European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 19, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 the stars and stripes sex thursday june 19, 1980 James j. Kilpatr1ck a Youju commie a sch of regulate grows by leaps and Bounds John Roche a time ago John Randolph of in Inoc used to Iveigh against the itch in legislate thai afflicted the Congress if the Greal virginian were around today he would be ii sighing against the Ilch to regulate if of flicks the whole of our government. Two current publications provide dismay nil evidence of the growth a Federal regulatory activity. In is a trend ill which eve Cru no is familiar but when the facts Are gathered together in one place the figures pack a Wallop. One report comes from the c a Nice for the study of american business Al Washington i diversity in is. Louis. The other comes from the american Enterprise Institute in Washington. They make the same Point contrary to inc Hopes and promises of inc c Artur . Regulatory activity is not declining. The flood roars on. In its new directory of Federal a Gulalo by agencies the Center for the study of american business takes a dispassionate look Al 57 major agencies. They have grown like crabgrass. Twenty one of them were established 1970 and 1979 thai is More than twice As Many As in any previous decade. The 1970s also stand unsurpassed in the enactment of major legislative controls Over business More than 120 major re Gullory Laws were passed in that period. The costs of regulation keep rising. The next fiscal year will Sec nearly s7 billion spent by the 57 agencies an increase i f 15 percent Over current Levels. Some of the War of ideas often can mean death there is a curious Alliance be tween the american left and right to con Vert our struggle Wilh the soviet Empire into a War of right wingers talk about the evils of marxist leninism in destroying capitalism individualism and the ideals of Adam Smith. On inc left their Litany runs that armaments arc useless in fighting ideas thai we Musl put aside our psychotic fear of the destruction of free Enterprise and launch our ideological offensive. Bold views arc whole out of focus. First of All. Anyone who described the american economic system As classic capitalism would set Adam Smith. David Ricardo and inc other founding fathers of free Enterprise spinning in their Graves. If you Don i believe me. Ask the president of Chrysler Corpora lion. While the american economic system clearly offers individuals a wide Range of economic options in is a weird collection of historical improvisations. The key to our system however remains Freedom within stipulated and in most in stances reasonable limits. Human Liberty is inc engine Hal makes everything else move. This is Why one of this year s favorite themes at trendy commencements but ice not guns is inane. A. Moment s re Flection will make it Crystal Clear that Mak ing inc world Safe for Liberty is a precondition for making the United slates Safe for food Stamps Low income housing and medicare. on the other hand is licensed gangsterism. Lenin was one of the Century s most talented opportunists and boasted of in. His goal was absolute Power and he was prepared to employ any Means to achieve it. If one of his tactics ran afoul of classical marxist theory he left Trotsky to work out the justification and went merrily on his Way. Lenin s Central doctrinal message was follow me Stalin was a worthy successor a Power driven cynic. Naturally he wanted intellectual credentials so he dabbled in theory deciding for example Hal astrophysicists who believed in an expanding universe were progressive Carlds of socialism. Those dec Adcul pessimists who urged a contracting universe in animal farm and Svitlana Stalin s daughter added chapter and verse. A classic gulag Story from the 1930s conveys the role of ideas in marxist Lacni column Sand comments ism. Three men Mcl in a Camp and got talking. Why arc you here1.1" one asked. The first said i was sentenced to conspiring against Bukharin and inc other old bolsheviks the second. I was Scien cd for conspiring Wilh Bukharin against the other old bolsheviks the third coughed dryly and observed i m Khrushchev and then Brezhnev were Apt pupils of Stalin the proof of which is they survived. Under their direction inc soviets Sci out to destroy inc Power of free societies. They arc not Anli capitalist in any personal sense those who have visited Brezhnev s Dachau Sav icy make Camp David look like a boy Seoul Camp. No. Icy simply employ anti capitalism As an effective propaganda instrument among the poor of inc world to obtain Power. To put it another Way marxist leninism in the third world is simply defined As our clip nos in True there arc certain rituals Banks and businesses arc Nali Onali cd wicked exploiters arc shot and Large icons of Marx Engels. Lenin and Brezhnev arc Hung. The result of this liberation can be seen in the present cuban exodus Cuba which in 1958 had one of inc highest standards of living in latin America is now a outdoor slum. Castro s rent a crowd specialists could turn out a million to denounce the emigres but at the same Lime inc cuban experts who had gone to Angola to modernize the sugar Industry were fired and replaced by East germans indeed if we were engaged in a War of ideas Wilh marxist leninism we d have won half a Century ago. The problem is we arc us War Wilh an International mafia Hal is extremely Well armed. They arc not drop Ping copies of Lenin s state and revolution on the co tribesmen in i nos hey arc dropping nerve Gas. They arc pulling land mines nol copies of inc communist manifesto under afghan trails. A first slip. Then is formulating an appropriate american response is to realize we of the dam Coralic world arc nol Ircul a cd by a set of archaic. Victorian dogmas but by men with guns who want Power and probably could t distinguish Karl Marx from Groucho. No afghans have been killed by Absler actions. C King of Valuri Syndicate agencies staffs have levelled off but Overall the growth has merely slowed no slopped. Lit 1 970. Federal Rogu Salors numbered 27.66 1. In i98i. Inc budget Calls for 90.825 employees. Agencies come in sics Small medium ind Large. The Cost accounting standards Hoard has Only 20 employees and the coun cil on environmental of Alliy Only 32. But the food safety and Quality service in the department of agriculture will have 1 1.789 workers next year and the environmental Protection Agency will have 1 1. 226. More than 50 years ago. Thomas Jeffer son remarked that we have More Machin Ery of government than is necessary too Many parasites living on inc labor of he Jefferson did t know the half of in. Since 1 970. The equal employment Opportunity commission has expanded from 780 employees and a budget of si2 million to 3.891 employees and a budget of is 35 million. The food and Eftig administration had roughly 4.150 workers in 1970 in has roughly 7.650 today. Federal regulation now pervades virtually every phase at human existence. The Amer ican Enterprise Institute s compilation of major regulatory initiative during 1979 be gins with rate regulation on International air service and winds up Wilh regulations on rights of Access for inc handicapped. Last year at random saw regulations dealing with Lawn mowers hair dryers Ca ble television and the financing of political nominating conventions. Our government As into natural Gas. Children s advertising. Generic drugs Home appliances and Adver Tising by physicians. Some compulsion was fell to regulate school lunches food labels and the profit margins of gasoline retailers. A Modem ago i was quoting Randolph and Jefferson. Let me quote an que Hority closer to our own Lime a gentleman who delivered his warning in a radio address on March 2, 1930 if we do not Hall this steady process of building commissions and regulatory bodies and special legislation like huge inverted pyramids Over everyone of the simple constitutional provisions we shall soon be spending billions of dollars that was Franklin d. Roosevelt who came to office in 1933 and set his hand at once to building the colossal bureaucracy known As he new Deal. For inc past 50 years statesmen of High and Low degree have voiced identical warnings. Heaven knows Jimmy Carter voiced them. These Days we arc hearing incessant pledges in Congress Ihal re Gullory Reform is about to be achieved. Such promises ought to be embraced Wilh the pessimism they deserve
