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...only does indiscriminate invocation of Third Reich imagery trivialize the evil of the Holocaust, it justifies injustice and often represents slander. The most egregious misuse of the Holocaust analogy is the comparison, on any level, of Jesse Jackson with Adolf Hitler...
Rather than trying to re-create the web of regulations and subsidies that once supported rural America, federal policy should concentrate on helping rural areas compete in the new global economy. Economist Robert Reich of Harvard University believes that rural America must shift its dependence from production of low-value, high-volume products like grain and simple manufactured goods to high-tech manufacturing and services. To make that transition, business and government would have to pump more money into rural schools, hospitals, roads and other infrastructure. Says Van Hook: "We have to make some investments in rural America...
Investment in rural America would pay off, says Reich, who believes that small towns will offer opportunities in the next century as urban centers become more congested: "The new economy toward which we're evolving operates on a smaller scale and is far better suited to rural environments. But unless we remove the present barriers to rural America's economic transition, more and more of us will find ourselves packed ever more tightly together...
...pseudo science whose followers thought that undesirable traits should be systematically purged from the human gene pool. Believers ranged from the American eugenicists of the early 1900s, who thought humans should be bred like racehorses, to the German geneticists who gave scientific advice to the leaders of the Third Reich, instructing them on how the species might be "purified" by selective breeding and by exterminating whole races at a time...
...Generally speaking, LBOs are quite lucrative for investors," says Reich. But, he adds, "when the market turns sour, it may not be quite so lucrative...