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Harvard B-School Alums Blast Bush Tax Man

This post from pat208 at Daily Kos is an incredible view of the response of Harvard Business School alums to the number one economic advisor Grover Norquist, head of Americans for Tax Reform:

Michael Hogan, an '88 MBA alum said:

In fact, we are the victims of an administration promoted by Mr. Norquist that pursues a set of foreign and domestic policies with an implicit taxpayer burden of historic proportions, but which he would have someone else, that is, our children and grandchildren, pay for. That's what passes for "family values" according to Mr. Norquist and his cronies. It's high time we call a spade a spade - Mr. Norquist wants a first-class physical and economic infrastructure, the military to support a sole superpower status, and someone else to pay for it. My HBS expected a higher standard of intellectual honesty and rigor.

Fran Henry, an '82 MBA alum said:

[Norquist and the ATR] paint a chilling picture of our future society...Middle-class children no longer have what I had as a child: small classes, and arts and music programs. If his work continues to succeed, more resources will be concentrated in the already-wealthy population. The shared community value of helping disadvantaged people will be debunked.

Uwe Lembke, a '61 MBA alum said:

The opinions expressed by Grover Norquist and especially the way they are presented remind me of the writings of a late politician who suggested that the intellectual content of propaganda must be targeted at the lowest common denominator of the population in terms of intelligence. In other words, the subtlety of the message declines in direct proportion to the number of people the slogan is attempting to reach. "The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous." In case you're wondering, that quote is from Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf."

Concluding with John Sweeney, a '69 alum that began these letters to the Harvard Business School organ:

The contrast between the two 1981 MBA graduates profiled in the June issue could not be more profound. [One] is working with UNICEF in Sudan to alleviate the suffering of impoverished Sudanese children. Grover Norquist is working with the Republican Party in the US to eliminate government expenditures on health care, education and Social Security... To continue on the past espoused by Norquist and his cohorts is to sow the seeds of destruction of democracy. It is creating an American aristocracy callous to the human condition. We cannot expect to foster democracy in Iraq and other places abroad if we do not set an example of democracy's compassion for all its citizens here in the United States.

Read the full post.

posted by niteskolar @ 10:19 PM