It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe childcare tax credit makes some sense.
More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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