European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 18, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Dont spare that tree january 1981 the stars and stripes William Buckley Page 15 lawmaker has xray Eye for cutting waste 1980 los Angeles times Syndicate congressman William Dannemeyer has attempted to single out economics which would not cause pain to those whose distress is undeniably a Public in an antecedent i gave the Broad out lines of his industrious approach to save billion from the current without cutting into Bony the commitment was in this i would particular when in tends simply to reduce existing budgets by 10 per that option is not entirely if you devote weeks and months to studying agencies of government and discover that 10 percent is the typical excess you can with some sense of statistical self Assur Ance recommend a 10 percent even if circumstances have no permitted you per Sonal but Dannemeyer plan is remarkable not for its but for its Specif to give contrasting figures he recommends proposed cuts that vary from Zero for the judiciary to 60 percent for funds appropriated to the it will Surprise All those who suppose him to be orthodox in All matters that touch on conservative priorities to find that he recommends a 4 percent Cut in military de More typical is his recommendation of a 13 percent Cut in Federal expenses on but Here arc examples from his 46page report on How to pare the budget by around an example is the asian development which he would trim by about 20 his comment laudable intentions cannot conceal the fact that we simply James Kilpatrick our Public servants deserve More pay americans Are the most generous people on Earth up to a we take in All the stray cats of the give us an abandoned a crippled child or a dying and the Cornucopia shirt off our that but there is one Point at which our benevolent instincts abruptly it is the Point at which we pay our Public and More especially our elected Public serv at that the dark Side of our National character we become w jealous and increase their pay not another dime these you will correctly sur Are prompted by the report from the Federal commission on legislative and judicial the commis Sion is composed of nine fairly taxpaying unanimous they have urged substantial increases in compensation at the highest Levels of our National they make a most convincing Why should we raise the pay of super rats i and Federal judges the arguments Are the first has to do with simple the second with our own self inter for the time at we can put the judges to one their salary prob lems have been remedied by the recent Deci Sion of the supreme court mandating an across Leboard pay increase in their several District judges had brought an unprecedented suit to interpret and enforce the constitutional provision which decrees that judges shall receive for their services a compensation which shall not be diminished during their continuance in of the complaining jurists argued Plau Sibly that the effect of double digit inflation has indeed been to diminish their compel the supreme court and or dered equitable so much for the the 96th Congress might have acted As forthrightly on legislative and executive Sal but on this Issue our lawmakers Are variously gutless thin skinned masters and shrewd apostles of self Reser during the recent Lam Duck ses senators killed a House Bill to raise the pay of members they feared the typical voter might these same senators were unwilling to see a Mere bureaucrat paid at the above the senatorial they apprehended that if they raised their pay to some Guys would run for their perhaps the 97th Reading the commission will put principle ahead of this Doest happen often in but it happens now and at the very members of the House and Senate might agree to raise executive salaries even if they hold the line on their this is the by no executive can be paid More than the now paid to a member of this is the fixed ceiling for the roughly 800 officials in executive Levels i through v the men and women who actually run the govern but the ceiling also operates to deny raises to another top the freight train effect prevents increases for others who Are just As a up to seven tiers of manage ment Are now being paid identical what this does to morale can easily be Over the past 11 top Federal Sala Ries have gone up by 43 in this same period the Cost of living has gone up by More than 130 salaries in the private sector have increased by about 116 if 1969 pay Scales were reasonably fair and they created no great stir at the time but salaries Are manifestly beyond the argument of equity is the argument of it makes no sense to put second raters and mediocrities in charge of a billion Federal but if we persist in paying mediocre that is what we will talented managers Are leaving government departments in it is stupid to let this the commission recommends that senators and congressmen be paid a plus a annual expense allow considering All the perquisites the members this sounds a mite but i  top executives would receive to Fine with if the recommendations were adopted in they  increase the Federal payroll by on half of one Only a Scrooge could c Universal press cant afford to be Overly generous abroad so Long As there is economic trouble at Home All merely allow percent increase above 1980 respecting International and programs and the huge sum Given Over As funds appropriated to the presi his recommendation is for a 60 per cent comment eliminate funding for the development to offset the ant peace Atti the congressman has a Sharp Eye for Fis Cal Institute for scientific and technological cooperation deter this pro Gram 21 million Bucks until it can be determined what technological cooperation is the congressman can be very specific foreign agricultural service would trim a Mere 2 the agriculture department Doest re quire separate offices in Moscow and other Distant but rather could function As an adjunct of embassy he is forthright respecting economically and culturally defensible commodity credit corporation Price sup Dannemeyer recommends a reduction on the order of 95 percent eliminate subsidies to tobacco and Dairy ditto for Ocean shipping maritime eliminate subsidies for this which is prop Ping up an dying Industry with no immediate resuscitation in in the matter of he picks Here and for National guard hed Cut it less than 12 but that Means eliminate erroneous payments to Reserve go artists for drills not some defense programs he would eliminate 100 National Board of the promotion of Rifle practice eliminate this thoroughly unessential program and so it Page after with the indefatigable congressman and his xray i like most his recommendation under historical and memorial agencies a Mere but there Are a lot of american families that would appreciate the return of bits and pieces of in 25 the for memorial com Mission has done nothing regarding the construction of an appropriate memorial to the late president eliminate this which has Cost hundreds of thousands of dollars Over the the size of the Feder Al government is itself a fitting tribute to write to congressman William Danne House of washing say and ask for a copy of his c Universal press