From: mike@uunet!tellab5!odgate (Mike J. Kelly)
Subject: Re: Perot very clear on issues
Organization: Odesta Corporation
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 23:02:28 GMT

pmahler@StarConn.com (Paul Mahler) writes:
>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.

>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.

So .. he thinks the deficit is a problem -- now there's something new.
Tell me a politician in the last ten years, Republican or Democrat, who
hasn't SAID exactly what Perot has SAID -- the deficit is a problem.  We
are mortgaging our future.  Etc, Etc, Etc.  The question is, WHAT WOULD
HE DO ABOUT IT?  Well, when he was asked that in his presentation in
front of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, he accused the
questioner of being confrontory.  Then he fell back on that old culprit,
waste and fraud.  That's what Ronald Reagan said twelve years ago --
before he increased the deficit more in four years than all previous
Presidents since Washington had done.

>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. 

Oh a study ..... what a unique, fresh and innovative approach.  This
shows one of Perot's main problems -- he's been so busy making his billions
that he has paid absolutely no attention to anything else going on in
the world.  Does he think that no one else has 'studied' the health care
crisis?  Does he think that Washington is not just full of bookshelves of
such 'studies'?  Or does he just not know what to do so he falls back on
the old politician's standby, the 'study'.  And then the 'pilot
program'.  And by then, it will be time for reelection anyway, so the 37
million Americans without adequate health insurance can just wait for
old Mr. Perot to 'study' their problems.

Tell me honestly -- if this guy didn't have $100 million to spend, why
would anyone take him the slightest bit seriously as a candidate for
State Rep, let alone President?


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