A Lifelong Democrat (myself) says Nader Should Be Our Candidate

I rarely read this magazine but I had to share these excerpts from an interview with Ralph Nader conducted by Pat Buchanan:

 

June 21, 2004 issue
Copyright © 2004 The American Conservative

 

RN: ....Giant multinational corporations have no allegiance to any country or community other than to control them or abandon them. So what we have now is the merger of big business and big government to further subsidize costs or eliminate risks or guarantee profits by our government.

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RN: ... As long as our foreign policy supports dictators and oligarchs, you are going to have desperate people moving north over the border.

Part of the problem involves NAFTA. The flood of cheap corn into Mexico has dispossessed over a million Mexican farmers, and, with their families, they either go to the slums or, in their desperation, head north...

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RN: I don’t believe in giving visas to software people from the Third World when we have got all kinds of unemployed software people here. ...