These special interests included Wall Street, Big Oil, the big health insurers, and arms manufacturers. They demanded tax cuts, and got them; they demanded a rollback of environmental protection, and got it; they demanded, and received, the right to attack unions; and they demanded lucrative government contracts, even for paramilitary operations, and got those, too.
这些特殊利益包括华尔街、大石油公司、大人寿保险商以及军火商。它们要求减税，得到了满足；它们要求不要纠结于环境保护，得到了满足；它们要求并获得了打击工会的权利；它们还要求诱人的政府合同甚至经营准军事活动，也得到了满足。