The Evil Empire by Paul Craig Roberts

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The Republic of Fools
The Evil Empire by Paul Craig Roberts

"The US government is now so totally under the thumbs of organized interest groups that 'our' government can no longer respond to the concerns of the American people who elect the president and the members of the House and Senate. Voters will vent their frustrations over their impotence on the president, which implies a future of one-term presidents. Soon our presidents will be as ineffective as Roman emperors in the final days of that empire. Obama is already set on the course to a one-term presidency. He promised change, but has delivered none. ... In place of health care for Americans, there will be more profits for private insurance companies. In place of peace there will be more war."

You can read the article at: http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts11062009.html

[Ghost Dog]

1. k&r. I do wish more people could distinguish a little between

the (already imperfect) Roman Republic and the (outright damnable) despotic dictatorial and essentially senseless Imperial Enterprise it became, and to which some of my (personal family history - Celtic and Gothic) people are not at all ashamed to have delivered the coup de grâce.

[TygrBright]

2. Locking

Paul Craig Roberts is linked to the hate site vdare, and is not regarded as a reliable source of anything but offensive assertions, here on Democratic Underground.

explicatorially,
Bright