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Palmetto Publishing Group
Charleston, SC

San Francisco Values

Copyright 2020 by Geri Spieler and Rick Kaplowitz

All rights reserved

All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

First Edition

Printed in the United States

ISBN-13: 978-1-64111-745-6

ISBN-10: 1-64111-745-1

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1America's Real Values

Personal Achievement and Humanitarianism

Reaching for the American Dream

A Healthy Nation

Race and Equality

Religious Faith and Individual Freedom

America's Values

Take Action

Chapter 2The Evolution of Values, San Francisco Style

San Francisco Values

The Growth of San Francisco

Brothels

Emperor Norton

Higher Education

Take Action

Chapter 3Why San Francisco Leads the Nation in Innovation

Computer Tech

Pharma/Biotech

Venture Capital

More Secrets of Silicon Valley's Success

Take Action

Chapter 4How San Francisco Celebrates Love and Families in All Their Diversity

Evolving Sexual Values

Growing Up Gay

Marriage Equality

Marriage as a Civil Rights Issue

Integrity versus Hypocrisy

Take Action

Chapter 5San Francisco Supports Our Troops

In Congress

Wounded Warriors: Caring for Our Vets

Community Support

A Brief Tour of the Bay Area's Military History

War and Peace, and Love, in San Francisco

San Francisco in the 1960s

A Vietnam Veteran Comes Home

Gays in the Military

Take Action

Chapter 6San Francisco Cares about Health Care and Personal Choice

Pricing for Medical Care

Unwanted Pregnancies

Sex Education

Roe v. Wade under Attack

Women's Rights and Women's Health Services

At the End of Life: Dying with Dignity

One Toke over the Line?

Take Action

Chapter 7San Francisco Supports Diversity and Immigration Reform

Migration to the Americas

Immigration Facts Dispute the Fears

Chinese Migrants in the United States

Injustice against Japanese-Americans

American Immigration in the 21st Century

The Dreamers Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

Welcoming the Stranger

Safeguarding Our Children

Take Action

Chapter 8San Francisco Isn't Perfect: Addressing Our Problems

Common National and International Problems

Drug Addiction

Unaffordable Housing

Homelessness

Elsewhere in the Country

Take Action

Chapter 9San Francisco's Political Voices

Nancy Pelosi

Other Notable Bay Area Politicians

Getting America Back on Track

The Authors

More than 26 million visitors travel to San Francisco each year, 23 million from other parts of this country, and three million from abroad.

They come to explore and enjoy the vibrancy and inviting openness of this legendary California site, to see for themselves why eight million people have chosen to make the Bay Area their home, and to see why so much of what becomes the norm across the country begins in this innovative context.

At the same time, conservative commentators from Bill O'Reilly to the blogger next door have tried to make San Francisco Values the three dirtiest words in politics. They use that phrase as a shorthand for plastering an anti-American label on anyone supporting the secular progressive culture commonly associated with the San Francisco Bay Area.

Hey, look, these are tax-raising, terrorist-loving, same-sex marriage supporting, ultra-liberal Democrats who aren't like you and me, claims Republican media strategist Dan Schnur.

The reality, as this book demonstrates, is that our cherished San Francisco values have much in common with the nation's values; that we are indeed one nation, with our strengths, our limitations, and our aspirations; and that we provide leadership on many issues.

As the Christian Science Monitor wrote about San Francisco representative and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi:

Make no mistake: Nancy Pelosi is the most powerful woman in American politics and the most powerful House Speaker since Sam Rayburn a half century ago.

Could the conservatives' fear of this woman's strength and effectiveness be the reason that, in the 2018 elections, Nancy Pelosi was the target in 34% of all GOP broadcast ads aired in House races across the country, ads that painted her as the poster woman for everything wrong in America?

A few years earlier, Fox commentator Bill O'Reilly had proclaimed:

Listen, citizens of San Franciscoif al-Qaida comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead.

An impressive lineup that includes former House Speakers Newt Gingrich and Dennis Hastert has sought to convince the country that San Francisco is an un-American and evil place.

These comments have as much validity as the suggestions that all those who voted for Donald Trump are racists.

That is, we are bombarded with a whole lot of crap.

However, these ad hominem attacks that is, attacks directed against individuals rather than the positions they are maintaining do serve to illustrate how far off track our country has gone. They can help us understand the sources and bases of the toxic and hate-inducing views that have replaced dialog about the real issues facing us.

Let's review America's complex and sometimes conflicting values, and trace how San Francisco values, like other American values, are family-friendly, equality-based, and patriotic. Examine with us the range of sometimes surprising truths that span the nation's political spectrum. Remember that we have been a society that has often managed to find middle ground for addressing problems facing us, and that we can function that way again as we move forward. Consider how the Action Steps delineated at the end of each chapter can help each of us realistically evaluate our fundamental issues before going to the polls.

The U.S. refugee and asylee population paid $63 billion more in taxes than they received in benefits to all levels of government from 2005 to 2014.

U.S Department of Health and Human Services

The overriding impact of immigrants is to strengthen and enrich American culture, increase the total output of the economy, and raise the standard of living of American citizens.

David Bier and Alex Nowrasteh, Cato Institute

Embracing cultural distance, cultural-distance nationalism, means, in effect, taking the position that our country will be better off with more whites and fewer non-whites.

Amy Wax, University of Penn Law School Professor; Graduate of Yale, Harvard Medical School, and Columbia Law School

Values are a society's collective ideas of right and wrong, good and bad, desirable and undesirable behaviors.

Values can be

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