From: goodrich@lynx.larc.nasa.gov (Mike Goodrich)
Subject: Re: Family Values
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA  USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 17:23:48 GMT

In article <Sep.2.11.28.27.1992.15202@gandalf.rutgers.edu>, shagan@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Susan Hagan) writes:
|> steve@celia.UUCP (Steve Tyree) writes:
|> 
|> >In article <AWERLING.92Aug31172210@dante.nmsu.edu> awerling@nmsu.edu (WERLING) writes:
|> 
|> > Reread Bill Bennets speech at the convention. Family Values means relying on
|> >your family members and surrounding neighbors for support, counsel and guid-
|> >ance and not expecting a big government socialist program to cure all the
|> >problems you have. It also means establishing a set of traditions or values
|> 
|> However, there is nothing wrong with pooling resources for the benefit of
|> the entire society.
|> 
|> >within your family which you think are important. 
|> > These values can vary from family to family but must be based on a foundation
|> >of ideals. These ideals can be very simple. Don't steal, murder, use racism et
|> 
|> Thats not exactly true.  Stealing is okay if you are the government and you 
|> are stealing property that may have been purchased with drug money or may
|> have been used to transport drugs - even though you don't have a shred of 
|> evidence.
|> 
|> And murder is okay if it is done by a member of the Armed Forces, and if
|> the victim is someone the government has decided should be murdered.

You are playing loose with the definition of murder here...

|> 
|> Thank goodness, I don't think the government has come up with an exuse for
|> racism, but I'm probably wrong about that one.

Try EOE.

|> 
|> Anyway, the point is, there really is no foundation of ideals.  But the
|> government pretends that there is.

I'm sorry that your house is built on sand, with no proper foundation... But then
the storms came and ...

|> 
|> c>etc. The family unit can pass its value system along with is fortune down to
|> >succeding members. Eventually the family becomes economically secure and might
|> 
|> Yes, that value system is, work hard, do what you're told, keep your nose 
|> clean, mind your own business, pray that a beaurocratic screw-up doesn't
|> end up screwing up your life, lay low, be homogenous, 
|> and hope that your retirement and social security benefits will 
|> be there when you get old.
|> 
|> What kind of life is that?
|> 
|> >even free itself from the bondage of labor. They still will have to pay taxes
|> >though. At least for now.
|> 
|> So everyone's goal is to be filthy rich?  I don't think so. 
|> 
|> Bill Bennet should run a workshop on Family Values for the GOP.  If this is
|> the official definition of "Family Values", you and Bennet seem to be the
|> only ones who know it.
|> 
|> Bush/Quayle seem to be making up the definition as they go along.  However, 
|> even though you don't seem to see this, one message rings loud and clear:
|> the only families that are acceptable are 2 parent, heterosexual, families.
|> Every other type of family has been denounced by Bush/Quayle.

This is better than distorting even more basic terms such as LIFE, PRIVACY, etc.


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