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...Inner s t r e n g t h , and political strength as well, can in such conditions only derive from a belief in God...

...For instance, Senators Orrin Hatch and William Armstrong on the Senate Budget Committee, who, armed with Lambro's 250 pages spelling out "100 Nonessential Federal Programs," will now be able to conduct a year-long filibuster the next time their colleagues ask the pious question, "But where, Senator, would you cut...

...Here they were in the same room with a real capitalist minotaur who wanted to push the poor off welfare...

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...but here too the divergence between Mihajlov and Soizhenitsyn e n d s - - a s well it might...

...It was surely a moment of terror for them...

...Lambro found nearly 14,000 audit reports "gathering dust on government shelves, even though they document the loss of $4.3 billion annually in unauthorized use of federal funds...

...Congress turns a blind eye because it is too busy pushing the agencies to " g e t out the f u n d s . " Moreover, since many of the progra/ns are vote-buying frauds from FAT CITY Donald Lambro Regnery/Gateway / $12.95 Paul Craig Roberts Donald Lambro, a Washington correspondent for UPI, is an unusual journalist...

...That lets you stay on the payroll without being counted...

...And each has testified against the evils of the country he loved: Solzhenitsyn by recreating totalitarianism brick by brick, Mihajlov by weaving the experiences of life under totalitarian domination into a compelling moral and political vision...

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...Lambro, contains $100 billion a year in waste, fraud, and mismanagement (that's an amount equal to the entire f e d e r a l budget of John Kennedy's second year in office) and from all appearances it is not only going to continue but it is going to get worse...

...They are protected--in the name of the poor and the disadvantaged--by the iron triangle: the special interests that feed off them, the bureaucrats who administer them, and the congressional subcommittees and cornmittees whose members would lose power and prestige should their handout abilities be curtailed through the demise of programs...

...If that sounds too serious, you can, instead, live a life of laughter by signing on with the National Institute on Drug Abuse, in the lnstitute's experiment determining the levels of male sexual arousal caused by exposure to marijuana and pornography...

...For we should remember that, in choosing to speak the truth in a part of the world inimicable to it, both men risked their lives for the highest moral principles...

...But the terror is not always on one side...

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...Here then, in the idea of a transcendent, spiritual "inner truth," Mihajlov's political order finds its moral foundation...

...Their eyes widened as they stared at the bogeyman in front of them...

...Long a leading critic of Keynesi~nism, Professor Hutt first attempted to prepare a second edition of his 1963 book, Keynesianism---Retrospect and Prospect, but ended up with a new book...

...No agency head or program officer wants to admit that t h e r e is fraud under his jurisdiction, so even when bureaucrats do act on the audit reports, they tend to resolve discrepancies in favor of the g r a n t e e or contractor...

...You can go off-budget...

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...The Keynesian Episode looks back to tell us why Lord Keynes' economic doctrines had such great appeal among academics and politicians--with such disastrous r e s u l t s - - and looks ahead to tell us how to restore a sound economy...

...And the universities where they teach, firmly established now in the business of discovering social problems and devising their remedies, spew out millions of graduates inculcated with a distaste for any budget cuts, except those affecting defense and nuclear energy, of course...

...In that sense at least, whatever their differences concerning the proper arrangements of the " e x t e r n a l w o r l d , " they_ stand on common ground...

...In the face of the liberal ethos controlling our government and media it sometimes takes an act of courage to recommend cutting the budget...

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...City itself---and it takes a fat book of 405 pages of facts and examples just to scratch the surface...

...General Accounting Office auditors regularly turn up billions of dollars of fraud and mismanagement, but their reports are usually ignored by program officials and higher-ups...

...Luckily, the Congress has its share of brave men...

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...He is presently Distinguished Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Dallas...

...Should your job ever be threatened by a cutback, you needn't despair...

...Born in 1899, W. H. Hutt graduated from the London School of Economics and based his academic career at the University of Cape Town...

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...It has an $8 billion annual travel budget, enough to carry you to exotic places where you can hold strategy sessions and plot how to influence Congress to stuff more bucks in your budget...

...but only religion, the conviction that before God all men are equal, can be the basis of a secular democracy...

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...Even programs of blatant fraud and waste are immune...

...Ideology shapes the external world, religion releases man's inner truth...

...I recently spoke to a select and privileged collection of such graduates (known as White House The Keynesian Episode By W. H. Hutt An unsparing reassessment of the dominant economic movement of our century...

...Mihajlov writes: The struggle taking place between man and the forces of evil and death is least of all a strictly political struggle . . . . [l]t is the Christians who are truly political, in the sense that it is they who undermine the very essence of totalitarian rule, i.e., the belief in the unlimited power of external circumstances [to] direct man's inner world...

...In that tangle, somewhere, you will come across those missing Weathermen teaching terrorism to the locals in a community service program...

...Never mind that lobbying the Congress with federal money is patently illegal, no one will ever notice...

...His expos~ of government waste focuses on Washington--Fat Paul Craig Roberts, a columnist for the Wall S t r e e t J o u r n a l , is Senior Fellow in Pohtical Economy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies at Georgetown University, THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR OCTOBER 1980 31 the beginning, the Congress can't get indignant about the fraud within the fraud...

...Liberal intellectuals--who have made a killing helping the poor--help the fraud along, of course, painting any proposed budget cut as taking bread from the mouths of the jobless and disabled...

...He doesn't buy the "public interest" myth that shields government from the critical perspective that journalists apply to the private sector...