If you dump Haiti with rice for 10 years, you ruin the ability for them to have their own rice market.
Rand Paul: “If you dump Haiti with rice for 10 years, you ruin the ability for them to have their own rice market.”
On the recordJanuary 10, 2017
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Discussing the negative effects of aid on local economies.
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