The responsibilities of someone in a more free and open society are, again obviously, greater than those who may pay some cost for honesty and integrity.
Noam ChomskyThe US is to an unusual extent a business-run society, where short-term concerns of profit and market share displace rational planning.
Noam ChomskyI mean, the liberal democrats aren't going to tell the average American, "Yeah, you're being shafted because of the policies that we've established over the years that we're maintaining now." That's not going to be an answer. And they're not getting answers from the left.
Noam ChomskyColombia was a big wheat producer in the 1950's. That was eliminated by what sounds like a nice plan, called "Food for Peace. " It's a plan by which US taxpayers subsidized US agribusiness to send food to poor countries. This, of course, destroyed the domestic agricultural markets of these countries, opening these markets to US agribusiness.
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