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If Paul Revere did his midnight ride today he'd have to gallop through more
Even with the world divided into two camps -- the authoritarians and the free
than every Middlesex town and his warning would be, "The regulators are coming".
worlders -- we find that government, any government, has certain characteristics
common to all.


Another college has taken up arms to repel the regulators, joining Brigham Young
The U.S. Commerce department claims that one American out of eight is living
University and Hillsdale College who have already taken the federal Leviathan to
below the poverty line set up by our government. The percentage figure is 12.3.
court. A small liberal arts college in the hills of western Pennsylvania, Grove
Professor Morton Paglia of Portland State University, writing in Policy Review,
City College, has challenged H.E.W. on a matter of principle.
says that isn't true. What the professor really said was "this is nonsense". He
sets the figures at one out of 27 or only 3.6 percent. How does he explain this?
Very simple. If you count "in kind" benefits such as food stamps, medical care and
public housing as income -- which it is -- you come up with the professor's figure.
You'd think the Department of Commerce would be able to see that.


The Department of Health, Education and Welfare has sent or is sending to every
On the other side of the world the men in the Kremlin, Amnesty International
college and university in the land, a form to be filled out acknowledging (or perhaps
and the International Labor Organization (from which American labor withdrew because
proving is a better word) that they are in compliance with Title Nine of the Education
of the I.L.0. 's Communist tinge) are in a bit of a dispute. The Amnesty group charged
Amendments of 1972. Title Nine bans discrimination against women in hiring.
the Soviet Union with sending organizers of free labor unions off to mental hospitals.
Now let me hasten to say Grove City College is not practicing discrimination.
The International Labor group ignored the charge. The Soviets argue that since the
In fact the first judge hearing this case said, "there was not the slightest hint
U.S.S.R. is a workers' paradise only a madman could want free unions. And the
of any failure to comply with Title Nine save the refusal to submit an executed
psychiatrists at the mental hospital closed the case in favor of the Kremlin by
assurance of compliance. This refusal," he added; "is obviously a matter of
finding that Vladimir Klabanov, a union organizer suffered from "a mania for struggling
conscience and belief." The President of Grove City College has stated his belief
for justice".
in women's rights and that the college supported these rights as a matter of
conscience.


You see, Grove City College takes no federal funds whatsoever. It is fiercely
Going even further around the world our newly established friendhip for the Red
independent and feels that signing the H.E.W . form would be an acceptance of H.E.W.
Chinese apparently hasn't caught on with everyone on the mainland. The greatest
jurisdiction over a school that doesn't take a penny of government money.
exodus from China since the famine of 1962 is taking place. More than 30,000 Chinese
have managed to swim, or climb the fences to get into Hong Kong.


H.E.W. on the other hand has ruled that even though a college takes no federal
Now, on around the world we go and wind up back on the shores of the Potomac.
funds itself, if even one student is getting federal aid through a loan or the G.I.
Congressman George O'Brien of Illinois says that the 1980 budget reveals that in the
Bill, for example, the college or university is subject to H.E.W. regulations.
battle against bureaucratic gobbledygook -- gobbledygook is winning.


In 1974, Bob Jones University in South Carolina refused to sign a compliance
The administration is seeking funds to help communities that are growing rapidly
from under Title Six of the Civil Rights Act, the grounds being that the university
because of energy development projects. Now that's pretty easy to understand. But
took no federal funds. There were students there on the G.I. Bill so the government
not when the budget writers translate it . Then it comes out like this -- "Inland,
in retaliation stopped payments to those students. The government feels this
Energy Impact Assistance Funds for the implementation of impact mitigation strategies
established a precedent which will help it in the Grove City College case. The
and for infrastructive improvements". Well, we may have to pay for that , but we sure
college and four of its students on the other hand have filed a complaint against
won't know what it is.
H.E.W. alleging that the government has exceeded its constitutional authority.


Once again a David has taken up his sling against Goliath and all of us should
The administration also wants a CHAP, which it turns out is a "Child Health
be on the side of David if we value our freedom . Here is a plain ca se of law being
Assistance Program'". Then there is an item called OJARS -- that's the Office of
created by a government agency instead of by the Congress. Aid given to a student
Justice Assistance, Research and Statistics. But the administration wants to get
is a matter between that individual and the agency granting the aid. It should
rid of something called HTGR. That's a high temperature gas-cooled nuclear reactor.  
not confer upon the agency power to regulate the school chosen by the student any
more than a bank could impose on a college because it had loaned money to a student.
 
President John D. Phillips of the National Association of Independent Colleges
and Universities has correctly called this case, "a lightning rod to raise the
general question of the limits of federal control."


This is Ronald Reagan.
This is Ronald Reagan.

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Even with the world divided into two camps -- the authoritarians and the free worlders -- we find that government, any government, has certain characteristics common to all.

The U.S. Commerce department claims that one American out of eight is living below the poverty line set up by our government. The percentage figure is 12.3. Professor Morton Paglia of Portland State University, writing in Policy Review, says that isn't true. What the professor really said was "this is nonsense". He sets the figures at one out of 27 or only 3.6 percent. How does he explain this? Very simple. If you count "in kind" benefits such as food stamps, medical care and public housing as income -- which it is -- you come up with the professor's figure. You'd think the Department of Commerce would be able to see that.

On the other side of the world the men in the Kremlin, Amnesty International and the International Labor Organization (from which American labor withdrew because of the I.L.0. 's Communist tinge) are in a bit of a dispute. The Amnesty group charged the Soviet Union with sending organizers of free labor unions off to mental hospitals. The International Labor group ignored the charge. The Soviets argue that since the U.S.S.R. is a workers' paradise only a madman could want free unions. And the psychiatrists at the mental hospital closed the case in favor of the Kremlin by finding that Vladimir Klabanov, a union organizer suffered from "a mania for struggling for justice".

Going even further around the world our newly established friendhip for the Red Chinese apparently hasn't caught on with everyone on the mainland. The greatest exodus from China since the famine of 1962 is taking place. More than 30,000 Chinese have managed to swim, or climb the fences to get into Hong Kong.

Now, on around the world we go and wind up back on the shores of the Potomac. Congressman George O'Brien of Illinois says that the 1980 budget reveals that in the battle against bureaucratic gobbledygook -- gobbledygook is winning.

The administration is seeking funds to help communities that are growing rapidly because of energy development projects. Now that's pretty easy to understand. But not when the budget writers translate it . Then it comes out like this -- "Inland, Energy Impact Assistance Funds for the implementation of impact mitigation strategies and for infrastructive improvements". Well, we may have to pay for that , but we sure won't know what it is.

The administration also wants a CHAP, which it turns out is a "Child Health Assistance Program'". Then there is an item called OJARS -- that's the Office of Justice Assistance, Research and Statistics. But the administration wants to get rid of something called HTGR. That's a high temperature gas-cooled nuclear reactor.

This is Ronald Reagan.

Thanks for listening.

 

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