, and theirs. His face grew red; he sputtered and finally, _with a gesture of utter, despair, he spoke at last:
‘Tellows,” he said, “I just ain’t up to it."
Well, I understand just how Mike Monaghan felt. “I just ain’t up to” finding words adequate to give a verbal blast to the highpowered profligates at Washington who axe on the wildest spending binge this natjon or any other nation has ever gone on. Those fellows must lie awake nights figuring out now and bigger plans for the further frittering away of America’s assets.
The amount of money being spent by the Federal Government is staggering—so staggering that Mr. Average Citizen just cannot comprehend it. Add to this the greatly increased spending of state and local governments and you come up with an over-all figure that proves the nation is rapidly. being spent into insolvency.
In 1951, the Federal, State and .local governments! spent0 an . amount equivalent to 57 per cent of total wages and salaries of all ; persons—from the lowest paid worker to the highest paid exiiTgainftil
“bbi£ government, pursuits.
54.3%