Abolishing America, Cont'd: Immigrants In, IT Jobs Out
By: Paul Craig Roberts|25 February, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: America . Immigrants . Jobs
Do you remember those Information Technology (IT) jobs that were going to take the place in the “new economy” of those outsourced manufacturing jobs? Don’t bother to retrain. The IT jobs are leaving, too. Knowledge work can be done anywhere there are educated people. These days that’s just about everywhere: the Philippines, India, China, Russia, Eastern Europe, Costa Rica, and…
Read more »An Immigration Dictatorship
By: Paul Craig Roberts|18 February, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Dictatorship . Immigration
Are democracies democratic? Or do elites determine political outcomes regardless of majority opinion? Look at last weekend’s massive anti-war rally in London. Random interviews with participants revealed that many were first time marchers who were protesting not merely war, but Prime Minister Blair’s habit of running roughshod over British opinion. Marchers oppose Blair going to war against Iraq without a…
Read more »The Union That Killed Education
By: Paul Craig Roberts|13 February, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: sitepaulcraigroberts.org education
If you have a child in public school, you need to read The Worm in the Apple: How the Teachers Unions Are Destroying American Education, a new book by Peter Brimelow. Public schools are run by the National Educational Association. They are not run by people you can hold accountable, such as teachers, superintendents and school boards. The NEA opposes…
Read more »New Economy: Was It All Hype?
By: Paul Craig Roberts|04 February, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: corrupt society . electric skillet . manufacturing jobs . part time jobs . refreshing lack
Was the “new economy” merely hype designed to sell overpriced stocks and globalism? Many Americans think so. “Do something about it,” their e-mail missives urge. That so many Americans still believe that the pen retains its power in our corrupt society governed by organized interest groups indicates a refreshing lack of cynicism. But there is frustration, too, on the part…
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