Ending The Good Times – Exporting America's High-Wage Jobs
By: Paul Craig Roberts|29 April, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: export paulcraigroberts.org
During the first 27 months of the Bush administration, the U.S. economy has lost 2.6 million private sector jobs. Much of this loss is from the fall in profits and subsequent downsizing after the high-tech bust. Some lost jobs, however, are from a new development: America’s export of high-wage jobs to low-wage countries. The collapse of the Soviet Union, China’s…
Read more »VDARE.com: 04/25/03 – Insight on the News – Symposium
By: Paul Craig Roberts|25 April, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: insight . symposium
Published on VDARE.com on April 26, 2003 Insight on the News – Symposium April 29,2003
Read more »Gun Control: The Criminal Lobby
By: Paul Craig Roberts|22 April, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: paul craig roberts gun control
In Democracy by Decree, recently published by Yale University Press, New York Law School professors Ross Sandler and David Schoenbrod show how the plaintiff’s bar and judges have used consent decrees to take government away from elected officials. Two recent books by the Manhattan Institute’s Walter K. Olson and the National Rifle Association’s Wayne LaPierre show how class action…
Read more »The Growing Problem Of Wrongful Conviction
By: Paul Craig Roberts|15 April, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: wrongfully convicted statistics graphs
Published on VDARE.com – April 15, 2003 The Independent Review |Volume 7, Number 4, [PDF] The execution of an innocent person cannot be remedied. This fact, together with mounting evidence of innocents on death row, has strengthened opposition to the death penalty. Nevertheless, the death penalty has proved to be a divisive issue. The divide between liberals and conservatives on…
Read more »Democracy's Serfs
By: Paul Craig Roberts|14 April, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: paul craig capital gains
Now that you have paid your income taxes, calculate how much you own of your own labor. You can do this by dividing the federal, state and local income taxes you paid (including Social Security and Medicare) by your taxable income. Generally speaking, the higher your income, the less you own of yourself. A person with $300,000 in taxable income…
Read more »Abolishing America, cont'd: Consent Decree Coup
By: Paul Craig Roberts|08 April, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: America . Consent . Coup . Decree
While American neoconservatives use “the war on terror” to impose democracy on the Middle East, two New York Law School professors urge us to rescue democracy here at home. In a newly released book from Yale University Press, Democracy by Decree, Ross Sandler and David Schoenbrod show how the plaintiff’s bar and judges have used consent decrees to take government…
Read more »The Causes of Wrongful Conviction
This article by Paul Craig Roberts appeared in the Spring 2003 issue of The Independent Review. The execution of an innocent person cannot be remedied. This fact, together with mounting evidence of innocents on death row, has strengthened opposition to the death penalty. Nevertheless, the death penalty has proved to be a divisive issue. The divide between liberals and conservatives…
Read more »Iraq Invasion Dooms Saddam – But Also Bush, Blair, GOP, Neocons
Despite stiff and unexpected Iraqi resistance, the U.S. invasion of Iraq is likely to succeed in toppling Saddam Hussein—and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, President Bush, the Republican Party, and American neoconservatives. Wars have unintended consequences as well as unexpected developments. The White House, the Pentagon, our troops, and the public were surprised that Saddam Hussein did not “collapse after…
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