Women have for a long time been more active in politics than men at the level of making the machinery run, if not at the level of obtaining office. These new challenges to the way the home and the family are structured, to the way children are escorted into society, are likely to inspire more women to move from stuffing envelopes to setting policy positions. Break us out of the urban-blight syndrome into which we've trapped ourselves for decades and let people see the ways in which the experiences of families are similar rather than focusing on the ways in which they're different. If my generation had paid more attention to and learned more about these elements of the story from two extraordinary journalists of our time who did just thisMichael Harrington and Joseph Lyfordwe might very well have done a better job monitoring social change in our reporting during the 1950's and 60's. Finally, there is the whole question of privatization of public responsibilities.
Interesting things happen to social programs when they become profit centers.
Don't worry, he said, the elimination of entitlements guarantees that the demand for your services will remain strong in the future. Now, just think about that. We have created a system with a vested interest in a high crime rate to create a constant demand for their services. Many of you, I'm sure, have read stories of Lockheed's views that privatized, state welfare programs have the potential of becoming a major revenue source for them to replace the lost military contracts. In Virginia, according to National Child Support Advocacy Coalition testimony, Lockheed worked out a pilot study deal with the Division of Child Support Enforcement to prove their worth as managers of a privatized system.