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Ross Perot Launches Public Information Website
About U.S. Economic Crisis
PerotCharts.com Illustrates that We Are Running Out Of Time to Stop Deficit Spending
DALLAS, TEXAS - JUNE 16, 2008 /PRNewswire/—Ross Perot, business leader and former presidential candidate, announced today the launch of “PerotCharts.com,” a public information website that contains objective, factual information about the current economic crisis in America. The site is being launched as an alert and appeal for American citizens to inform themselves about federal government spending. Perot said, “The U.S. national debt reached $9.4 TRILLION on April 30, and it is increasing by more than $1 billion every day. We are leaving our children and grandchildren with debt they cannot possibly pay.”
PerotCharts.com consists of three major components: a video featuring Ross Perot discussing the purpose of the website, a blog where new charts and other information are posted daily for study and comment, and a narrated chart presentation explaining the economic problems our country faces.
The website is not affiliated with any political party or candidate. Most of the data and research for the charts is gathered from official government sources.
“The economic crisis facing America today is far greater than anything since the Great Depression,” said Perot. “Our federal government continues to spend us deeper into debt. The American people must get directly involved and demand an end to deficit spending. This website will provide information for citizens to do just that.”
Like the economic charts Perot employed in his 1992 and 1996 presidential campaigns, which served as snapshots of complex economic issues presented in simple terms, PerotCharts.com features the latest official government figures about the real conditions of our economy for everyone to see and consider. The site is designed to be a reservoir of information about the economy, and provides an accurate look at where the money comes from and where it goes.
David Walker, former U.S. Comptroller General and current president and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation said, “Ross Perot is the father of fiscal charts, and PerotCharts.com will help Americans understand the serious fiscal challenges facing our nation. These updated economic charts will also serve to hold elected officials accountable while accelerating needed actions to help ensure that our collective future will be better than our past. What we need now is leadership from our elected officials.”
Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives said, “Ross Perot is exactly right to echo Winston Churchill’s famous cry for ‘action this day’ to rally the nation to reform our entitlement programs, end deficit spending, and balance the federal budget. PerotCharts.com contains information every citizen needs to know so we can demand real change to get the nation on the right track.
David L. Boren, former U.S. Senator and governor of Oklahoma and current president of the University of Oklahoma said, “The facts speak for themselves in Ross Perot’s powerful website for all Americans. Runaway spending and a rising national debt will destroy America’s future as a great nation. As more of our debt is held by those in other countries, our political independence is put at risk by our economic dependency. We must act now!
“We simply cannot wait any longer to do something about runaway deficit spending,” Perot said. “This website addresses a number of issues, and we will add more in the coming weeks and months. But there is a common thread running through all of them. We cannot solve these problems unless we have the ability to pay for the solutions. Getting spending under control is the first step in that process.”
For more information, visit PerotCharts.com.
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July 29th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
We need to start more drilling.
We have more oil than the Arabs. I was suggesting we show, by comparison the amount of oil we have in our county as compared to the Arab nations, and Canada too for that matter.
The recent publication by the US Geological Survey, shows we have the oil. According to our own Government figures we have 48.5 BILLION barrels of oil available. When you listen to the media one might think that we have no oil and must depend on the Arabs for the oil. The whole story is not told by the media.
Why are we not using the oil we have instead of importing from anyone? We did not have to depend on oil from any foreign country had Congress done the job we elected them to do. Instead Congress has blocked and discouraged our oil companies from drilling our oil. Now why would Congress not want better prices at the pump? Could it be revenue? They take 25% off gross purchases. Our oil would cost less than $16./bbl and we see oil at $120./bbl or more now. Is it the fact that our revenue is more using the $120./bbl oil than it would be at $16/bbl oil? Of course it is, more spending money.
We need to show who is causing this dilema. Congress could have done something a long time ago. It is a crime to allow this to happen when it did not have to happen.
You hear the cry, ” we must wean ourselves off the foreign oil”, and “we are spoiled and waste oil with our gas guzzling vehicles, or we drive too much” When people begin to realize that we had the oil, and Congress has not allowed us to use our own oil, there are going to be a lot of unhappy voters out there. A record showing all the stumbling blocks and delays Congress has manufactured, to keep oil prices high. Is going to look pretty bad for Congress. We need to show who was causing this nighmare.
