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...land is under cultivation. Experts also cite antique farming methods. In Venezuela, primitive farms produce an average of two bushels of corn per acre, compared with 67 bushels on modern U.S. farms. Traditionally, holders of large estates do not cultivate more than necessary to earn an income suitable to their social status. But, as Bolivia and Mexico have discovered, land-reform programs that carve up productive estates into family-sized plots for often unskilled peasants generally lead to sharp drops in food output...
There was even some overdue debate on the pros and cons of 14(b). Union membership as a condition of employment, argued Dirksen, limits a man's right to earn a living. Said he: "After all the noise and detonations in this chamber about the right to vote, that right cannot compare with the right to work, because inherent in it is the right of survival." Nonsense, replied Tennessee Democrat Ross Bass: "The American worker is never led into a box or into a factory where he has to work. He has the free right of working there...
Pretty Dreary Sin. The Government laboratories' good pay scales-professionals average $12,000 and 72% of other employees earn more than $5,000 a year-also make poverty unknown in Los Alamos. Most families have two cars and could afford better housing if it were available. Because of their comfortable incomes, uniform backgrounds and treelined, planned neighborhoods, some Los Alamos citizens have referred to their community as "a suburb without...
Going a step beyond charity, the 12th century Spanish-Jewish philosopher, Maimonides, urged the well to do to "assist the reduced fellow by teaching him a trade or putting him in the way of business so that he may earn an honest livelihood." Queen Elizabeth I came to believe that care of the poor is not the duty of just the rich or the church but also of the state. "Paupers are everywhere!" she cried after a tour of England, and her Parliament sped up passage of its poor-relief acts. Just about then, Calvin declared that idleness...
...surprised any more that a man can earn a six-figure income merely by knocking a little white ball around the grass. Two years ago, Arnie Palmer took home a record $128,230 in official earnings. But the big man now is Jack Nicklaus, the king of the links, and he only has to work at it for ten months of the year...