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 _
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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.
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■ OPINION
Welfare reform will hurt women
being taken rare of and taught
not to question injustice.
Women are conditioned into not
striving for much.
Women traditionally set their
sights far below those that men
consider for themselves Women
don't think. "1 will, I am and 1
do." Women tend to think. "I
might, I couid and if only
We live in a sic k, addictive
society that doesn't value equal
ly its human resources
Children and education don't
matter. 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.