From: pmahler@StarConn.com (Paul Mahler)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.elections
Subject: Perot very clear on issues
Date: 10 Apr 92 04:44:19 GMT
Organization: Starnet-Public Access UNIX--Los Altos, CA  415-949-3133


Someone wrote:

>If you are asking this question you have missed the whole point of
>Perot.  He has no views.  His electronic town hall offloads the
>resposibility of having any views.  So who needs Perot.  Any babbling
>idiot will do.  That's his ticket.  The babbling idiot platform.  No
>matter what they ask him, he says "That's our highest priority!"  With
>the state of American management, and this guy being one of their big
>ones, how can anybody take him serious.  You might as well vote for
>Mickey Mouse or Winnie the Poo.

This statement could not possibly be less informed or more incorrect.
I signed up for Perot's campaign because he has very clear views and he
is not scared to tell them to America.

For those of you who missed the PBS news hour report where Mr. Perot spoke,
or haven't heard him in any other forum, the man has very clear views; 
to the point of being blunt.

First, I find it amazing to find someone knocking the idea of an
electronic forum ON THE NET! Nets don't work? Then what are we
doing here?

The electronic town hall might even put the representation back in our
representative democracy. An electronic town hall may allow us to take
our government back from the special interest groups.

Mr. Perot's overriding concern is the state of the economy. In 
particular, the four billion dollars of debt that 
we Americans are burdened with.  

Mr. Perot pointed out in his PBS interview that over 60% of this debt is 
in short term instruments, bills and notes, that fall due within the 
next 10 years. As he said, every American should get down on his knees 
and pray each night that the Japanese and Germans continue to roll over 
this debt as it comes due.  The current free-fall in the Japanese stock 
market could very well bring bring this problem home to roost this year.

The current and recent governments, republican and democrat, have 
spent the nation into the poor house. This year's Federal deficit will
exceed four hundred billion dollars.

The politicians have spent all our money. When they ran out of our 
money they started spending Japan and Germany's money. At the
current rate of increase of the deficit, within 10 years 100% of
government revenues will have to go to debt service. 

Mr Perot made AMAZINGLY clear the primary problem we face as
a nation.  Mr. Perot is willing to attack this issue head on. None of
the other candidates will even talk about it. As Mr. Perot said, if he
were Mr. Bush and he could get away with sweeping this issue under the
rug, he would too. The only candidate who was willing to talk about the
problem, Sen. Rudman, had to resign to make his point.

Mr. Perot made it abundantly clear that no other problems can be
funded until this problem is fixed.

Later he spoke about the problems with our health care systems. 
He said he would find experts in health care to study the problem. 
These experts would be chartered to examine our health system, 
and every other health system in the world.  From these studies he 
would establish four pilot programs. If one of these programs proved 
successful he would move on implementing one of them.  As he said, 
this seems to make more sense than moving directly from a dumb idea 
to over funding to failure. 

This is a very clear, very intelligent approach to a very difficult
problem. It is a much more intelligent and honest answer than we hear
from any of the other candidates. This approach might even lead to 
a program that works. 

As the recent resignation of Sen. Rudman demonstrates, government is
being held hostage to special interests. Perot, as President,
will not dance to the tunes of special interests. Again, his record in
Texas working with education makes it clear that he will fight special
interests when it is for the good of the state or the the good of 
the nation.

It is very difficult to find the answers to hard questions on half hour
news programs. The clear views of Mr. Perot will be clearly
communicated over the coming months. As you listen and probe, I think
you will find that Mr. Perot will offer our nation far greater hope
than the other major candidates.
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