The economy
Sir, — A. J. Ford’s letter (September 17) encouraged me to do some research on the New International Economic Order, arid I am very glad I did. It appears to be a brain child of that small clique of international financiers who control the World Bank, the United Nations, and who exert tremendous influence over most countries. Their talk of transferring wealth from rich to poor nations sounds like the creation of a gigantic welfare state, but I cannot believe that the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds have philanthropic motives at heart. Socialism is not a humanitarian movement; it is a system used by the
super-rich to gain totalitarian monopolistic control of a country. This results in an elite with all the wealth, and the rest reduced to peasant status, as in Russia* Socialism has crippled us enough already. A socialist world government is not the answer to our problems. — Yours, etc.,
FRANK A.' SMITH. September 19, 1980.
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