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    "ocrText": "The original documents are located in Box D30, folder \"Michigan Republican Women's\nClub Dinner, Sparta, MI, September 29, 1970\" of the Ford Congressional Papers: Press\nSecretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.\nCopyright Notice\nThe copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of\nphotocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. The Council donated to the United\nStates of America his copyrights in all of his unpublished writings in National Archives collections.\nWorks prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public\ndomain. The copyrights to materials written by other individuals or organizations are presumed to\nremain with them. If you think any of the information displayed in the PDF is subject to a valid\ncopyright claim, please contact the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.\nDistribution\nDistrict\nnews\nmedia\n8/25/70\nonly\nOffice Copy\nCONGRESSMAN\nNEWS\nGERALD R. FORD\nHOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER\nRELEASE\n--FOR RELEASE AT 6:30 P.M.--\nTuesday, September 29, 1970\nExcerpts from a Speech by Rep. Gerald R. Ford, Republican Leader, U.S. House of\nRepresentatives, at a dinner sponsored by the Sparta, Mich., Republican Women's\nClub Tuesday evening, Sept. 29, 1970, at Sparta United Methodist Church.\nI come before you as a staunch supporter of economy in government. I\nmake no apologies for it. I am pledged to hold down government spending--to back\nup every effort by President Nixon to hold Federal spending in check.\nWhy is it particularly important to fight the big spenders in Congress\nat this time?\nIt is important because years of increasing government costs with an\nuncontrolled $25 billion in Federal red-ink spending in 1968 produced a nearly\nrunaway inflation in this country--inflation that hurt us all and hit farmers and\nold folks on fixed incomes the hardest.\nWe have got to stop spending more than we take in at the Federal level. If\nwe fail to keep government spending within revenues, the price for the American\npeople will be catastrophic in the end.\nThe big spenders in Congress cause inflation. Their over-spending pushes\nup the price of everything. And yet they pretend to be the friends of the people.\nTheir generosity with the taxpayers' dollars puts an ever-increasing burden on\ngenerations yet to come and requires an ever-increasing appropriation just to pay\nthe interest on the national debt. In fact, the interest we now pay on the national\ndebt is a major government expense--second only to spending for national defense.\nToday President Nixon and Republicans in Congress are locked in battle with\nthe big spenders. It's a fight to control inflation. You know whose side I'm on.\nHelp me and the President fight the big spenders, the radical liberals who vote\nfor every spending bill they can trot out.\nNow let me tell you that we have turned the corner on inflation in spite of\nthe big spenders. We are making progress against inflation, and at the same time\nthe economy is in the early stages of an upswing.\nIf there is any segment of the economy which deserves greater rewards in\nterms of performance it is agriculture.\nEveryone will agree that one of the basic defects in the economy today is a\nfailure to achieve substantial gains in industrial productivity in recent years,\n(more)\nGERAL\nDigitized from Box D30 of The Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library\n-2-\nBy contrast, the American farmer's record of productivity is nothing short of\nfabulous, and it continues on the increase.\nProductivity has risen faster in agriculture than in any other sector of\nthe economy. In the past two decades alone, farm output per manhour has almost\nquadrupled, while nonfarm productivity has just about doubled.\nLast year, despite a sharp rise in production costs, farm operators posted\nan 8 per cent increase in realized net income. Total net farm income was\n$16 billion, based on substantial gains in both marketing receipts and government\npayments. I hope the new farm bill will be a plus.\nHow can the farmer do better? One way is to make himself more friends in\nCongress. Another way is to work for the election of a Responsible Congress.\nWe are making progress under the Nixon Administration on the problems of\nthe farmer and the problems of all the people.\nWe are moving toward peace in Vietnam despite the tactics of the congres-\nsional sellout crowd. Vietnamization is ahead of schedule, and we will end our\nfront-line ground combat role in South Vietnam by next May.\nThe situation in the Middle East is tenuous, but at least the Nixon\nAdministration has produced a cease-fire there. Administration initiative in\nthe Middle East has averted a possible confrontation there with the Soviet Union.\nWe are making progress in fighting crime, too--no thanks to the weak-kneed\nradical-liberals in the Congress.\nThe Administration has struck strong blows against organized crime, staging\nmassive raids on narcotics traffickers and producing shock waves felt throughout\nthe underworld.\nThe Administration has also sent 13 major anti-crime bills to the Congress.\nI predict that most of these bills will be written into law by the end of this\nsession despite heel-dragging by those overly concerned with the rights of the\ncriminal.\nPresident Nixon badly needs more support if he is going to turn America\naround. He needs the help of sound-thinking people like the women here assembled.\nGive him your help. Give me your help. Add to the strength of responsible\ngovernment in America.\n# # #"
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