Paul Craig Roberts Quotes

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Paul Craig Roberts

Profession : Economist

Birth : April 3, 1939

The concentration of U.S. income and wealth in the hands of the very rich is a new development in my lifetime.

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Vice is Washington's signature. A fish rots from the head, and Washington has led our country into vice, greed, selfishness, and the mockery and destruction of human life.

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Washington's impulsive use of power is a danger to America and to the world.

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The government, of course, will print money to bail out the banks' uncovered casino bets, but not to bail out the elderly from the theft of their funds.

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Representing the people is not something 'our' representatives do. They are too busy representing a handful of private interest groups such as the financial sector, the military/security complex, and agribusiness.

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The way to attack the entitlements problem is to bring the jobs home. This could be done by taxing corporations according to the location, domestic or foreign, at which they add value to their product.

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If all countries are exceptional, the word loses its meaning.

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A government that cannot survive truth and must resort to stamping out truth is not a government that any country wants.

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The Transatlantic and Transpacific Trade and Investment Partnerships have nothing to do with free trade. 'Free trade' is used as a disguise to hide the power these agreements give to corporations to use lawsuits to overturn sovereign laws of nations that regulate pollution, food safety, GMOs, and minimum wages.

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The office of U.S. Trade Representative was created in order to permit corporations to write law that serves only their interests.

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There are no free financial markets in America or, for that matter, anywhere in the Western word, and few, if any, free markets of any other kind.

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The financial markets are rigged by the big banks, the Federal Reserve, and the Treasury in the interests of the profits of the few big banks and the dollar's exchange value, which is the basis of U.S. power.

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The Soviet Union was a partial check on capitalist looting in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. However, with the Soviet collapse, capitalist looting intensified during the Clinton, Bush, and Obama regimes.

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Corporations and Wall Street in pursuit of short-term profits have given the economy away.

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The American people and the entire world need to understand that the threat to life on earth resides in Washington and that until Washington is fundamentally and totally changed, this threat will remain as the worse threat to life on earth.

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It is impossible to work out a reduction in nuclear threat as long as one side is going all out to demonize the other.

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The propagandistic American 'media' and the crazed neoconservatives have set humanity on the path to destruction.

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I have come to the conclusion that capitalism is successful primarily because it can impose the majority of the costs associated with its economic activities on outside parties and on the environment.

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In the U.S., society and the environment have to pick up the tab produced by capitalist activity.

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If you want to learn real economics instead of neoliberal junk economics, read Michael Hudson's books.

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