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| Even with the world divided into two camps -- the authoritarians and the free
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| worlders -- we find that government, any government, has certain characteristics
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| The U.S. Commerce department claims that one American out of eight is living
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| below the poverty line set up by our government. The percentage figure is 12.3.
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| Professor Morton Paglia of Portland State University, writing in Policy Review,
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| says that isn't true. What the professor really said was "this is nonsense". He
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| sets the figures at one out of 27 or only 3.6 percent. How does he explain this?
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| Very simple. If you count "in kind" benefits such as food stamps, medical care and
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| public housing as income -- which it is -- you come up with the professor's figure.
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| You'd think the Department of Commerce would be able to see that.
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| On the other side of the world the men in the Kremlin, Amnesty International
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| and the International Labor Organization (from which American labor withdrew because
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| of the I.L.0. 's Communist tinge) are in a bit of a dispute. The Amnesty group charged
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| the Soviet Union with sending organizers of free labor unions off to mental hospitals.
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| The International Labor group ignored the charge. The Soviets argue that since the
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| U.S.S.R. is a workers' paradise only a madman could want free unions. And the
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| psychiatrists at the mental hospital closed the case in favor of the Kremlin by
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| finding that Vladimir Klabanov, a union organizer suffered from "a mania for struggling
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| for justice".
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| Going even further around the world our newly established friendhip for the Red
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| Chinese apparently hasn't caught on with everyone on the mainland. The greatest
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| exodus from China since the famine of 1962 is taking place. More than 30,000 Chinese
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| have managed to swim, or climb the fences to get into Hong Kong.
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| Now, on around the world we go and wind up back on the shores of the Potomac.
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| Congressman George O'Brien of Illinois says that the 1980 budget reveals that in the
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| battle against bureaucratic gobbledygook -- gobbledygook is winning.
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| The administration is seeking funds to help communities that are growing rapidly
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| because of energy development projects. Now that's pretty easy to understand. But
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| not when the budget writers translate it . Then it comes out like this -- "Inland,
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| Energy Impact Assistance Funds for the implementation of impact mitigation strategies
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| and for infrastructive improvements". Well, we may have to pay for that , but we sure
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| won't know what it is.
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| The administration also wants a CHAP, which it turns out is a "Child Health
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| Assistance Program'". Then there is an item called OJARS -- that's the Office of
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| Justice Assistance, Research and Statistics. But the administration wants to get
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| rid of something called HTGR. That's a high temperature gas-cooled nuclear reactor.
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| This is Ronald Reagan.
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| Thanks for listening.
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