What is the Political Situation in the US? Question: With everything that is presently going on in our country, how do you feel Stelle will be able to accomplish all the things it must do before the depression sets in? Answer: Regarding your comments about the happenings in Washington, D.C., I feel the attitudes and morals of all the citizenry are the causes of the difficulties that we have in this country, not the group of people who have been elected to try administering it. Bureaucrats and politicians usually get into difficulty of one sort or another because of their lack of knowledge of how to handle some of the tricky problems they must deal with. That’s as much as I would care to blame any given administration that happens to be elected. We the people are the cause of the economic difficulties that we face because we have decided that we don’t want to produce goods as efficiently as our foreign competitors. We have decided that we want to have nice things beyond our ability and willingness to pay for them. The economic result of that is foreseeable to the economist, yet the administration in Washington must try to keep things on an even keel. The population of the U. S. is working against certain economic principles which should have been observed. However, if a politician wants to be re-elected he does not excoriate the populace for their behavior; he must do the best he can to delay the inevitable disaster brought about by his constituency. (09-1973)
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