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Paul Craig Roberts (born April 3, 1939) is an American economist, journalist, blogger, and former civil servant. He is best known as a journalist specializing in economic affairs from an anti-establishment, liberal conservative perspective.

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Washington's Corruption and Mendacity Is What Makes America 'Exceptional'

America, Corruption, Mendacity, Exceptional

The US is not a superpower. The US is a financially dependent country that foreign lenders can close down at will. Washington still hasn’t learned this. American hubris can lead the administration and Congress into a bailout solution that the rest of the world, which has to finance it, might not accept.

Administration, Country, Dependent, Finance, Might, World

Americans have no idea why they have been at war in the Middle East, Asia and Africa for a decade. They don't realize that their liberties have been supplanted by a Gestapo Police State. Few understand that hard economic times are here to stay.

Ideas, Police, Supplanted, Understand, War

Unequal group rights, the politics of redistribution and a Constitution whose meaning varies with changeable coalitions are a recipe for civil war.

Groups, Meaning, Politics, Rights, War

The notion that Americans can be protected from "terror" by giving up the Bill of Rights is absurd. Democrats are complicit in this absurd notion. Many were intimidated into voting for police state legislation, because they lacked the intestinal fortitude to call police state legislation by its own name. The legislation that has been passed during the Bush regime is far more dangerous to Americans than Muslim terrorists.

Americans, Call, Giving Up, Intimidated, Names, Rights

There are now 17,000 local American police forces that are armed with rocket launchers, bazookas, heavy machine guns, all kinds of chemical sprays, in fact some of them have tanks. You now have local police departments that are equipped beyond the standard of American heavy infantry.

17000, Forces, Gun, Historical, Kinds, Police

In U. S. politics, 'compassion' means giving money and privileges to well organized interest groups at everyone else's expense.

Mean, Compassion, Giving Money, Interest, Money

A country whose population has been trained to accept the government's word and to shun those who question it is a country without liberty in its future.

Country, Government, Liberty, Shun, Population, Question

American liberty is being destroyed by Marxist doctrines that explain society in terms of hegemonic and oppressed groups - whether classes, races or genders - fighting for suzerainty. In these societies spun out of Marxist theorizing, good will does not exist, only the material interests of warring groups. Morality resides in the oppressed, but if the oppressed succeed in becoming hegemonic, their claim to moral supremacy evaporates.

Claim, Class, Fighting, Genders, Race, Society

The tax that was supposed to soak the rich has instead soaked America. The beneficiary of the income tax has not been the poor, but big government. The income tax has given us a government bureaucracy that outnumbers the manufacturing work force. It has created welfare dependencies that have entrapped millions of Americans in an underclass that is forced to live a sordid existence of trading votes for government handouts.

America, Big, Created, Government, Income, Underclass

I don’t know why liberals want to disarm the law-abiding population, but I do know that not a single argument proffered stands the light of facts. Armed citizens deter far more crimes than the police, and far more lives are saved by the intended victim being armed than are lost in firearm accidents.

Argument, Deter, Law, Light, Police, Stands

I never believed 9
11, because I had engineering training at GA Tech, and I could tell when a building is being blown up by explosives. Any fool can look at those films and see the buildings aren't falling down, they're blowing up.

Fall, Engineering, Training, Films, See

If our language and culture are not passed on to immigrants, where will they learn to value integrity in government and the rule of law?

Government, Immigrants, Integrity, Law, Rule

When America's creditors consider our behavior they see total fiscal irresponsibility. They see a deluded country that acts as if it is a privilege for foreigners to lend to it, and a deluded country that believes that foreigners will continue to accumulate US debt until the end of time. The fact of the matter is that the US is bankrupt.

Country, Believe, America, Bankrupt, Matter, Total

For reporting a scientific finding, I was called a 'conspiracy theorist. ' Only in America is scientific analysis seen as conspiracy theory and government lies as truth.

America, Government, Government Lies, Lying, Reporting, Theorist

Tariffs protect ill-considered government policies, such as costly regulations and high taxes on labor and capital that make our goods uncompetitive in international markets.

Government, Tariffs, Regulation, Make, Taxes

A true patriot does not confuse government with country. A patriot's loyalty is to his country, and loyalty to country requires holding government accountable.

Confuse, Country, Government, Holding, Loyalty

When the world looks at America, what it sees is an Israeli colony.

America, Looks, World, Colony

The very concept of law that protects us from tyranny has been lost. No longer the people's shield, law has become a weapon in the hands of government.

Become, Government, Hands, Law, Shield, Weapon

Terrorists can endanger some of us, but the war on terror endangers us all. How much more can the Constitution be diminished before it is completely replaced by arbitrary government power?

War, Government, Arbitrary, Replaced, Diminished

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