America Is For Aliens
By: Paul Craig Roberts|30 September, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Aliens . America
So you think your government looks out for you? Not nearly as much as it does for aliens. On September 24, Robert Pear reported in the New York Times that the Bush administration has quietly decided to stiff 6 million poor elderly and disabled Americans by denying them Medicare drug benefits. According to the Bush administration, these Americans are already…
Read more »Statement of The Honorable Paul Craig Roberts, Ph.D. Before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission
By: Paul Craig Roberts|29 September, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: paulcraigrobertd
Published on VDARE.com – September 29, 2003 Washington, D.C. – September 25, 2003 Members of the Commission, I appear before you as an independent witness, representing no interest group. I was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy during President Reagan’s first term. I have worked on the Hill for Jack Kemp (I wrote the Kemp-Roth Bill), for the…
Read more »How the Protection of Law Was Lost
By: Paul Craig Roberts|25 September, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: shannon denney stigler nursing
Published on VDARE.com – September 25, 2003 Speech given at the Mont Pélerin Society meeting in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on September 21, 2003. The Enron-era accounting scandals have resulted in new legislation, Sarbanes-Oxley, which imposes criminal liability on the CEO and CFO of corporations with incorrect accounting statements. This reform will have unintended consequences, as have previous reforms. A case can…
Read more »Neo-Jacobins Push For World War IV
By: Paul Craig Roberts|20 September, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: paulcraigroberts.org/ dick cheney
“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” If neoconservatives have their way, Americans will soon be repeating this refrain. The identical lies used to deceive Americans about Iraq are now being recycled to justify invading Syria and Iran. Before exploring this fact, first understand that there is nothing conservative about neoconservatives. Neocons hide behind “conservative”…
Read more »Outsource The Entire Government – Not Just Parks (And Foreign Policy)
By: Paul Craig Roberts|16 September, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: outsource entire government
The Bush Administration wants to privatize the US Park Service. Why stop there? If it is a good idea to privatize the Park Service, it is a good idea to privatize the Interior Department. The gains from a privatized Park Service cannot accrue if the operation remains under the thumbs of government bureaucrats in the Interior Department. Conflicting incentives would…
Read more »Did Airline Deregulation Fail?
By: Paul Craig Roberts|09 September, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: airlines deregulation 3 airlines will survive
Morgan Stanley in its August 15, 2003, report on the airline industry in the U.S. tersely notes: “If an industry produces negative total returns on capital over its entire history, consolidation is inevitable.” Atlanta attorney Dean Booth believes that consolidation is taking us to two mega-airlines, which means a return to regulation. Morgan Stanley’s report certainly points that way. The…
Read more »A Wider War – Unless The Democrats Speak Out
By: Paul Craig Roberts|08 September, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Democrats? . Speak . Unless . Wider
I blame the Democrats for the “war on terror.” I know the neoconservatives planned the conquest of the Middle East long before the events of September 11 gave them an excuse. Internet pundits are familiar with the blueprint for American Empire put together by the neocon think tank, Project for the New American Century. Indeed, everyone in the world seems…
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