1984_11 The Daily Collegian November 1984

              2-The Daily Collegian
Editorial
November 2, 1984
Social Darwinism
sounds death toll
for welfare system
The Reagan Administration reports that this country's
economic turnaround has benefited all people, including the
poor. That statement is false. The poor in this nation are not
better off than they were four years ago.
The national poverty rate remained at its highest level in
eighteen years last year, at 15.2 percent. Coupled with the
current Fresno County poverty rate of 25 percent, the
situation grows even more disturbing. The current population
estimate for Fresno County is 532,000, of which 133,000 are
below the poverty level, according to the county Department
of Social Services.
While on the subject of false notions, most people seem to
believe that the bulk of social welfare spending occurs on such
programs as Aid to Families with Dependent Children and
food stamps. That isn't true. According to the August 1983
Social Security Bulletin, less than 4.8 percent of all federal,
state and local social welfare expenditures combined are
composed of these programs. This is hardly the bulk of social
welfare expenditures as the public would be led to believe, and
it is hardly enough to have caused the federal deficit.
Federal cuts of S10 billion a year since 1981 in health,
nutrition, education, child care and family support programs
have endangered the lives, health and futures of millions of
people many of whom are children and the elderly.
Society has a responsibility to care for its people, but as long
as the politics of self-interest and social darwinism persist, and
as long as the gap between the rich and poor continues to
sharpen, this country as a whole will continue to suffer as
well. Only some will suffer more than others. Alot more.
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Better off?
re we stronger? Safer? Mot
Pentagon's budget.
Do we have more friends than we did
before? No. The Majority of the people in
Europe still resent u placing more-
nuclear missiles in their countries. People
in Central America are being murdered by
the thousands of U.S.-backed radicals for
no oihcr reason than to save them from
their own political beliefs The U.S. is still
in Grenada. (Does il take that long to
rescue a couple hundred students?) And
finally, relations with the Soviet Union
are at their lowest in decades. The US
has lost more respect in the world com-
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We are far less secure lhan we were four
years ago, despite the fact that defense
spending is at an all-time high and is
increasing at an alarming rale  Why?
The same people who scream "Welfare
State!" whenever social programs are con¬
sidered are the very ones who advocate a
"Welfare Economy" in which they award
huge sums of money to their friends in the
military industrial complex, running up
record deficits. Missies are being built lhal
can NEVER be launched. (Reagan wants
to build 17.000 more at a cost of 450 bil¬
lion dollars.) 90 percent of Reagan's deficit
is increased military spending.
You don't make friends ai the end of a
gun. Poverty is the real problem in Cen¬
tral America, not "Communism." Diplo¬
macy  is  needed  in  Europe,  not  more
Once again the Republicans are relying
on the public's ignorance to slay in office
and keep their greedy hands in the U.S.
treasury. They call Democrats "Liberals"
for trying to help Ihe poor, and instead
run up record deficits by wasting money
on military garbage to keep their rich
friends in business. They capitalize on the
American's fear of "Communism" lo in¬
vade Third World countries and open them'
up for U.S. investment. Their rallies are
not unlike Bulldog basketball games, with
everyone shouting "We're number one!"
with no one slopping to think what hap¬
pens when Nationalism infects a popula¬
tion. (Remember Hitler?)
They endorse racist and cruel legisla¬
tion, like propositions 38 and 41. and
Simpson-Mazzoli and count on misin¬
formation to pass them. Racism and
nationalism are infantile diseases and the
Republican party is sick.
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Social security
Editor:
Social Security reform can only be
achieved by making it a campaign Issue
prior to the November elections. As of
Oct. 15, I have mailed more than 1580
letters about the subject to influential
publications and individuals in America.
Save Social Security now!
The Social Security program as pre¬
sently structured is a blatantly illegal
pyramid scheme. In a pyramid scheme,
the first people in are all winners and the
last people that participate will always
lose whatever they put in.
Exactly ihe same thing is happening in
the Social Security program because
unfunded obligations for an ever-increas¬
ing group of Social Security recipients are
being financed by a group containing a
fewer number of new workers. The result
is that contributions made by both em¬
ployers and employes are increasing at an
exponential rale that cannot be sustained
which spells disaster for it.
