Thirty years ago, George W. Bush attended the Harvard Business School. It's not clear just what sort of business skills he took away from his time there, considering the current state of the economy, but he does seem to have made an impression on others because of the opinions he brought along with him.

Yoshi Tsurumi (Professor of International Business, Baruch College, the City University of New York ), writes about his memories of teaching Bush:

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.

Sounds like many of the standard complaints that have been made about American society. I wonder how many of these opinions he still holds? I wonder how far he will go in order to change things?

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