One of the most precious part of our freedom is being able to drive our cars for our own pleasure, when we want to and where we want to go, and of course to support our necessities as well. With oil a reasonable price we would have saved many companies that have had to close, many truckers that have had to hang it up because of the outlandish cost of our fuel. Our economy would have not taken the downturn we see at this time. It is a disgrace. It is a crime.
You will hear Global Warming! BS, this is another swindle, if hydrocarbons were causing global warming we would have never made it to 1945. When we all burned coal in our homes, factories and railroads we had things worse than today. So forget glogal warming as an excuse for less driving. It was proved that the report Gore has used for this scam, was false, it was kept very quiet, the man who found the errors was given a Nobel Prize for his efforts.
If we do not do something about it, things will get worse.
Robert D. Binzer
Madison, Indiana
812-273-1478
July 8th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Mr. Perot thank you for this incredible site that provides all those who know about it real numbers of what’s going on in our country. I just want to say I’m big on statistics, and it’s nice too know there are people like you who still care about people and this wonderful country we call the USA. May God always be in your heart and bless you and your family for all you do. I just want to say that when you ran for office many years ago I voted for you. I feel that a proven businessman like yourself should run the country, because you have one thing that many others lack and that is “Common Sense.” It’s good to know that someone with your wealth, knowledge and power cares, and is willing to defend the underdog!
Sincerely,
Mark A. Gonzalez
July 8th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
It is a comfort to know that Ross can still be BOSS. Welcome back. Like others I can see where many had my same thoughts.
I see comments about charts that should be one thing or another. The chart or message I want to see is the chart showing the oil reserves we have in and around this country. The other charts are important but presently the oil thing needs immediate attention. Let us demand emergency legislation to start drilling the ‘Bakken” Oil Fields as soon as possible. Also rescind the laws and stumbling blocks that Congress has placed on our oil companies. Shame on Congress.
I will be happy to get back on the band wagon. I was looking for this site, I wonder why Google did not have this? Hmm, I wonder?
Bob Binzer
July 6th, 2008 at 12:09 am
Thank you Mr. Perot for coming back on the scene.
Your first run for President was the first time I voted for an alternate candidate and I haven’t looked back since. I distrust anyone who runs under a major party flag (Democrat or Republican). I agree with the comments that they are playing games to dupe us into thinking we have a two-party system while they make their deals under the table.
All the interesting people who have commented here have stated things I’ve been thinking and wondering if I were missing something. It’s reassuring to think that I’m not alone. If we take personal responsibility to push this website out widely in our personal spheres of influence, we can make a difference.
My friends tell me that I just wasted my vote and that they (smart people that they are) didn’t waste theirs because they voted for the lesser of two evils.
It’s my observation that when you keep voting for evil, lesser or not, you keep getting evil in office. I’d rather cast an honest vote and send a message than support the status quo.
I’d like to see Alan Keyes considered in the Ross Perot, Ron Paul discussion. He has foreign policy experience and is a very intelligent, articulate, pro-Constitution man who also happens to be an African American. It’s time.
Sylvia, don’t be discouraged by the apparent low number. The site just went up June 16.
I agree we all need to forward the link to everyone in our email address books. Aren’t we 6 degrees away from anybody? I think we have a chance. Can’t we enlist the support of the conservative and alternative media (okay…slightly oxymoronic) and get the word out?
My passion is for the success of small businesses. They are the ones creating jobs. Unfortunately a lot of the owners are sophisticated and become victims of their lack of knowledge and willingness to manage their businesses more professionally. I tell people that I’m a recovering commercial Banker and now I work exclusively for business owners to fix their cash flow struggles and build the value of their companies. Americans need jobs. Small businesses need our attention if we are going to keep employment here in the U.S.
Don’t get me started on the illegal alien problem. Many of you have articulated it so well here. There are those tied to the same ethnic backgrounds as many illegal aliens who believe it is wrong to use that term. They would like for these people to be called “undocumented”. It is completely wrong for our Government to require U.S. citizens to be so thoroughly documented that others can steal our identities and then expect us to extend financial hospitality with no strings attached to non-citizens. This is NOT acceptable by any stretch of the imagination.
Why do I have to put my social security number on everything?
Why do I have to sign paperwork allowing my medical records to be passed around if I want treatment?
