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PAGE 6 â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9. 1983 ‘"We want you to permit us to borrow an added $5 billion this financial year and $14 billion to start the next year April 1st, but we‘re not going to tell you how we‘ll spend it."" In summary. this is what the Liberal Government demanded of Members of Parliament when it submitted Bill C143 to debate last week. The arrogance and the insensitivity of this government has been confirmed by yet another unprecedented fiscal manoeuvre. ..It is time for Canaâ€" dians to have a Federal Government that will trust them with the facts‘ Since Pierre Trudeau became Prime Minister fifteen years ago, Federal Gov ernment spending has increased more than eight fold. The Estimates of Govern ment Expenditures for 1983â€"84. tabled in the House of Commons last week, are a part of the continuum of economic mis management going back to 1968. The federal budget was comfortably in balance" when Prime Minister Trudeau and his Ministers took control over it in the Second Class Mail Registration Number 5540 But no. A voice from the outside world, a Joan of Anarchist from the printing company in Guelph which spews out the sheet, has to go and offer the paper official status by refusing to prepare the latest issue Femenginews under the pretext it is sexist and obscene. A move which has resulted in her dismissal from the company. Fact one. Enginews, the newspaper published by the undergraduate Engineering Society B at University of Waterloo, is racy, sexist, base journalism at best and tackiest of tabloids at worst. About as obscene though, as a Don Rickles monoâ€" logue. Fact two. No one knows all that better than Engineering Society B. Fact three. Next to a decent parking spot, Enginews, selfâ€"supporting this year through its own advertising, is one of the hardest items to find on campus because it is a) of restricted distribution to engineering students only, and b) joe popuâ€" lar. Left to wallow in its own decadence, for the prurient pleasure of those loveable hardhats whose lifestyle dictates they must march to the beat of a different drummer (we have seen their softball team), Enginews would merely continue to exist, offending everyone and offending no one, if you catch the drift. The woman in question is not to be chastised for her principles or philosophies in life, but a selfâ€"styled sitâ€"down strike is hardly an effective tool to combat that which offends her. If she has a gripe about the content of the paper, the focus of any action should be toward not the account itself, but the agent which allowed the silly little orphan on the premises in the first place. Read her bosses. And, after examining the contents of the paper and finding them acceptable to be printed under their banner (which at least one of its predecessors did not) the company still said print it, she should have done just that. Or resigned, if the scales of compromise were weighted unfairly. But no. So the firing results in the casting of her as a media martyr, and what‘s to follow? The predictable barrage of newspaper and electronic media coverage, condemnations from groups that would blast a family breakfast as unlawful assembly, and lowbrow comments from highranking offiâ€" cials. And in the vortex sit the playful plumbers, giddy as goats at the asylum so suddenly swirling around them. * WALTER McLEAN Gutter bawl published every Wednesday by Fairway Press, a division of Kitchenerâ€"Waterioo Record Ltd., owner 225 Fairway Rd.S., Kitchener, Ont. Waterloo Chronicle office is located in the Harper, Haney and White Law Office Building (rear entrance, upper floor) Parking at the rear of the building Open Monday to Friday. 9:00 a m to 5:00 p.m address correspondence to Waterioo office 45 Erb St. E.. Waterloo, Ont. N2J 1L7, telephone 886 2830 late 60‘s. The years that would follow record an increasing deficit. Ottawa‘s expenditures have risen from $10.7 billion in fiscal 1968â€"69, to at least $88.9 billion in the 1983â€"84 fiscal year beginning on April 1. Since 1968, of course, there has been serious inflation. The consumer price level has tripled. But even if government spending increased to match inflation, expenditures now would be more like $30 billion, but surely not $90 billion. Today, 21% of national revenue goes to servicing Canada‘s growing debt. And, despite such glaring evidence of overâ€" spending, the Minister of Finance, Marc Lalonde, stood before Parliament and asked for the authority to raid the Treasury again ... an extra $19 billion, coupled with the $5 billion already allocat ed in only October of last year. Such a request has been made without buttressing evidence of a budget, or even an outline of the fiscal and monetary position of this government. In effect. Lalonde has asked Publisher: Paul Winkler Manager: Bill Karges Editor: Rick Campbell established 1854 Immediate concerns "If you are going to do something on a joint basis, you do it from day one â€" you don‘t cry help after you are in trouble." Yeak , und maybe N 2e should call pack cornae Greeat a«d Rich L_ifle teoo _/ It is written for a "blank cheque" from the Members of the House of Commons. Given the longâ€" term reputation of this government for reckless and wasteful spending, it is hardly in the public interest to blindly sign over our future economic stability to a government that is responsible for the preseni financial disaster.... The Canadian Chamber of Commerce has offered sound and reasonable advice to the Minister of Finance in its Preâ€"Budget Statement: "Just as businesses must forego attractive investment opportunities when funds are insufficient to finance them,. (or as individuals must give up consumer purchases when wants exceed the family budget), so too must the government give up some otherwise good programs when the country cannot afford them."© With revenues shrinking and social costs rising. new capital cannot go toward national growth. The immediate concerns, NoOwW, LET ME GET THIS STRAJIGHT,.. YOU wWwanTt mE TO PICK uP THOSE SI% AMERICAN HOSTAGE<, \TAKEZ THEM BACK AND DUMP THEM in IRAN ? John McVicar, Director of Advanced Sales at Equitable Life Insurance Co. of Waterioo insightfully comments: _ "*...Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo was built on the savings of a large number of small business people, who carefully planned not only their day to day business affairs ut also their longâ€"term future". He continâ€" ues: ‘*None of the people and professionals that I have talked to recently are enâ€" amoured with the idea that such a large additional debt should be incurred now by this government. It contradicts the solid financial scruples of this community â€" that accepts the concept of living within one‘s means!" such as tackling interest payments on the Federal debt and supporting the unemâ€" ployed, must be answered. The longâ€"term legacy of policy errors (made during the 70‘s) can only be overâ€"come by renewed commitment to restraint and curtailed spending. Waterloo Mayor Marjorie Carroll commenting on statements re the subsidy of Centre in the Square. 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