Opinions
Ambassador to Romania speaks
at Campbell Univ. gathering
Dr. David Funderburk recently
spoke at Campbell University. Dr.
Funderburk is America's present
Ambassador to Romania, and with
r his mother, the late Vesta Funder
burk, and family lived in Aber
deen.
Campbell College at Buies Creek
is a rising University in that area of
the state. It is a Baptist institution.
In writing about Dr. Funder
burk, President Reagan said: "In
selecting Dr. Funderburk to repre
sent our country abroad, I
recognized not only his individual
t achievement but also the high
quality of the institutional pro
gram at Campbell College.
Dr. Funderburk is doing an ex
cellent job of representing our na
tions values in an important
Eastern Bloc country, and he is in
creasing the prestige of your
university at the same tune." ?
We are proud to read what the
President had to say about a young
l man we know and that people in
the highest places think well of
him.
People and Issues
HOSPITAL COSTS ... Most
Americans know that the cost of
hospitalization has risen sharply in
recent years; however, too few
people realize just how high it's
risen. According to the May issue
of Reader's Digest, the daily rate
hospitals charge patients for need
ed necessities, you can't blame
people for turning to government
for help.
GENEROUS ... We also note
that Americans are the most*
generous people in the world, and
in 1982 individuals set a record for
charitable giving, donating nearly
$54 billion to the nation's churches
and charities.
MID-LIFE ... Thousands of
Americans are becoming parents in
mid-life. Between 1970 and 1981
the rate or first births'for Woinfetf
aged 29-39 increased by one third.
COST SHIFTING ... Hospital
cost shifting, which emails com
pensating for reduced Medicare
and Medicaid payments by in
flating charges to private patients,
is growing worse.
Health Insurance Association of
America estimates that a typical
private patient's hospital bill today
would be 12.6 percent lower if the
hospital did not engage in cost
shifting. '
That comes to about $25 per pa
tient per day, says the Association.
RUSSIA ... We read that the
Soviet economic system has a
population of 16 percent larger
than the United States, its
economy produces only about half
as much as the U.S. economy.
Since prices are set by the govern
ment, there are severe shortages of
almost all goods including food.
Food now, comprises one-third of
the Soviet Union's imports from
the west. . M t
We read that the rate of
economic growth has fallen sharp
ly. During the period, 1965-82, the
economy grew at a rate of about
3.8 percent a year.
Special interest groups
not served by Democrats
By Richard A. Viguerk
1978: A San Francisco city
supervisor resigned his office, then
asked the mayor to reappoint him.
When the mayor refused, the
former supervisor strapped on his
service revolver, climbed through a
window in the basement of city
hall, went to the mayor's office
and shot him in the head. He
reloaded his gun, walked down the
hall to the office of his principal
adversary on the board of super
visors, and killed him, too.
Supervisor Dan White was tried
for the murder of Mayor George
Moscone and Supervisor Harvey
Milk. The jury found that White
had "diminished mental capacity"
because of financial and political
problems and because he had eaten
a lot of junk food. Some five years
later, White was walking the
streets as a free man.
1983: Two male high school
students, ages 17 and 18, met a
man at a bar in Washington, D.C.
They invited him to a party but in
stead took him to a deserted park,
where they pulled a knife on him.
Then they robbed him, forced him
to strip and lie on the ground, and
began to kick him and urinate on
him. They threatened to castrate
him or kill him, and when he tried
to get away, they used the knife on
him ~ severing four tendons in his
hand.
He finally escaped, and the
assailants were arrested. Last
month they were sentenced: proba
tion and 400 hours of work in a
soup kitchen.
TTiese two cases have something
in common. Both the man
assaulted in the park and the
murdered city supervisor were
homosexual. And in both cases,
the courts applied standards of
justice that are becoming more and
more common in this country -
the standards of a liberal welfare
state that considers the rights of
criminals more important than the
rights of victims.
Inevitably, many of the victims
of crime are members of groups
that are rock-solid parts of the
liberal Democratic coalition that
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governs America. Homosexuals
are one such group. Despite their
practices, which are abhorrent to
the vast majority of people,
homosexuals are entitled to the
same protection as other citizens;
their rights are trampled upon
when judges throw the jail doors
open.
Leaders of homosexual political
organizations seem oblivious to the
fact that most of the candidates
they support are soft on criminals.
The same is true of groups that
claim to represent blacks and
women.
Most black leaders seem to care
little about crime, despite the fact
that crime hits blacks much harder
than whites. A black woman has a
one-third greater chance to be a
victim of violent crime than a
white woman. Blacks comprise
18% of all aggravated assault vic
tims, 23% of all robbery victims,
and 42.3% of all murder victims.
Fifty-six percent of blacks are
afraid to walk through their
neighborhoods at night. Nearly
three out of four blacks say
government should spend more to
fight crime (compared to less than
45% who want more spent on
welfare). More than three-fourths
believe that judges should be
tougher on criminals.
And they should know, because
black people are far more likely
than whites to live in
neighborhoods where the police
have given up on fighting crime.
They are far more likely to live in
neighborhoods where they are
afraid to send their kids to school
because the schools are infested
with violence and drugs.
You wouldn't know it from the
platforms of so-called "feminist"
organizations that claim to repre
sent women, but nearly four out of
Ave women want more money
spent on law enforcement. That at
titude is understandable: Women
are physically more vulnerable to
all sorts of violent crime. Accor
ding to one study, one woman in
10 will be the victim of rape
sometime during her life. Mean
while, sleazy "adult" bookstores
and movie houses run by organized
crime degrade and dehumanize
women.
Yet even as homosexual, black,
and feminist groups plan an all-out
drive to garner votes for the liberal
Democratic candidate for presi
dent this fall, the Democratic Par
ty in Congress blocks a bill that
would reform sentencing pro
cedures, changes the exclusionary
rule, and otherwise makes life
harder for criminals. As this is
written, a bill including those pro
visions is bottled up in the House
by Judiciary Committee Chairman
Peter Rodino and Speaker "Tip"
O'Neill. If the bill never comes to a
vote, it will only add to the
Democratic Party's image as being
soft on criminals.
An exaggeration? Consider this
item that appeared in the May 14
U.S. News and World Report:
"Democrats think they've found a
new source of voters for the fall --
prisoners. Organizers hope Jo
register more than 300,000 inmates
who retain voting rights and hope
most of these will cast ballots for
Democratic candidates."
One can only guess what that
special interest group wants in ex
change for its votes.
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