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In a chapter titled Is Enron a Metaphor for Bush's Economic Policy? he argues that Bush-style conservatism is pro-business rather than pro-market: In reality, the last thing most businessmen want is a truly free market, which would force them to compete and erode their profits. The combination of middleclass entitlements, corporate welfare, cultural conservatism, and a hawkish foreign policy is a winning formula that has propelled the Republican Party from minority to majority status in the past generation.
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Right to Nowhere
BOOKS RIGHT TO NOWHERE IMPOSTOR: HOW GEORGE W. BUSH BANKRUPTED AMERICA AND BETRAYED THE REAGAN LEGACY BY BRUCE BARTLETT Doubleday, 310 pages, $26.00
EVEN BEFORE IT WAS PUBLISHED, Bruce Bartlett's Impostor had a dramatic effect: It cost Bartlett his job as a policy analyst at a conservative think tank, the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), based in Dallas. Bartlett, a veteran...See the full content of this document
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