From: x1sdup@esparc19.webo.dg.com (Stephen Dupre)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.perot
Subject: UNITED WE STAND - The next step
Date: 6 Nov 92 20:57:11 GMT
Reply-To: Stephen_Dupre@DGC.ceo.dg.com
Distribution: usa
Organization: Westboro, MA

I think now that the election is over, we need to focus on
staying informed as a group.  I, for one, would like to see
an "infomercial" about every three months or so from Ross
to cut through legislative BS (and media bias on reporting
- or not reporting - issues).  Some suggested topics:

1.  The deficit and debt and how Clinton is doing relative to his plan.

2.  The status of jobs, factory output and so on.

3.  Other high-profile (but media ignored) issues such as high-tech
    or US dominated industry performance against our competitors.
    Are trade agreements working?  Are people losing their jobs?
    Who are the foreign lobbyists testifying for/against certain
    Bills in Congress?

4.  Status of Campaign reform - another issue on voters minds.
    Personally, I'm for leveling the playing field.  If an independent
    must get 50,000 signatures, so should the democrats and republicans.
    This is a democracy - democracies aren't supposed to EXCLUSIVE but
    INCLUSIVE.

5.  TRUE unemployment numbers.  The accounting has changed since Reagan
    added in the military and stopped counting people who've given up
    looking.  In pre-Reagan accounting, a 9.5% unemployment rate in
    California is really ~13.5% or 4% greater.  You THOUGHT there were
    more people out of work than the government said - you're right.
 
    (by the way, can someone define to me what "job growth" in the 
    Arkansas chicken industry means? (Bill Clintons' proud assertion)
    It seems to be a contradiction in terms - but I digress...
    

I think a national newsletter is probably a good idea as well.  
Maybe a bi-monthly or quarterly one.  A 10 page newsletter could
probably be produced for $10-15/yr membership into United We Stand to
defray publishing costs - keep costs low - information content high.
Perot now has a giant database to use to keep us informed. 

I've COMPLETELY lost faith in the biased media - who, by the way are 
responsible for electing Clinton president.  NBC, CBS, ABC and even CNN.
C-SPAN was probably the only unbiased source but who has time to tape
and watch 16 hours of congressional hearings?  Hopefully, United We Stand
and its newletter will be the people's governmental "Readers Digest".

Even MacNeil/Lehrer had people on name-calling the candidates.  These
so-called talking heads shouldn't have any more credibility than anybody 
else (last I knew they could only vote once each - like us).  The fact they
are given airtime on national TV to spew their opinions of the candidates
cheapens the whole "journalistic process".   The secret of advertising is
people remember the message long after they forget the messenger...  That's
the problem with modern "journalism" and the reason we must look to other
more objective sources of information that will look after our interests.  
Now then..... Ross, let's talk airtime and newsletters...


"Does this person have the experience to tackle these complicated issues
when the best he could do in 12 years was expand the chicken business in
Arkansas?"   -  Ross Perot

Good luck Bill - and rest assured, you'll always be "Mr. Bill" in
my book...  Oh noooooo!!!!!!!!
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