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Hail to G. W. Bush - the Robber Baron?
The Harvard Crimson ^ | Wednesday, April 06, 2005 | YOSHI TSURUMI - Bush's former business prof.

Posted on 04/06/2005 12:26:45 PM PDT by rface

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To: rface

This idiot teaches business? Why doesn't he discuss how corrupt GOVERNMENT is? Businesses don't gas millions of people, businesses don't execute people in concentration camps - governments do.

The bar for intellectual thought on the left is at an all time low. Next thing you know, some nut job at the Univ of Colorado will start railing against America and claim he's an Indian.


21 posted on 04/06/2005 12:39:52 PM PDT by GianniV
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To: rface

Has anyone got a CV on the Professor that shows if he ever made a dollar in his life doing anything except lecturing Gen X'r students about how to run a business, probably making money as a "consultant" by selling his business students' class projects...and, of course, working with Kitty Kelley on the fictional work "The Unauthorized Biography of the Bush Family"?


22 posted on 04/06/2005 12:39:58 PM PDT by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: rface
To privatize Social Security, he is peddling a colossal lie about its solvency.
What, did Bush claim that Social Security was solvent while I wasn't looking?

Social Security is predicated on the conceit that the federal government has unbounded creditworthiness. If that is true, then the government IOUs in the Social Security Trust Fund are as good as gold. But if the government is already spending as much money as it can raise, and/or if it will have unanticipated expenses in the future, having those government IOUs in the "trust fund" is as silly as if you or I wrote an IOU for a trillion dollars and put it in a safe and claimed we were rich.


23 posted on 04/06/2005 12:40:10 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters but PR.)
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To: rface

This guy is lying. Well, we knew that. Specifically though about him remembering stuff that Bush said or did 35+ years ago.

What I want all of you to do, think back to a teacher you had 20+ years ago, or in fact anyone from that time. Can you remember what they said other than vague impressions?

Someone should check Ws transcript and find out if he ever even took this wanker's classes.


24 posted on 04/06/2005 12:41:58 PM PDT by Malsua
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To: Sundog
Believe it or not, I was actually a good student in his class.

He lost his mind long ago, he now has delusions of grandeur, sypntoms of paranoia, irrational problems seperating fiction from reality, and the inability to deal with outside issues unrelated to his obsession to Bush.

I told the executive director from the progran that his mental health was deteriorating, I would hope they would have helped him.

25 posted on 04/06/2005 12:42:08 PM PDT by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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To: rface
Yoshi Tsurumi is a professor of international business at Baruch College. He earned his Doctor of Business Administration from Harvard in 1968, and he taught at Harvard Business School from 1972 to 1976.

Hmmm...looks like even Harvard found this guy to be a nut and cut him loose without tenure. Says a lot.

26 posted on 04/06/2005 12:43:09 PM PDT by Rokurota (.)
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To: bonfire

Bush is the first president of the United States with a Master’s of Business Administration (MBA).

This must be a typo. All I hear from the MSM is how dumb W is.


27 posted on 04/06/2005 12:43:42 PM PDT by Lets Roll NOW
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To: Malsua
Someone should check Ws transcript and find out if he ever even took this wanker's classes.

I'd also like to know what W. got for grade....if he got an "A" Id' say that's good - and if he got a "D", I'd say "that's good" too.

28 posted on 04/06/2005 12:43:56 PM PDT by rface ("...the most schizoid freeper I've ever seen" - Ashland, Missouri)
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To: Terpfen
Professor, if George W. Bush, as your student, was so dumb as to not understand the material you lectured on, why did you pass him?

I had this professor and asked him the same question, I got several different answers, but my favorite was that he tried, but that Bush did his homework and passed his tests (out of spite no doubt).

He made it sound like Bush was evil for just doing his class work.

29 posted on 04/06/2005 12:43:58 PM PDT by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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To: buwaya
I get the impression he doesn't think much of scientific approaches to economics.

Try having him for a class. He almost sounds like math is evil.