Why should I have to have my credit history part of the public domain? Why does my government make me opt out of having credit purveyors (and banks) use my personal credit information for their marketing purposes?
Why should I have to opt out of Internet tracking devices that document what I watch and then sell it to the highest bidder?
Yes, and why should my animals have to be injected with RFID? It’s not to protect us from bad meat. We have the USDA for that and if they fulfilled their original charter we wouldn’t have bad meat under recall. They have been bought off like so many other agencies.
As for medical care and its future impact on our budget — I think we have failed to solve the “health” care problem because we haven’t defined the problem or the question correctly. We don’t have a health care situation. We have a medical care situation. We have medical insurance that pre-determines who pays when we get sick or have an accident or an emergency. We have medical and pharmaceutical industries that only profit if we are not well, not healthy. We have collusion and fraud rampant in those industries. Our doctors have to have medical licenses. Our right to sell over-the-counter wellness technologies and herbs are threatened and yet 20-year-old marketing reps (with no medical training, just sales and marketing training) can provide medical doctors with their continuing education and these companies can financially reward doctors for prescribing their drugs. In the music industry (where no one dies) payolla is illegal but it is well-documented in the medical community. How bizarre.
Health care revolves around prevention and wellness and seeks approaches first that do no harm. We need to put a leash on the pharmaceutical-medical industrial complex. Congress has bought into their restraint of trade. The chemical-food-pharmaceutical industries are closely linked by common ownership at the global corporate level.
I also feel individuals should bear the responsibility for choices that come from their exercise of freedom. If a person smokes, they need to bear the medical consequences of their freedom of choice and not be allowed to pass it on to the public - their fellow citizens. This would apply to eating fat-sugary-salty non-nutrition and non-real-food diets. We have plenty of government funded studies that show the causes of many diseases and medical problems. If people do not choose to take care of their bodies they should not have free run at the medical subsidiary system we have in place. Of course we will run out of money doing it that way.
I could easily vote Constitutional Party - Libertarian Party - Independent Party…if we had someone like Perot, Paul, Keyes…I also think Kay Cole James should be considered for a running mate or cabinet position.
I’d like to see the citizens force the Congress to subscribe to zero-based budgeting. We have global companies with annual revenues that exceed the GDP of small countries. If they can be run for a “balanced budget” so can our country. I’m not prepared to believe it can’t be done.
However it is getting late. If ever middle-class, traditional, “documented” Americans were going to work to take back their country…this would be the Presidential and Congressional election to tackle.
I’m in. Tell me how to take these ideas and put them into action in an organized effective way.
Linda Heath
President, Financial Holographix
http://www.Financial-Holographix.com
June 25th, 2008 at 12:54 am
Welcome Back Ross!
I sure have missed you!
If ever there was a time for you to run for President, it is now! The odds of your pulling off a victory are better today than ever before!
I voted for you in ‘92 and ‘96 and was a member of your Stealth Team in ‘95-’96.
I am stunned by the thousands of people who brushed off and laughed when you told the nation about American jobs being at risk and how everyone will hear that giant sucking sound who have been talking about you for the past decade saying how you were right! My own brother repeats those words to me on the phone every time he hears on the news another large company moving to Mexico.
I was asked two decades ago if Americans deserve the type of government they have. I responded with most definitely, but I don’t! I made an informed decision and voted my conscience! I voted for you twice!
Age isn’t a factor in this presidential race when you consider John McCain’s age and how Ronald Regan ran for office when he was 80 years of age!
Everywhere I go I overhear people talk about you and wonder what happened to you and how they wish you would run again.
You were the one that told us in ‘92 to take back our country! Well Ross, let’s do it! Run for president and we will do just that!
Nearly every member of congress has mimicked you for the past 16 years including this years presidential candidates!
When the republicans gained control of congress they put on a good show appearing on national television stating everyone of them were going to sign the “Contract with America” that was taken from the back of your book! Oh sure, they brought each issue up and discussed it, but that’s all they did! They breached their contact with Americans by not passing a single bill addressing a multitude of issues. All they gave Americans was lip service and today it’s not any difference. They merely tell Americans what they believe Americans want to hear. You on the other hand Ross, you told Americans like it was. You told the hard cold facts as to what would happen if Americans didn’t step up to the plate!
