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Saying "No" [Part] II

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.		Details Batch Number 79-03-B2 Production Date 02/13/1979 Book/Page N/A Audio Youtube? No
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