Devolution; D. McAdoo

JAMES E. McADOO 567 ROBERT JAMES BIDINOTTO THE HORDES of the impoverished who recently dwelled in Wash ington demanding more welfare assistance, public housing, and a guaranteed income managed to resurrect as their justification the old but familiar cries of "ex ploitation" and "social injustice" which, they said, had been their fate under the American system. What these terms meant to the demonstrators was apparently at odds with what the dictionaries say they mean, but the "liberal" leaders and propagandists re peated them, too, and with each repetition of each slogan the pickets and marchers felt more victimized by the capitalism they have been taught to hate, and more self-righteous in their crusade for cradle-to-grave wel fare. Their support came from Mr. Bidinotto is a sophomore, specializing in economics at Grove City College, Pennsyl vania. 568 both those who should know bet ter, and those who do know bet ter. In the latter category are those who have vested interests in the pressure-group warfare of the welfare state.