MEANS TO AN END

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31588, 27 January 1968, Page 12

MEANS TO AN END

(BY

WHIM WHAM)

. And some observers see America suffering from some of the things that have brought Britain, they believe, to her present pass ... a leader In the Knight chain of newspapers remarks acidly: "Years of living beyond their means have brought Britons to this sorry pass. The United States Government has been guilty of similar prodigality, but Americans haven’t been handed the bill—yet. —News item. ‘They lived beyond their Means’. Sir, one imagines Scenes Of Luxury, Excess, Of Spendthrift Idleness, Belshazzar, Nero, and the Tsars, Old Wines, new Minks, and Rajahs’ Cars, And private Pools, and Cocktail Bars, The Fools of Wealth who never know How far their Means will go, Or finding out too late Fall with their Bills, on the due Date. Not so the Modem State, The Measure of ITS Means Is Nuclear Submarines, Missiles, and a sufficient Diet To keep the Electorate sweet, and quiet! Prices and Wages, Health, and Housing. You’re free to do your own Carousing According to the Means you’ve got, Unless the Budget swipes the Lot. The Means we NATIONALLY possess Are any Statistician’s Guess Beyond which, or within, The Vote may turn, the Rot set in. ‘They lived beyond their Means’? Sir, one imagines Scenes Of Hunger, Debt, and Squalor, Where one such ‘prodigal’ Dollar Tossed by a thriftless State could give Less than the Means to LIVE, Bronx Ghetto, Glasgow Slum, And still the Millions come! Living for so THEIR Choice must fall ‘Beyond our Means’, or not at All!