"H. Ross Perot: America's First Welfare Billionaire"
Magazine article
By: Robert Fitch
Date: November 1971
Source: Fitch, Robert. "H. Ross Perot: America's First Welfare Billionaire." Ramparts, November 1971, 43–44, 44–45, 53.
About the Author: Robert Fitch (1938–), a veteran journalist, lecturer, and faculty member at New York University, specializes in the problems of urban America. Fitch authored the well-known 1993 exposé, The Assassination of New York, chronicling in agonizing detail the half-century-long economic, social, political, and cultural decline of the United States' largest city.
Introduction
Private businessmen have often made money over the centuries by furnishing goods and services or by lending money to governments—sometimes for purposes of waging war. Historians note, for instance, that private contractors with inside political and family connections sold supplies to the...
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