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EDITORIAL Cover more drinks under ‘bottle bill’ There has boon much talk in Salem lately — talk about single mothers, talk about education, talk about crime anti talk about bottles. Some of this talk has boon posi live, and some (mostly the talk demo by Kevin Mannix) has been fairly negative. The big topic of talk last week in Salem Was bottles. Should the bottle bill be expanded to cover more types of bottles and where should they be taken for recycling? Rep, Floyd Prozanskl would like to sec the legal don nit ion of beverage expanded to include any ready-to drink liquid, except milk and milk substitutes. A lobby ist for Safeway Inc. would _ Ii Jwtf iu 9m 1I.1W »t'*>puU3IUI HI V for collet ting recyclable con tainers fall to a central collec tion center as opposed to the stores, where it currently lies We think f’rozanski has a pretty good point. There are so many beverage choices now, including Snapple. Up ton Iced Ten and Ocean Spray iulce drinks. The list is end We would applaud and enthusiasti cally < upport a hill that expanded the legal defi nition of beverage and would allow com utners to recycle more con tainers for dcfxistt less. Wouldn’t it be great to got a few cents back on those bottles, too? In addition. Pro/anski would like to see the 5 cent deposit double. We think both of these ideas are very good, Studies have shown that Oregon’s recycling program for bottles works in Oregon. 93 percent of bottles get returned to the store. wo am not quite as enthusiastic about moving the col* lot lion of bottles from grocery stores to recycling centers Wo understand what a hassle it is for people who have to count the bottles We also are sympathetic to the safe ty concerns that grocery stores and their employees have about handling dirty bottles. All of these concerns are legitimate and need to l>e addressed. But changing the location of bottle collection from the stores to central collection < enters could drastically hall the success of Oregon's bottle recyt ling efforts. One of the reasons so many people recycle their bottles is because it is easy and convenient Recyclers don't have to go out of their way to do their environmental duty. If Oregon were to build huge central recycling centers, would the public continue to recycle its bottles and cans? Wo don’t think so. Mure impmi.iimy, wnere win me money to out iu these new facilities come from? The state is already strapped for cash and will have trouble fulfilling the financial obligations imposed on it in the Nov. 8 elec tion. We would applaud and enthusiastically support a bill that expanded the legal definition of beverage and would allow consumers to recycle more containers for deposit But we oppose a bill that would move the recycling of bottles and cans from grocery stores because we think it would reverse years of success in recycling. Oregon Daily Emerald PO 001 OftIGOH %?*>.> Tha Oagon (Wy / marMtf« [nAWatwd darty Unit, though Friday durtrg f* school y«* and 1.,«vliti and Thursday down ma hr* - or by tha Oagon Oa*y t mar aid PuekWwg Co . toe id tha u*vvfwvt> o* Oagon,! ogana, Dragon Tha f my»a*J naiita fnaapandontty o' ma O’-vw v*> w«h ort*wa id Su*a 300 ol ma t>t> Moc*v» -a lirvan and » a mamuar oi ma AsaottaUd P'ons The f •”«»«•> a pnvata property TK« untawtul removal or u»e sA popart a croaocutatte by l*w Managing Editor Editorial Editor Hear* Art EcRtty Eraaianca Editor Editor in Chiet K«y Solo !>aw! 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Parents send their chil dren through public school sys tems that are not much more than overpopulated baby-sitting servu es loiter, sot forty wonders how things could have gotten so laid and what happened to fam ily values. The fashionable family values Of the late '50s and early 't>0s that right-wingers want society to return to meant nothing then and mean even less today One shared, perhaps even "family” value, is the common perception not to t are Kids are tough and tan take care of them selves Push off the responsibil ity onto someone else sustain, it is no wonder that folk like Gingrich take a survival-of the-fittest attitude Losing sense of our collective altruism means nothing to politicians who have more than enough to get by and don't question their ulterior motives. Go hack to the word, welfare. Welfare means well-being and health It has < otne to mean gov ernment programs Welfare is what primary care takers, moms and dads, do. They take care of the well-being of children. Families do that, however non-conventional fam ilies are As long as children have a good self-esteem, respect for others and are loved, they’re in the right family Sex of par ents doesn't matter, religion doesn't matter and race doesn't matter What matters is that chil dren are secure and assured of their well-being — their welfare But Gingrich's plan is much more than semantics His plan doesn't attempt to hold defense contracts to the same standards he wants to apply to welfare \sv Mosm koKNm i> he recent proposals to reform th<! welfare system JL an- .1 further att.u *■ ng.urist women Women are the main rei spi onto of welfare benefits Poverty, then, out (»■ regarded ns benefi cial to women, tjess Iwncfite ami mom poverty vvill make women strong, no doubt Women will !*• able to enhance their job train ing and skills be< a use despera tion makes people, especially female welfare cheats, work Women have been making strides to get ahead and to i linage the structure of six iely Welfare cuts an* another slap in women's face* Get back in your plai e. honey Don't think for a minute about getting ahead, not in this century No way. no how v* finin' restructuring is an attempt to shake people off the social ladder who don't vote and who don't take part in how we mobilize our society. Balancing the budget by elim inating social programs may look good in the short term, but once the Republicans get out of office and inner-cities fall into further ruin, there are still the long term effects Rich grint.h Gingrich. Gin grich's plan is thoughtless His plan and the criticism that social problems evolved out of devel oping large-scale social pro grams are wrong-headed evalua tions. One thing is for sure, women and welfare get the sucker punch. Anne Moter-Kornfeid is a columnist for the Emerald. Money is pndttiB n who accept government assis tamo do not want to l>e id a dependent situation. The gov ernment's income restrictions penalize welfare recipients, individuals who want to earn an income that puts them above the poverty line lose their chance at getting up and out of the welfare trap Women venture to move out of dependent relationships with men and economically struggle to provide for themselves To do this, women must first achieve economic independence. From there women are able to achieve liberation But women continue to earn far less than their male counter parts. even when a woman's qualification* are equal to or surpass those of a man. Money is a double-edged sword for women. Women aren't supposed to want the same things as men. When women do. their reputations are called into question. Women's basic needs are viewed as greed Welfare comes naturally to women. Women are used to The legacy left behind by the Father Knows Best mindset is to forget that what happens this year greatly efforts what will happen in twenty year* or into the next millennium. When we deplete the welfare system and relegate children to orphanages and substandard schools, we've shown how little stock we'll put into the future Income has gotten stratified to the point where the division between those who have and those who have not uses up our human resources People are hustling around to break even and are unable to use their ener gy toward collective good With the human population growing every year and far exceeding what the planet (.an ■ CORRECTION A column in Thursday's Oregon Daily Emerald incorrectly stated that OSPIRCs budget is smaller than the Emerald’s. However, the Emerald was actually allotted $129,000 last year, behind OSP1RG.
