Elementary economics would seem to imply that the fewer people there are, the more they will be valued, and I claim that valuing people more is a good thing.

J.

Since the end of WW2, far too many American families have tried to elect federal leaders all the way down to school board members to fix what ails the American family after a devastating world war. We ended up extending the world of war in Korea and Vietnam. The individual American was lost in an effort to rebuild the family unit.

Did we allow the world of television to replace the core of the family itself? We turned our brains over to the exposure of new products that would fix us as individuals and income producers.

Our culture turned into an element of shocking bad taste. Art, music, literature and even poetry was taken over by various body functions that did catch the attention of many.

I was taken into the television presentation of celebrating the new Pope. I am not a Christian but just an old lady in search of a spiritual plan to bring a state of growth and happiness to the American family. I love the thought that St. Francis was the name chosen by the new Pope. We are a family of animal lovers and this was a very positive action.

Being a fan of Ayn Rand, I would want the focus for any planned culture to be based on the individual qualities and talents of the members of the family. If the church wants to get involved in finding pleasure within a family unit or even a city government, I would be the first to volunteer.

Our cities are made up of individual family units working together to build communities and schools laid out with safety and good health in the bargain.

The key element within this recipe of a good community should be the family taking control over the schools, laws and welfare assistance. Too many wars took our best Americans and a culture of television commercials robbed us of planners for the next generation.

The cities close up gradually leaving huge developments of cheap housing with no jobs anywhere to be found. The strength that is missing in America is the concept of a strong intelligent community of individuals. This is the community that Ayn Rand wrote about and putting the whole package under the individual head of the family is what killed it.

The government should give us our laws and stay out of the family planning part. That takes too much time away from television shows about the wives of Atlanta, etc.

We traded our American way of life from Ayn Rand to George Orwell. It is a more popular concept than to try and make individuals the core of our being.

There will never be an organized plan for individuals in America.