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(1939- ) Economist, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration (“Father of Reaganomics”), former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Scripps Howard News Service.

Political ‘compassion’

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

Author Greg RavenPosted on May 23, 2016November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories politics, socialism, welfareTags Paul Craig Roberts

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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