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.” Recently, President Bush’s Federal Appeals Court Nominee,
California’s Supreme Court Justice Janice Brown, repeated the same
broadside at her Senate hearing. She knew that her pronouncement would please
President Bush and Karl Rove and their Senators. President Bush and
his brain, Karl Rove, are leading a radical revolution of destroying all
the democratic political, social, judiciary, and economic institutions
that both Democrats and moderate Republicans had built together
since Roosevelt’s New Deal…

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