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= Saying "No" [Part] II =

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=== Transcript ===
On the previous broadcast I told of a survey being made of financial institutions
by the Senator Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs and one man's reply.
President James G. Schneider of the Kankakee, Illinois Federal Savings & Loan
association, informed the committee he just plain wasn't going to answer their questions.
He also told them how ridiculous he thought they were.

This was not the first time Mr. Schneider has expressed himself regarding
government antics. Three years ago he wrote an article under the intriguing title,
"Compared to our Present Federal Government--King George III was a Nice Guy". I
thought you might enjoy a few excerpts from that essay.

Mr. Schneider gets right to the point in his opening lines: "Among the many
reasons given by the framers of the Declaration of Independence was the complaint
that George III, has erected a multitude of new offices and has sent hither swarms
of officers to harass our people and to eat out their substance." Well King George
was really a piker compared to our present federal government. Mr. Schneider goes
on to say of our government: Its irresponsible deficit spending is the main cause
of inflation which is relentlessly eating out our substance every day of every year.
And the swarms of officers that it has sent to harass our people would boggle King
George's mind even more than it was. Of course George has been excused by many
historians on the basis that he was demented. Can that also excuse our congressmen
and bureaucrats? Perhaps. But really, the ones who must be demented are those of
us who sit back and supinely take whatever the bureaucracy dishes out."

The essay then goes on concerning the subject that caused its writing which
was the same thing I discussed in the last broadcast. If you didn't hear it, I was
reporting on the federal government's challenge that companies paying dues for
employees in service clubs must not do so if the clubs were all-male or restricted
to female membership. This is supposed to be discriminatory.

Now remember the essay I'm quoting from today was written three years ago. It
would seem that bureaucracy has staying power.

Continuing the essay, Mr. Schneider says, "We have our bureaucratic friends
corning on board to tell us how we shall run our business and what we may or may not do
in regard to public and community relations--even when these minor expenditures are of
such great benefit to the people of this area. They don't understand about the
fellowship that goes into convincing successful businessmen and women to take part of their
time and their company's time to work for the community good."

He says very much more but concludes, speaking of the meaning of Concord bridge
and the cause that made men do what they did there. And then writes -- "If you sit
and do nothing, you're in fact voting for the end of freedom in this nation. And
that's just as certain as whether the sun will rise in the east tomorrow morning."

This is Ronald Reagan.

Thanks for listening.
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<TD>Production Date</TD><TD>02/13/[[Radio1979|1979]]</TD></TR>
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<TD>Youtube?</TD><TD>No</TD></TR>
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