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Public support for retaining the 55 mileperhour speed limit as a national law is at a new high, according to a September Gallup Poll. The 55 limit – a reduction from previous speeds – was imposed in 1974 primarily because of the energy shortage. Previous polls had pegged public support at 72-73 percent in 1974,… Continue reading Speed Limit Support High

It has to be the ”War to end wars” and to ”make the world safe for Democracy.” That’s what the doughboys of the American “Expeditionary Forces thought as they entered World War I in France in 1917 and helped turn the tide for the allies against the Germany-led central powers. The armistice of Nov. 11,… Continue reading Today, Take Time to Reflect

An anticipated small surplus in the fiscal 1981 federal budget appears to have melted to a prospective substantial deficit as the budget saga continues in Washington. This despite a law requiring a balanced budget effective in ’81. Originally, last January. President Carter submitted a proposed $615,8 billion budget with a $15.9 billion deficit. But last… Continue reading Budget Still Not Balanced Yet

National Newspaper Week which starts today provides a good opportunity to underline the public benefits of a free press. Theme for the observance, “Our Freedom Safeguards Your Freedom,” stresses an important truth. The symbol is a close-up, stylized head of the Statue of Liberty with a background symbolic of newspaper type and copy from the… Continue reading Our Freedom’s Your Freedom

The American motoring ublic is being taken for an xpensive ride by widening ofor vehicle theft. Sen. Charles H. Percy, -Ill. called vehicle theft ne of the nation’s “few owth industries” in a ongressional Record tatement. “During 1979 close to 1.1 illion vehicles were tolen,” Percy said, “with he theft rate increasing an larming 10.6… Continue reading Time for Car Theft Cruckdown

Groucho Marx once defined politics as “the art of looking for trouble. finding it everywhere diagnosing it incorrectly. and than applying the wrong remedies.” The definition sounds zany, but in a way it has ape plication in Washington? handling of certain phases of the economy. Inflation is a case in point. – Economists repeatedly say… Continue reading When D0 Budget Deficits End?

A Wall Street Journal eport has confirmed what nost people probably uspected: Taxes are our astest – rising costs and iiggest inflation item. at east for “high budget income” consumers. The publication quoted .abor Department figures ihowing the largest rise in costs nationally for the ieriod 1967 to 1979 came in iersonal income taxes l22.9… Continue reading Tuxes Fastest-Rising Expense

Productivity improvement is a weapon too often overlooked in the continuing fight against inflation that eats away wages and savings and weakens the economy. Rep. Elliott H. Levitas, D-Ga. had some pertinent things to say on the subject in Congress recently pertinent because U. S. productivity leadership has declined since World War Il and the… Continue reading U.S. Productivity Fcills Behind

The decision of the Democrat- controlled 96th Congress, now in recess, to hold so many major bills for a post-election (lameduck) session leaves voters with some questions to ponder, including: – Why delay until after the five-week election break such vital economic issues as final approval of the fiscal 1981 federal budget which under law… Continue reading Lame Ducks Owe Answers

Declining productivity is one of the spokes in the economic wheel that needs attention in America’s fight against inflation. The .S. Labor Department announcement says productivity slipped a disappointing 0.9 percent during 1979 – only the second tinie since 1947 that measure of the economy’s efficiency has declined over a full year. The last such… Continue reading Time to Look at Productivity