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The original documents are located in Box D13, folder "House Speech Government Costs,
August 21, 1950" of the Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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Digitized from Box D13 of The Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
12 and speeks House
MR. FORD OF MICHIGAN
MR. SPEAKER, every day we in the United States hear state-
ments in reference to the cost of maintaining our various branches of
government, local, state and federal. No one can deny that our citizens
bear a heavy burden, yet comparative figures indicate that the cost of
government in America is relatively low in comparison with the burden
of other people throughout the world.
As part of my remarks I include part of a column entitled
"Observatorials" from the Coopersville Observer of August 17, 1950.
The publisher of the Observer, Mr. L. W. Shears, runs an excellent
weekly newspaper in the 5th Congressional District of Michigan and he
is to be commended for publishing such important facts as those con-
tained in the following.
FORD s LIBRARY GERALD