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WHERE OUR NATION STANDS AT HOME AND ABROAD
WHERE OUR NATION STANDS AT HOME AND ABROAD
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And we commend those who joined Republicans in saving the
A pound of cheese has gone up 34 percent.
federally impacted school fund program. This has been a 25-year
program, originally provided under the Lanham Act passed during
Are these the marks of a Great Society?
World War II.
Fresh fruit and vegetables have gone up an average of 32 percent.
And we commend those who joined Republicans in saving the loan
Potatoes alone are up 37 percent.
program for medical students, nurses, and other medical personnel, as
Onions are up 60 percent.
well as some funds under the National Defense Education Act.
Apples are up 72 percent.
Cabbage is up 60 percent.
And we commend those who joined Republicans in fighting the
Eggs are up 11 percent.
administration's betrayal of farmers in trying to withhold Farm
Grape jelly is up 16 percent.
Home Administration contingency funds. The same situation pre-
Semiprivate hospital rooms are up 60 percent.
vailed on research programs by Agricultural Experiment Stations.
Are these prices the fruits of a Great Society?
It is reminiscent of how the administration early in the 1st session
A cartoon recently depicted the cost of living jump as a Great
of the 89th Congress attempted to haphazardly close VA hospitals.
Society supermarket. Lamb prices were up $1,700 a ton. Bacon
These are but a few of the curious specimens of judgment, balance,
was up $1,100 a ton. Jelly was up $200 a ton. Off to one side of the
and principle which have come from the executive branch of the
counter, someone who looked like the President of the United States
Government.
was whispering to his associates: "Keep reminding them how we held
This truth is shown: "The Government's house is not in order.'
the steel increase to $2.50 a ton.'
The following editorial from The Wall Street Journal of October 12,
VI
1966, entitled "Think Cheap" adequately describes the cost of living
and the administration approach to inflation.
"Hooray for What?" as I recall, was once a play in which Ed Wynn
starred.
Think Cheap
Every housewife in the land can signal a "Hooray for what?"
If there were any doubts that Washington considers the average consumer to
toward the Democratic administration each time she goes to the
be pretty dumb, they should be dispelled by the appearance of a six-page pam-
store today.
phlet, Shopping Sense.
The price of cornflakes soars again. One housewife is planning to
Shopping Sense is designed, according to Mrs. Esther Peterson, Chairman of the
President's Committee on Consumer Interests, "to help consumers get the most
buy two packages as soon as she can find a cosigner.
for their food dollars at this time when there are rising prices.'
But it is no laughing matter. Since the end of the Republican
Agreed that consumers, in these days of Government-generated inflation, need
administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower, and based on the latest
all the help they can get. What they may get from Shopping Sense, however, is
(August) figures of the Consumer Price Index, your grocery dollar has
about as many chuckles as might be inspired by a typical episode of "Batman.'
Shopping Sense advises the homemaker, for instance, to leave husband and
dropped to 84 cents today. By now everyone knows, or should know,
children at home when they shop for food; husband and child'ren are distracting
the farmer isn't to blame and is actually worse off than a year ago.
influences. Zowie.
It says that certain convenience foods-such as TV dinners and stuffed baked
Your rent dollar is now worth 89 cents.
potatoes-cost more than their equivalent in fresh food items. Bam.
Your medical care dollar is now worth 72 cents.
The housewife should take along a shopping list, it says, but should be open-
Your transportation dollar is now worth 86 cents.
minded if she sees an unadvertised bargain. Pow.
Your homebuilding dollar is now worth 84 cents.
Use substitutes, urges Shopping Sense. For, says Mrs. Peterson, housewives
"need to get off the old meat and potatoes routine. Zonk.
Your apparel dollar is now worth 91 cents.
Try lower-priced brands and grades, the pamphlet urges. Whammo.
In
Your auto insurance dollar is now worth 62 cents.
other words, ladies, think cheap.
Are those the marks of a Great Society?
Shopping Sense was prepared by the committee in cooperation with the Na-
tional Association of Food Chains which will make available at cost several million
And here's a sampling of the average changes reflected today in
copies to supermarkets where shoppers can pick them up. Plainly, then, the
some prices across the Nation after the Eisenhower administration left
cost of producing Shopping Sense in the end will be added to the housewife's
food bill. Socko.
office and the Democratic administration took over:
The authors of this message on thinking cheap are aiming it at the wrong
A loaf of bread costs 25 percent more today.
audience. After all, it isn't the housewife who has been making prices rise.
A pound of hamburger has gone up 15 percent.
VII
A pound of bacon has gone up 40 percent.
A quart of milk has gone up 12 percent.
The Johnson administration has a remarkable collection of hum-
An average package of cornflakes has gone up 24 percent.
mingbird economists who can reverse themselves without first stop-
A pound of pork chops has gone up 25 percent.
ping. They stand still in midair while making motions in an attempt
A pound of fish has gone up 24 percent.
to convince everyone the Government can spend for vast new domestic
programs while at the same time supporting a war costing $25 billion
S. Doc. 116, 89-2
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