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Comes down. Down from a thousand hill sides, washing the top off of the valley. For 50 years we dug for cotton and moved west when the land gave out. For 50 years we plowed for corn and moved on when the land gave out. We planted and plowed with no regard for the future and 400 million tons of top soil, 400 million tons of our most val valuable resource have been washed into the gulf of mexico every year. And poor land makes poor people. Poor people make poor land. For a quarter of a century, we have been forcing more and more farmers into tenants. 10 are shared croppers down on their knees in...

Growing up without proper food, medical care or schooling, ill clad, il housed and ill fed and in the greatest river valley in the world. There is no such thing as an ideal river in nature but the Mississippi River is out of joint. Dust blowing in the west, floods raging in the east, we have seen these problems growing to alarming extremes. When we first found the great valley, it was 40 forested. Today, for every 100 acres of forest we found, we have ten left. Today 5 of the entire valley is ruined forever for agricultural use. 25 of the top soil has been shoved by the old river into the gulf...

Since 1933, we have subsidized farming in america. Is that a good idea . And who benefits . The small farmer big agribusiness or, at the end of the chain, the consumer . The story of the American Farmer is one of the great ironies of the modern era. Incredibly productive, but frequently unprofitable. Its a story that too often ends like this. Perfect competition and inelastic demand can the farmer make a profit . Economic analyst richard gill and i will examine that question on this edition of economics u a. Im david schoumacher. You can see the forces that control a Farmers Economic wellbeing...

Let me tell you about the project and a lot about San Francisco and by the end of this, youre going to feel like you have been buried about the new deal. I am only scratching the surface. I havent even gotten through it. Its terrific. I recommend that is supplementary reading. Homework assignment that you have to do that. I am going to tell you about the living new deal project and a lot of stuff that got done in San Francisco and various other places as well, too. We have to really learn from the last Great Depression. Because, in fact, we might be having another one soon. The Great Depressio...

Panel or the second one. But i think that this joint plan of action and the diplomatic effort of the administration give us a historic opportunity we cant afford to put a cross on. The joint plan of action and the interim agreement, with in my view from analyzing it and reading analysis done by many who are smarter than me that slows and reverses aspects with not all aspects but critical aspect of the Iranian Nuclear program, which sanctions alone has not been able to do. And it also provides this country and our partners and all of our allies and the entire world a better Early Warning system...