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Franklin Roosevelt's Administration started farm aid in response to the Dust Bowl and the Depression, calling it "a temporary solution to deal with an emergency." But in Washington, the emergency has never ended. The government still gives farmers your money--more than ever over the past decade--along with research projects to expand their yields, restoration projects to clean up their messes, flood-control and irrigation projects to protect and enhance their land, visa programs to supply them with cheap labor, ethanol mandates and tariffs to boost their prices, and tax breaks by the bushel...
Bloomberg, who earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1966, cited the New York City medical examiner’s finding that Zadroga had died of drug abuse, not from inhaling dust at the attack site...
Zadroga died at the age of 34 in January 2006 from severe respiratory problems. An initial autopsy attributed his death to the toxic dust created by the collapse of the towers...
...analysts say the key to Juba's future prosperity is the prevention of corruption and the mismanagement of oil money. The southern government also has to find non-oil sources of revenue and to repair broken-down infrastructure. South Sudan literally has to build a nation from dust and rubble. It has yet to implement a system of income taxes and trade duties to regulate the economy. Still, Juba's potential is radiating beyond its borders, and a bustling cross-country trade is under way, as newly certified businessmen from Kenya and Uganda flood in, eyeing the oil riches...
...then they can eventually ban the politically controversial. Such a move would lead to an even greater suppression of free speech, and is one against which we caution. We commend the New York legislature for its zeal in fighting racism, but as for this bill, we hope it collects dust on a shelf in Albany...