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FREEDOMWAYS                             
FIRST QUARTER 1968

to enlarged defense outlays, but is merely a demonstration that the domestic priorities set forth in the "Freedom Budget" are achievable even if defense outlays should in fact be expanded greatly from our current levels. Moreover, if the outlays for national defense proper should fall far below those projected in the "Freedom Budget," I believe that the gain should be translated into much larger efforts on our part to help the underdeveloped parts of the world toward more rapid economic and social progress, which as I have said would still leave plenty of resources available for the domestic priorities set forth in the "Freedom Budget."
  
Mr. Browne also makes the point that the "Freedom Budget" does not allow properly for the types of personnel which would be required to serve the proposed expansion of domestic programs. Mr. Browne is in error on this score, because the study underlying the "Freedom Budget" took full account of our manpower potential by type and did not take account only of our total GNP potential without regard for its composition. It is true that there are now very serious shortages of teachers, doctors, nurses, etc., but these shortages were accruing at a serious rate prior to the war in Vietnam and even prior to the war in Vietnam and even prior to the cold war, and they have been accruing because we have not adopted the policies needed to allocate to the public sector the resources which would call forth the rapid expansion of these types of personal services. The default is a long enduring nationwide moral default. If the determination exists and is translated into nation action, there is ample room in the economy to undertake the training and other programs which during the decade ahead will expand the supply of these types of services sufficiently to meet the imperative national need.
  
If this need cannot be met solely or mainly by those now on the unemployment roles, then we should adopt the programs necessary to transfer employment from the private sector, which is the very meaning of national priorities, and thus precisely what we have done with respect to civilian employment, insofar as it has been necessary, in support of the defense program and getting to the moon. The "Freedom Budget" insists that these are not the only priorities to which national policy should respond.
  
It may be true that engagement in a cold war makes it more difficult to marshal the will and the consents to move forward on other fronts. But the problems of our poor and our cities and
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