As an example, the projected yearly
contribution into Social Security by a
non-self-employed individual earning in
excess of the laxable maximum will be
512,500 in the year 2000 and $36,000 in
2010. If you are very curious, the pro¬
jected individual contribution in 2030 will
be a maximum of S290.0O0. For the small
businessmen, farmers and ranchers the
taxes are even more staggering.
Became self-destruction of the existing
Social Security program is assured, the
program must be quickly transformed
into a savings program similar to the
Individual Retirement Account (IRA).
An individual must receive an 'income
tax credit equal to his or her Social
Security contribution, provided that that
amount is actually invested in an IRA.
Likewise, the employer must also receive
an incometax credit if that amount it
invested in a defined-conlibution pension
plan for the employee. This will alleviate
the problems caused by the delay jn
vesting and lack of portability associated
with defined-payment pension plans.
Present Social Security recipient!
should have their payments taxed ai
ordinary income. Relief to low-income
retired people can be achieved by allowing
an additional income-tax exemption al
five-year age intervals. At the age of 70,
three exemptions are allowed.Tour at 75,
etc. Do you not call this having com¬
passion for the retired people?
This reform plan does not cut Social
Security benefits nor does it reduce
contributions. Instead, it will provide in
income tax credit to employes that volun¬
tarily contribute to an IRA savinp
account and to employers that contribute
to a pension plan for that employee. Whll
greater gift can we get from Uncle Sam
with dignity?
Robert A. Dahlquitt
Taxe3, not war
Editor
Of the two ideas least desirable, I
rather Mondale raise my taxes than Re*-
gan send my brothers and I to fight his *V
in El Salvador. Even worse — having ow
bodies flown back in mummy bags; eti
for what true cause? For the sake of rij
Mondale.
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UFO's still a government mystery
The U.S. Government is engaged in a     UFO sightings from the miblic. Huiin.    nun.   u. „«..  .aai-l^ ...: ™. -.* +*
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UFO sightings from the public, Hastings
engaged
i cover-up designed to keep the
public ignorant of UFO sightings, said Two of those reports, one of which is
Robert Hastings, producer and director allegedly handwritten by J. Edgar
jf-A UFO Story." s* Hoover.suggestthatgovemmentofficials
Hastings was at the Satellite College have recovered foreign aliens from crash-
on Thursday. He spoke to about 170 ed UFOs.
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n the government's role in UFO
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According to once-secret government
documents, which Hastings presented to
tbe audience in a slide show, "green
fireballs** or flying saucers have been
detected hovering over nuclear weapon
deployment sites. Such sightings are not
I, said Hastings. A great number of
report to the government from
Marshall Chad well, former assistant direc¬
tor of science intelligence, it u reported
that UFOs are not attributable to"natural
phenomena"and call for "immediate atten-
UFOs, he said. Although the FBI dis¬
avows any knowledge of MIBs, said
Hastings, an agency in San Francisco
thinks these men are involved with the
government.  -—«»■.«, ..inc. rum ior uru
"A great many people are ready to treat    Research, P.O. Box 277. Mount Rainier
this subject seriously," said Hastings. MD 20712.
Hastings feels that the public has a right
to know what it is doing in the area of
For those interested in reviewinggovern-
documents, write: Fund for UFO
Correction
UFO sightings occur o
tr nuclear    has lost
The Daily Collegian incorrectly re¬
ported Thursday that a final decision had
been reached Wednesday evening con-
In many cases, said  Hastings, when    ccrning the distribution of basketball tick-
nterceptor aircraft have attempted to    eu for the fall *84 season. Th* final dacl-
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and military bases, he added,    aircraft turned around and headed the       The Daily Collegian also reported that
l reports and eye witnesses
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nernment reports were obtained by Witnesses who report UFO sightings,
) research organizations under the said   Hastings, are often  harrassed by
dom  of Information  Act.  These MIBs — Men in Black. Often, such men
rts chronicle the government involve- will drive up
,ii a program that keeps facts on business and
Student Senate Public Affairs. He is not.
He is a member of that body.
The Daily Collegian incorrectly spelled
the name of Fred Dickenson, a represen¬
tative for CSUF disabled studenls.
Also the elevator mentioned in the A.S
Senate story is located within the college
union and not near the Kennel Bookstore
as was reported.
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