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PAGE 7—The Southern Cross, September 6,1984
Recommendations: Abortion, Arms, Employment
assistance for those who need it.”
“The role of the federal government should be
limited.”
^ “Our most important economic goal is to expand and
continue the economic recovery and move the nation to
full employment without inflation.”
“Republicans support comprehensive farm-labor
legislation, fair to workers and employers, to protect
consumers from work stoppages which disrupt the flow of
food.”
“Our resurgent economy has created over 6 million new
jobs and reduced unemployment by 30 percent.”
“We have launched real welfare programs. We have
targeted benefits to the needy through tighter eligibility
wandards, enforced child support laws, and encouraged
‘workfare’ in the states.”
“We reaffirm the right of all individuals freely to form,
join, or assist labor organizations to bargain collectively,
consistent with state laws and free from unnecessary
government involvement.”
“We reaffirm our long-standing support for the right of
states to enact ‘right to work’ laws....”
“For millions of black Americans, Hispanics Americans,
Asian Americans and members of other minority groups,
the past four years have seen a dramatic improvement in
their ability to secure for themselves and for their children
^ better tomorrow. That is the American dream. The
policies of the Reagan administration have opened
literally millions of doors for these Americans, doors
which either did not exist or were rapidly being slammed
shut by the no-growth policies of the Carter-Mondale
administration.”
FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL POLICY
- U.S. Catholic Conference:
REAGAN RENOMINATED - President Convention in Dallas. The two accepted their
Reagan and Vice President George Bush wave to party’s nomination to run for a second term. (NC
the delegates of the 33rd Republican National photo from UPI)
“The right to eat follows from the right to life. We
support a national policy aimed at securing this right,
including nutrition programs which help meet the needs
of hungry and malnourished Americans, especially
children, the poor, the unemployed, and the elderly.
“ . . . The United States should support the
maintenance of an agricultural system based on small and
moderate-sized family farms both at home and abroad.”
- Republican Platform:
“We will provide adequate resources in programs
« nging from food stamps to school lunches for the truly
sedy. We also recognize that fraud and abuse must be
eliminated from those programs. We stress maximum local
control consistent with national objectives.”
“Our agricultural people have developed the ideals of
free enterprise and have based their enterprise on our
culture’s basic element, the family.”
“Family farms and ranches are the heart, soul and
backbone of American agriculture; it is the family farm
that makes our system work better than any other.”
housing for all Americans as a national policy goal. Today,
however, we are far from achieving that goal. Housing
costs have increased to the point that millions of families
cannot obtain decent housing without depriving
themselves in other vital areas.
“National housing policy should: (1) provide sufficient
resources and programs to meet the housing needs of low-
and moderate-income families; (2) ensure the adequate
production of new low-income housing; (3) seek to
preserve existing housing stock and support
neighborhoods by opposing ‘redlining’ and encouraging
rehabilitation and re-investment in central cities; (4)
encourage monetary policy and credit allocation systems
that provide a sustained supply of affordable credit for
housing production; (5) focus effort on the special needs
of low-income families, blacks, Hispanics, rural people,
the elderly and the handicapped; (6) support the integral
participation of housing consumers and tenants in
decisions regarding housing at neighborhood, community
and national levels; and (7) promote equal housing
opportunity within a framework of cultural pluralism.”
- Republican Platform:
^EALTH CARE
^J.S. Catholic Conference:
“Adequate health care is a basic human need to which
society must respond according to its best ability. Budget
cuts, rising health costs and high unemployment have
deprived millions of adequate preventive and acute care.
“While our goal remains a comprehensive national
health insurance program, we strongly urge that
immediate attention be given to meeting the basic health
needs of the poor, half of whom are ineligible for
Medicaid under current standards.”
- Republican Platform:
“The Republican Party reaffirms its commitment to
assure a basic level of high quality health care for all
Americans. We reaffirm as well our opposition to any
proposals for compulsory national health insurance.”
“We affirm the right and responsibility of parents to
participate in decisions about the treatment of children.
We will not tolerate the use of federal funds, taxed away
from parents, to abrogate their role in family health care.”
HOUSING
I.S. Catholic Conference:
f “Twenty-five years ago Congress established decent
“Federal housing blighted stable low-income
neighborhoods, disrupting communities.... Only
government could have wasted billions of dollars to create
the instant slums which disgrace our cities.”
“We will, over time, replace subsidies and welfare
projects with a voucher system, returning public housing
to the free market.”
“Despite billions of dollars poured into public housing
developments, conditions remain deplorable for many
low-income Americans who live in them.
“The Republican Party therefore supports... home
ownership of public housing developments by current
residents.”
“We strongly believe in open housing. We will
vigorously enforce all fair housing laws....”
“Private property is the cornerstone of our liberty and
the free enterprise system. The right of property
safeguards for citizens all things of value: their land,
merchandise and money, their religious convictions....”
HUMAN RIGHTS
- U.S. Catholic Conference:
“The dignity of the human person requires the defense
and promotion of human rights in global and domestic
affairs. With respect to human rights internationally, there
is a pressing need for the United States to pursue a double
task: to strengthen and expand international mechanisms
by which human rights can be protected and promoted,
and to take seriously the human rights dimensions of U.S.
foreign policy.
“We also support a policy which gives greater weight to
the protection of human rights in the conduct of U.S.
affairs. The pervasive presence of U.S. power in many
parts of the world creates a responsibility to use that
power in the service of human rights.”
- Republican Platform:
“A well-rounded human rights policy is concerned with
specific individuals whose rights are denied by
governments of the right or left, and with entire peoples
whose communist governments deny their claim to human
fights as individuals....”
“By focusing solely on the shortcomings of
non-communist governments, Democrats have missed the
forest for the trees, failing to recognize that the greatest
threat to human rights is the communist system itself.”
“We share a deep concern for peace and justice in
Northern Ireland and condemn all violence and terrorism
in that strife-torn land.”
“We stand in solidarity with the peoples of Eastern
Europe... and all captive nations who struggle daily
against their Soviet masters.”
IMMIGRATION
- U.S. Catholic Conference:
“ ... We support immigration reform legislation which,
among other things, provides a generous legalization
program for undocumented aliens and preserves the
traditional U.S. policy of giving priority to family
reunification. At the same time, we are deeply concerned
about the potential impact of proposed employer
sanctions for hiring undocumented aliens upon U.S.
citizens and legal aliens of Hispanic origin. We are also
concerned about the possible expansion of the present
H-2 temporary workers program into a system of
guestworkers which could erode labor standards and
compound the problems of domestic farmworkers.”
- Republican Platform:
“We affirm our country’s absolute right to control its
borders. Those desiring to enter must comply with our
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