30 posted on 04/06/2005 12:45:36 PM PDT by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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To: Rokurota
Hmmm...looks like even Harvard found this guy to be a nut and cut him loose without tenure. Says a lot.

Either that or he left Harvard to teach at the prestigious Baruch College....

31 posted on 04/06/2005 12:47:03 PM PDT by Always Right
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To: rface
"Last year, due to Bush’s tax cuts, over 80 of America’s most profitable 200 corporations did not pay even a penny of their federal and state income taxes."

Businesses have never paid a cent in taxes; only collected same from their investors, consumers or employees. This statement alone belies a fundamental mis-understanding of the incidence of corporate taxation and clearly demonstrates this guy knows NOTHING about the real world.
32 posted on 04/06/2005 12:47:13 PM PDT by Conservative Goddess (Veritas vos Liberabit, in Vino, Veritas....QED, Vino vos Liberabit)
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To: GianniV
This idiot teaches business? Why doesn't he discuss how corrupt GOVERNMENT is?

Government is only corrupt when people he does not like runs it.

He lost his mind long ago, and I say this with first hand knowledge of knowing the man and having been his student last year.

33 posted on 04/06/2005 12:47:16 PM PDT by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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To: rface
President Bush was my student at Harvard Business School. In my class, he called former president Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904, a “socialist” and spoke against Social Security, unemployment insurance, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and other New Deal innovations

Sounds correct to me. In fact, this Bush of this late 60s classroom sounds more like a true conservative than the one we have now!

34 posted on 04/06/2005 12:49:57 PM PDT by RockinRight (Conservatism is common sense, liberalism is just senseless.)
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To: Malsua
Specifically though about him remembering stuff that Bush said or did 35+ years ago.

He does remember Bush, unlike his articles, he has told his some of his students (including me, I had him last year) why he remembers him.

When Bush first came to Harvard, he had a grudge against Bush, Yoshi followed politics and hated and loathed Bush's dad, so he went after Dubya, in class, often, he tried to persecute the kid.

Bush passed his class, and did not roll over for him, it still angers him, that the student he wanted to fail, who would not renounce his father, who had conservative opinions, is now the President of the United States.

By the way, the guy has since lost his mind, and is pretty much a person with a serious mental illness and deteriorating mental health condition.

35 posted on 04/06/2005 12:51:26 PM PDT by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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Quote: Under the Bush Administration, comparable CEOs have come to give themselves 600 to 1,000 times larger annual compensations than their rank-and-file employees whose pay has stagnated. To pay for such self-dealt compensations, corporate aristocrats layoff their workers, cut ordinary employees’ health benefits, and outsource jobs abroad. Under the Bush Administration, over five million Americans have lost their health benefits, and the U.S. has lost over 2.7 million quality manufacturing jobs.


I agree with this. Read USA Today last week about pay for top 100 corp ceo's. Guy from United Technologies gets $98 million per year while laying off employees and outsourcing.

Carla Fioni(sic) screwed up Hewlett Packard financially and received a $21 million dollar severence package. Should have got a boot up her backside.


36 posted on 04/06/2005 12:51:29 PM PDT by superiorslots
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To: rface

This guy is so credible and has such credentials, he had to go to the Harvard Student paper to get 'published'.


37 posted on 04/06/2005 12:51:32 PM PDT by Always Right
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To: Mark in the Old South

Explain further.

I'm not flaming, I have my beefs with W. Just want to know more about your statement.


38 posted on 04/06/2005 12:52:14 PM PDT by RockinRight (Conservatism is common sense, liberalism is just senseless.)
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To: rface
I'd also like to know what W. got for grade....if he got an "A" Id' say that's good - and if he got a "D", I'd say "that's good" too.

C+, with teacher trying to fail him because of his dad.

39 posted on 04/06/2005 12:52:32 PM PDT by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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To: Sonny M

If that old fart had known GWB would be a President one day....and a conservative capitalist...he'd would've failed him...too funny...


40 posted on 04/06/2005 12:52:48 PM PDT by shield (The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God!!!! by Dr. H. Ross, Astrophysicist)
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