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...measure was accepted only after laundry workers (who do not, after all, form much of a voting bloc in most constituencies) were excluded from coverage. The Administration's major triumph came on a measure well calculated to please the constituent-conscious Congressmen. It was a sprawling, $6 billion, pork-barrel housing bill, covering both low-and middle-income groups in both urban and rural areas...
Market nations together are nearly self-sufficient; they produce 90% of the wheat they consume, 70% of the feed grain, 92% of the sugar and 95% of the meat. They actually overproduce pork, potatoes and vegetables. And, as in the U.S., agriculture is everywhere highly protected with state subsidies and price supports...
Meat is only the latest of scarcities under Castro. One by one, the abundant supplies of fish, pork, vegetables, rice, wheat, eggs, such consumer staples as razor blades, toilet paper and soap have disappeared from the shelves. Last month, to fight black-marketing, the government ordered that 15 articles-among them toothpaste, thread, and nursing nipples-would be sold henceforth only in government-designated stores. But what Castro cannot do by fiat is to end his own mismanagement, which has crippled Cuba's economy, or to overcome the stiff U.S. trade embargo, which makes matters very much worse...
...critical intention in the pointless snipes of (say) the civil rights reports: "Surely we are not to suppose that Kennedy believes in the justice of the segregationist position. But if not, we can only conclude that he is deterred by political considerations. He wants to roll his precious pork-barrels through. Or is the author of Profiles In Courage afraid of Lyndon...
...Kennedy Administration, the debacle was a defeat on a major piece of legislation. But Orville Freeman still thought his bill was perfectly sound. Said he in explanation of his defeat: "It was bare bones, with no meat on it. But procedures are never as exciting as the pork barrel...