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This year's push for austerity, though, goes against the grain of most modern development strategies. Essentially, the IMF is telling the world's poorest countries to tighten their belts by cutting government deficits, raising exports, and keeping up payments on a morass of debts to Western banks. These conservative edicts seem to be inspired more by frustration with past approaches--which resulted in negligible growth and huge debts for most of the Third World--than by any renaissance in development economics. Even President Reagan has discovered that economic growth rarely takes place without extensive deficit spending by the government...
Thanks to a drought-induced shortage of corn and grain, some of America's pigs and cows have had their diets "upgraded"-changed, anyway...
Against the Grain...
...support standing up to Russians by cutting off shipments of grain and high technology, it may cause a small sacrifice on our part, but what does it take to finally spur us into taking action that would check such Soviet atrocities--another massacre of 269 innocent individuals? Only in this way will the Soviet Union realize it can't shatter any and all human rights institutions with impunity. Let's stand up to this bully and make our schoolyard safer for all Christopher...
Logic lies on the side of the government; the numbers permit no appeal. But love, a formidable counterforce, lies on the side of babies. Even now, China cannot feed its newly swollen cities; 15 million tons of imported grain were needed last year...