○  1984 vice presidential nomination acceptance address  ○

in elmore, there are family farms; in queens, small businesses. but the men and women who run them all take pride in supporting their families through hard work and initiative. on the 4th of july in elmore, they hang flags out on main street; in queens, they fly them over grand avenue. but all of us love our country, and stand ready to defend the freedom that it represents.

americans want to live by the same set of rules. but under this administration, the rules are rigged against too many of our people. it isn't right that every year the share of taxes paid by individual citizens is going up, while the share paid by large corporations is getting smaller and smaller. the rules say: everyone in our society should contribute their fair share. it isn't right that this year ronald reagan will hand the american people a bill for interest on the national debt larger than the entire cost of the federal government under john f. kennedy. our parents left us a growing economy. the rules say: we must not leave our kids a mountain of debt.

it isn't right that a woman should get paid 59 cents on the dollar for the same work as a man.

if you play by the rules, you deserve a fair day's pay for a fair day's work. it isn't right that, if trends continue, by the year 2000 nearly all of the poor people in america will be women and children. the rules of a decent society say: when you distribute sacrifice in times of austerity, you don't put women and children first. it isn't right that young people today fear they won't get the social security they paid for, and that older americans fear that they will lose what they

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