END THE DOLE TO POLITICIANS!
Oneal, James
END THE DOLE TO POLITICIANS! Old Party Parasites Take Billions From Public Funds While the Unemployed Workers Are Denied Relief BY JAMES ONEAL TN all the discussion regarding relief for...
...This pacing out of booty to parasites has alarmed even many who occupy office by the grace of capitalist politics...
...Like the old nobility of France fleeing before the enraged massles of Paris In the French Rev* olutlon, these parasites, now supping In their thieves* dens while the job!est starve, will lie driven out by determined workers and their loot Hill ke paed for social and humane purposes...
...It is a degraded commerce in public offices...
...They compelled the union of the two counties into one and abolished no less than 31'offices and salaries, together with rents and other useless expenses...
...The National Association of State Auditors, Controllers and Treasurers, meeting in New York Cky late in 1930, gave some consideration to this problem...
...However, there is no general recognition of the fact that capitalist politics is responsible for it The Vermin Multiplies In all the states the working farmers are feeding swarms of these party cooties who find soft berths in the county governments...
...In the days of poor roads and before the building of railroads the numerous county governments were necessary...
...If the proportionate cost jrf a capitalist enterprise increased with its expansion k would become bankrupt...
...Today with the automobile they are unnecessary...
...4-ecturing at Columbia University in 1909, Henry lines Ford showed that the increase in the costs of the federal Government since its origin exceeded the increase in population...
...Old Party Parasites Take Billions From Public Funds While the Unemployed Workers Are Denied Relief BY JAMES ONEAL TN all the discussion regarding relief for the working |H class, one phase of capitalist polities has not been considered...
...The president declared that at least 40 cents of every tax dollar collected in the United States is wasted and that the governments are overmanned by 25 per cent I This two-party nursing of Republican and Democratic parasites brought threats of tax strikes in recent years...
...One speaker over the radio recently compared the state-kept vermin to the old nobility of France and England whose gouging brought revolutions to both countries...
...Federal Costs Co Rocketing mg...
...The explanation is largely ,' jhe to the fact that the capitalist parties create useless Jablic jobs for their brokers...
...It represents a per capita cost of $107.37, as compared with $105.20 in the preceding year...
...Mew York City is one example...
...That organization estimated that the combined expendi-tines, federal, state, and local, for the fiscal year ended in 1929, as computed by its statisticians, amounted to $13,048,000,000...
...In January, 1931, it was estimated that • He twenty-year period beginning in 1911 the Fed-increased five fold although the man-power Hi nation had increased only a third and the so-¦W national wealth had doubled...
...Having parted with the values they have produced in their respective industries they arejhen pounced upon by the party vermin hatched and nourished by capitalist politics...
...The vermin consists of fat politicians who hold useless public jobs, i All sorts of parasite jobs have been treated...
...Get rid of the parasites lad this will release large sums for relief of farmers and workers...
...Every other city supports them...
...The increase of ordinary expenses, excluding interest on the public debt but includ-tog pensions and cost of public works, from 1878 to 1906 was nearly 400 per cent while population increased less than 84 per cent...
...The Generous Poor This increase is abnormal...
...In other words, governmental expenditures grew more than twice as fast as "national income" and more than three times aj fast as the population...
...In all the states there is a large swarm of these county cooties who arc about as useful as the city cooties that have l»cen spawned by capitalist politics...
...Wherever Socialist power is obtained it will have to' undertake the rooting out of the cooties...
...From two to five of the average' counties can be consolidated into one, eliminating hundreds of cooties in each of these consolidations and releasing funds that would be available for social services of benefit to farmers and workers...
...There are vast funds now available which are used to support parasites...
...Into their pockets flow hundreds of millions of dollars annually which if available today would go far towards financing old age pensions, crop insurance, and unemployment relief...
...They hold useless jobs and are paid put of public funds to serve the parties of capitalism...
...Wheeler McMillen in his book, "Too Many Farmers," gives some attention to this cootieiim...
...40c on Dollar Wasted In 16 years, from 1913 to 1929, the cost of all governments in the United States increased 347 per cent while, in the same period, the "national income" increased 148 per cent and the population only 25.9 per cent...
...Out of 1,100 voters who voted to consolidate only 70 opposed it and most of these were office-holders end their relatives or those who hoped to become officeholders...
...In Georgia the cooties do not even attempt to conceal their itching palms...
...Tints the soft berths ol the cooties in the city, county, state, and Federal governments are to them something like investment swindles in oil and other bogus enterprises...
...The "crease in thirteen years was 342 per cent...
...Drive the Parasites Out I If the working farmers and the workers of the cities are robbed by an exploiting class of owners of the means of production, distribution and transportation, the gouging does not end there...
...Everywhere the farmers ere afflkxed with bug parasites that eat their crops but here is a parasite that is left untouched by the spraying of poison in their fields...
...A Socialist triumph in any of these divisions of government will have to take this cootieiim into account...
...This was an increase of 3.5 per cent, or $439,000,-000, over the preceding year...
...This seems almost incredible but it is the estimate contained in an inspired dispatch from Washington...
...Kthe increase been no greater than the increase ¦•emulation the budget in 1931 would have been B>» WUwn instead of four billion dollars...
...rising cost of the Federal Government tells the Itory...
...All authorities on this question agree that more poli-*WWs give full time to their machines in this country tfcaa in all other nations combined 1 Here is an army *f occupation fed by the masses in general, the same *<uses who now face starvation throughout the counfl» per capita cost of the state governments has "Weased from $4.19 in 1917 to $11.40 in 1930...
...In the struggle to accomplish this the lines were drawn between a handful of cooties and the masses...
...Local politicians, desiring office and power, fostered legislation to create new counties in which they hoped to hold office...
...A Revolt in Tennessee In Tennessee the masses in two counties made a raid on the party cooties and exterminated some of them...
...It swarms with rats fed from the public funds...
...He writes that in Georgia there is a mania for "subdividing counties to create new ones" and the state now has three times more counties than ere necessary...
...The latest general survey of this phase of capitalist politics and government was reported by the National Industrial Conference Board, Inc., in March, 1932...
Vol. 13 • June 1932 • No. 24
