William Greider
William Greider
William Harold Greider is an American journalist and author who writes primarily about economics...
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CountryUnited States of America
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If everyone has to be a watchdog in order to make government work, then the foxes will also volunteer to serve.
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A newly elected representative quickly discovers that his job in government-aside from making new laws-is to act as a broker, middleman, special pleader and finagler.
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The present struggle seems less about abolishing big government than about who gets to use it.
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Aside from sending someone to war or to prison, government s ability to make people involuntarily give over their money is its strongest exercise of authority over private citizens and their institutions.
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The scandalous question that hangs over modern government and excites perpetual outrage is about political money and what it buys. What exactly do these contributors get in return for the hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars they funnel to the politicians?
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Conceivably, we could be witnessing the start of a break from the era of US-led globalization in which Washington preached unfettered trade to the rest of the world.
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Modern Americans are remarkably capable people, skillful and inventive in many ways, but they are not so good at talking to one another across their vast differences of social class and economic status.
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The US financial position is rapidly deteriorating, due mainly to America's persistent and growing trade deficit. US ambitions to run the world, in other words, are heavily mortgaged. Like any debtor who borrows more year after year with no plausible way to reverse the trend, a nation sinking deeper into debt enters into an adverse power relationship with its creditors -- greater and greater dependency.
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Nevertheless, I resist cynicism and continue to believe in the possibilities for genuine democracy.
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As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed.
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In this country you can say aloud or publish just about anything you like.
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Animal-rights advocates remind us of this admonition: The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another.
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The Democrats should concentrate instead on how to spend money - lots of it - in smart, socially useful ways that help struggling wage earners.
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A recent survey in Wisconsin found that only 6 percent of citizens believe their elected representatives serve the public interest.