Goerge Bush: “the poor are lazy”.
[Another great item from Dave Farber’s IP email list. This man is our President? Scary. Scary that he managed to finagle his way into Harvard Business School! -Thomas]
From: Adam Peake
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 22:33:59
To:dave@farber.net
Subject: George Bush and the Gilded Age — comments by his business school
professor
Dave,
This essay might be of interest “President George Bush and the Gilded
Age” by Professor Yoshi Tsurumi
Professor Tsurumi writes:
‘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.” ‘
Prof. Tsurumi’s video interview:
as well as a summary of his seminar at GLOCOM:
Adam
Adam Peake
GLOCOM Tokyo
