CATCHING UP
Rev. Kenneth Gombert of Hop Bottom, Pennsylvania sent in this item: President Reagan tells how we could match Russia’s record after its more than half a century of socialism: “We’d have to cut our paychecks by more than 80%; move thirty-three million workers back to the farm; destroy fifty-nine million television sets; tear up fourteen of every fifteen miles of highway; junk nineteen of every twenty cars; tear up two-thirds of our railroad tracks; knock down seventy percent of our houses; and rip out nine of every ten telephones. Then all we have to do is find a capitalist country to sell us wheat on credit to keep us from starving.
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