H. Ross Perot | Independent Candidate for President 1992 and 1996
Why has the U.S. economy failed? The following video was from the last fair Presidential election held in America. The year was 1992, just two weeks prior to a historical U.S. election where an Independent received one in five votes. This was one of the last non-partisan sponsored and managed (League of Women Voters) Presidential debates where real questions came from real people.
The loss of good paying middle-class jobs has fueled massive public and private debt, foreclosures and the economic suffering of the American middle-class. Progressives such as Thom Hartmann are saying, “Ross Perot Was Right.” The pressing modern day question is, What Happened To Ross Perot? and, Will Progressives, Independents and Populists Unite to Save America? The RNC and DNC are 100% corrupt and co-opted by corporate interests (elitist). Stop their insanity, as Bill Moyers said, “Don’t Get Mad, Get Busy!”
“We The People” demand our own (not controlled by the elitist) National Caucus to Reform U.S. Government at every level…
Of course, history has proven Ross Perot wrong.
“But the number that best displays the nonsensical nature of the debate is 66% – the increase in the manufacturing output of American industry since 1993.” [when NAFTA was signed]
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“Put another way, the main job killer of the past 14 years has not been the “giant sucking sound” of jobs going to Mexico, as enunciated by Ross Perot. Rather it has been that giant humming sound of machines replacing humans.”
http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2008/02/our-view…
Remember Michael Moore's movie “Roger & Me”, about all the auto industry jobs that disappeared to Mexico? That was **BEFORE** NAFTA. NAFTA helped level the playing field, and sends a whole lot more exports in the other direction.
It's the same story with Canada. Under NAFTA, the US EXPORTS far more manufactured goods to Canada than it imports. That trade surplus accounts for nearly 600,000 high-paying manufacturing jobs in America, but is hurting Canada.
http://petemurphy.wordpress.com/2009/03/08/us-t…
Meanwhile the U.S. simply overrides NAFTA when it effectively competes with American business – from softwood lumber to durham wheat to livestock to manufactured goods.
What? A debate in which someone is able to present something other than the tired, failed (and totally purchased) ideas floated by Democrats and Republicans?
Ridiculous!
The issue over whether Perot was totally wrong, totally right or somewhere in between is, by the way, not the point. There was a time when when it was possible for third parties to at least compete against the “big boys.” Those times, sadly, have come to a close. The sad thing is that few people seem to care, meaning we'll be pounded with the same, tired rhetoric in the next presidential election and beyond unless folks start giving a damn.