“Negotiating sugar trade in bilateral free trade agreements is a recipe for disaster for the U.S. sugar industry, and it is unnecessary.” IndustryTradeDisasterAgreementSugarUnnecessaryRecipesFree TradeNegotiatingTrade Agreements Author:Kent Conrad
“Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and the millions of American workers they employ.” StatesUnitedMillionsUnited StatesSupportIndustryProtectTradeWorkersAgreementManufacturingFree TradeAmerican WorkersTrade Agreements Author:Dan Kildee
“The genuflection toward 'fairness' is a familiar newsroom piety, in practice the excuse for a good deal of autopilot reporting and lazy thinking but in theory a benign ideal. In Washington, however, a community in which the management of news has become the single overriding preoccupation of the core industry, what 'fairness' has often come to mean is a scrupulous passivity, an agreement to cover the story not as it is occurring but as it is presented, which is to say as it is manufactured.” ThinkingMeanStoriesCommunityDealsPracticeTheoryIndustryNewsIdealsManagementExcuseCoreFamiliarLazyAgreementFairnessPietyPreoccupationBenignPassivityAutopilotLazy Thinking Author:Joan Didion
“Look at what I am proposing, and we [wih Bernie Sanders] have a vigorous agreement here. We both want to reign in the excesses of Wall Street. I also want to reign in the excesses of Johnson Controls that we bailed out when they were an autoparts company, and we saved the auto industry, and now they want to avoid paying taxes.” WantLooksCompanyStreetsWallIndustryTaxesSavedAgreementExcessReignJohnsonVigorousPaying TaxesAuto Industry Author:Hillary Clinton