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Of The Emerald
America may be the richest
country in the history of the world,
but there are still inequities that
keep some qroups of people from
living as they should, Con
gressman Jim Weaver said
Friday.
Weaver told the audience of
nearly 100 senior citizens he
considers them to be members of
one of the groups most lacking in
support.
"We live in the greatest and
the richest country in the history of
the world. And I believe we can
afford, without a doubt, to make
sure that our senior citizens can
have a fruitful and abundant life for
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many years past their retirement,”
he said.
Weaver’s speech was in
conjunction with a meeting of two
Lane County senior employment
programs that aid people over the
age of 55 find employment within
the community. The programs,
the Senior Companion Program
and the Senior Community
Service Program, work to find
employable senior citizens public
service jobs and find aid for those
isolated seniors in need of help.
Outlining several bills that are of
importance to the senior groups,
Weaver pointed out not all
legislation introduced to aid the
elderly has been passed.
“I’m an optimist, but I’m also
outraged by some of the actions of
Congress in recent weeks,”
Weaver said. Citing an example of
a recently defeated bill that would
have given private citizens
representation at every gov
ernment hearing or meeting,
Weaver explained: “Every
American citizen should have
been lobbying for that bill, but
instead only one group — the
Senior Citizen Lobby — worked
for its passage.”
The Consumer Representation
Bill, he said, would have given
every citizen a voice in
governmental affairs that affect
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essential costs, but was defeated
last week.
Turning the discussion toward
issues of concern to the senior
citizens, Weaver explained he
would work to end mandatory
retirement and discrimination in
hiring because of age, improve
the present social security system
and fight rising utility costs in the
Pacific Northwest.
Although he had some
“misgivings” about the new social
security bill, Weaver explained
that after changes in the social
security system placing Medi
care and disability payments in
the federal general budget, the
social security program “would
become the retirement program it
was meant to be, and should be.”
Rising utility costs in the
Northwest take a large amount of
a retired person's budget, Weaver
said, and rate increases should be
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legislature if necessary.
Weaver has co-sponsored
several bills in the House of
Representatives that would aid
the elderly by providing better
health care, lower hospital costs
and more equity in pensions, he
explained, but not all the
legislation is being passed.
Much of the opposition to those
bills has been coming from
wealthy corporations and the top
20 percent of the nation’s
Dopulation that holds nearly 52
percent of the income, Weaver
said.
“They are the people who are
fighting the new social security
bill, fighting the Consumer
Representation Bill and fighting
decent utility rates that people
have to pay. If I ever meet these
people I’m going to ask them why
they are so greedy," he explained.
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Krugerrands, the Equal Rights
Amendment and a civic center
complex will be discussed by the
Eugene City Council at 7:30
tonight.
The meeting will be held in the
council chambers at City Hall, 777
Pearl St.
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resolution opposing the sale of the
Krugerrand, a South African gold
coin. The minorities commission
has recommended that the
council adopt the resolution.
In previous discussion on the
Krugerrand issue, the council has
agreed it does not approve of
apartheid, but members are split
on whether it is the city’s place to
become involved in an
international issue, says Alice
Rutter, Eugene’s community
relations officer.
The council also will conduct a
public hearing on a proposal
banning city officials from
attending meetings in states that
have not ratified the Equal Rights
Amendment. The request was
made by the Eugene Women's
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