[lbo-talk] Bush at Harvard

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Mar 5 15:31:14 PST 2004


<http://www.glocom.org/opinions/essays/20040301_tsurumi_president/>

President George Bush and the Gilded Age

Yoshi Tsurumi (Professor of International Business, Baruch College, the City University of New York)

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At Harvard Business School, thirty years ago, George Bush was a student of mine. I still vividly remember him. In my class, he declared that "people are poor because they are lazy." He was opposed to labor unions, social security, environmental protection, Medicare, and public schools. To him, the antitrust watch dog, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Securities Exchange Commission were unnecessary hindrances to "free market competition." To him, Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was "socialism."

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