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Sat 09 Sep 2008'Free enterprise for the poor, socialism for the rich': Vidal's claim gains leverage
WORLD VIEW:Growing social inequality in the US puts the economy back at the centre of the presidential campaign, writes Paul Gillespie
IN THE 1980s Gore Vidal observed of Reagonomics: "The US government prefers that public money go not to the people but to big business. The result is a unique society in which we have free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich."
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