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will go on; government jobs will provide employment or food handouts will sustain these people. Consider that every loaf of bread given away to the needy, every dollar paid to someone on some make-work project, every bushel of corn or wheat sent overseas to help the famine-stricken of other countries, had to be paid for by someone. The farmers who grow the grain and the bakers who baked the bread not to speak of the packagers, the shippers, the distributors, etc., had to be paid, too. And who paid them? You did... or will. . . through your taxes. This will reduced the spendable income of a lot of still employed citizens who thereby having spent the money for taxes can't spend it for consumer goods and the companies who need their business to stay in operation in turn have to cut salaries and wages or lay people off which further increases the unemployed rolls and so on, and on and on . . .!? It's freightening, isn't it?

Now what happens when some of these unemployed get tired of not eating or partially eating on some sort of dole? Very simple, they go and take it! From where? For food they will wipe clean the shelves of Safeway, A and P, Grand Union (or whatever big chain you are ac- customed to in your area). When that sort of thing starts in a small way it will gain momentum in a period of three days to the point that stores will look like a field just swept clean by a cloud of locusts. Then what happens when you, the law abiding, employed, middle-class citizen goes to the store to shop for your kids and find nothing? Chances are that in a relatively short time you will do the same thing because you aren't going to sit quietly in the front room while the baby cries from hunger. ARE YOU? Would anybody? Think it over. Really look our times in the face. If it doesn't scare the holy hell out of you, you are either stupid or don't give a damn about yourself or your fami- ly. And even if you refuse to face those probabilities you can rest assured that there will be a lot of thousands of others who will and you will be caught up in the results.

Don't take refuge in the idea that the police can control the looting, or the National Guard or even the Army. When things get that bad there won't be enough of all three to do the job. But one more thing. Remember that the people making up these agencies are the sons and daughters of just ordinary citizens. When they see what is happening to relatives and friends will their sympathies and loyalties reside with the oaths and loyalties to the police, guard and army respectively or with the hungry people? Think that one over. Though you may not like the comparison it is very apt. When the Russians staged their revolution in 1917 the mobs stormed the Winter Palace in

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