Now the very Americans who joked about the the giant sucking sound of jobs going to Mexico have now found themselves trapped in that vacuum. For years I said as long as some Americans are still getting their piece of the pie they will continue to go through life with blinders. Now that they have been brought to their knees, actually more like their ankles by losing their job, home, cars, etc. it’s a different story! It was their ignorance that brought them to their ankles. Had they listened to you Ross, they would still be standing on their own two feet and would still be employed.
Now a well known company Harley-Davidson is cutting back thousands of jobs. It is rumored that Honda is interested in purchasing Harley Davidson. If that happens most likely their main plant in York PA will be closed. The news media claims Harley Davidson will be moving to Mexico. I don’t see that happening at the moment. What I have heard is that Harley Davidson is planning on opening up a new plant in North Carolina, a right to work state where people earn just a tad over the minimum wage. Most of the baby boomers have purchased their dream recreation vehicle– a Harley Davidson motorcycle which they keep for about 20 to 25 years. Few baby boomers today purchase another Harley Davidson motorcycle.
In ‘96 it was stated by some members of congress that Hershey would be moving to Mexico. No one thought that would happen and it did! The late Mr. Hershey would be extremely upset if he were alive to see what happened to his company that he built from the bottom up. Surely he is turning over in his grave today. Hershey was just another company who’s CEO and other VP’s became gerbils racing on the spinning wheel. Corporate executives earning millions of dollars and perks annually. It is impossible for them to spend all those millions of dollars in their lifetime! It’s time to call a screeching halt to this outrageous practice.
Come on back Ross where you belong! In the White House! Americans will settle for one term as you originally intended to serve in ‘92.
God Bless You Always Ross! I’ll be praying hard that you listen to “We The People” and toss your hat into the ring!
June 22nd, 2008 at 11:56 pm
Rather than pointing the finger at the media darlings such as the war in Iraq, the banks, or the oil companies, let’s really look at where our attention needs to be focused. It is congress! It does not matter whether you are a republican or a democrat or independent, congress has repeatedly failed to address and solve the issues. They are only interested in replacing one band aid with another, while they line their pockets with donations, increased income, and their private pension plan.
First fiasco, social security. For those that are not aware, please go back and do some research, this was nothing more than a Ponzi scheme by FDR. The age at which men could receive benefits was greater than the average lifespan of the american male at the time of its inception. All congress has done ever since is either extend the age of qualification or reduce benefits. This either has to be completely privatized along with removing the taxable income limit for this. I believe the current ceiling is $98,000 for an annual income. That needs to be eliminated and either a reduced percentage beyond that or continue the current level of taxes for income beyond the current ceiling.
Second, medicare. This just like social security has had benefits reduced and qualification extended since its inception. It is not the governments duty to take care of every individual citizen. Whatever happened to personal and fiscal responsibility? This plan has to be phased out and rather quickly. It will blled this country dry faster than social security.
Third, collection of unpaid taxes. If we really want to make a dent we have to go after the delinquents out there. Why should the responsible taxpayers have to continually pay the bill? Nobody ever mentions anything about how much is actually out there in uncollected taxes…NOBODY.
Fourth, Forbes had the right idea. A national sales tax on everything other than food. To accompany this, either slash or eliminate government subsidized programs. We also need to impose some restrictions on congress and their spending habits. It is not what can the representative do for their constituents anymore, but how are they helping our country stay in the black. Aren’t you tired of these rediculous studies done in the middle of nowhere for the lifespan of an ant and they receive $1,000,000 in funding for it? To accompany this one step further, we need to eliminate the piggy-backing of these stupid programs on some good ideas just to get a vote. The last time I checked that was extortion. At least in our world. We have to run this like a business now.
Fifth, forget a national healthcare. Keep it private. Before you freak out or think that I am totally insane, hear me out. Insurance companies can create a health care plan to run for an induviduals lifetime, they just do not want to. The plan would work like this. You would purchase a pool of money that would last you your lifetime and you would pay a level premium for the remainder of your lifetime or until the money has expired. for example, if someone purchased a pool of $5,000,000 and paid a level premium over 50 years, that would not be that much on a monthly basis. You would not have to worry about increasing rates or requalifying every year. Just for a reference, they already have something in place now that is very similar, it is long-term care. It works the same way as my idea. This can be done.
Sorry for being long-winded, but I am as just as fed up as the rest of you and want to see something done.