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...past decade, and by many measures they have changed the nation as much as did the clamorous '60s kids. These corporate chiefs are activists in society and politics, for they know that no company is an island; none can prosper for long if the country is unsound...
Western diplomats depend on unsound hypotheses that involve supposed "left" and "right" factions of the Politburo, when, in reality, all of its members are united in seeking world conquest and are undiscriminating in the means they use. Insofar as struggles do occur within the Politburo, they are purely personal; they cannot be used for diplomatic leverage. The average Soviet citizen, deprived though he is of information about the world and of the benefits of Western Kremlinology, understands this perfectly well. Illiterate Afghan herdsmen are equally on target when they burn portraits of Marx and Lenin, instead of accepting the tale...
...Westigard rightly points out that TVA still depends on coal and nuclear power for most of its energy. However, while I did not intend to imply that the TVA had ceased to rely on environmentally unsound sources of energy, I do stand by my contention that the new directors appointed by President Carter, David Freeman and Richard Freeman, are attempting to restore to the TVA some of its more people-oriented goals, along the lines of the land reclamation projects of the 1930s. (I did not contend in the article that the TVA had evidenced any commitment to the land...
...more for personal identity by the combatants than real evaluation of where we are headed. The AFL-CIO's George Meany stormed that the whole budget was an attack on "average Americans." Former Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Wilbur Cohen called the small adjustments in Social Security "tragic, unsound." And by the end of the week, Congress's Black Caucus had declared the budget "immoral." Each critic seemed blindfolded, feeling a leg of the elephant and calling it a tree...
Everybody worries about how big the tax load is. Isn't anybody worrying about how badly the tax load is distributed? Doesn't anyone think an unjust and unsound tax system might be the cause rather than the result of an economy sick with inflation and unemployment...