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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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June 18th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
It’s nice that Mr. Perot waited until the man he endorsed for President is almost out of office to start bringing up the deficit boogey man again. I seem to remember that when W. took office we actually had a surplus and we were paying down the national debt. Seven and a half years later and his hand picked choice for leader has added an additional three trillion dollars to the debt. He started a war that cost us half a trillion dollars and didn’ raise a penny of revenue to pay for it.
I was a fan of Perot when he ran for President and forced a national discussion of the debt but now this all seems too little and too late.
June 18th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Genome08, I was disappointed Ross endorsed Dubya too. I think he did it because he was sick of the Republicans accusing him of costing them elections, even tho the only reason Republicans accused Ross of such is because they needed an excuse as to why Clinton beat Bush. Blaming someone other than Bush makes their party look stronger and better that they “didn’t lose on their own” and Clinton didn’t “really win.” It looks really bad when an son of a Senator war hero-turned-Congressman-turned-CIA-head-turned Vice President-turned-President goes from 90 percent approvals after a successful war all the way to 30 percent approvals and resounding defeat to a young draft dodging philandering governor from ARKANSAS. In reality, when Ross was gone from the race July-October 1992, Bush was down in the polls consistently by 20 points averaged http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE2DE143CF931A1575AC0A964958260 Exit polls showed 38 percent of Ross’ voters would have went Clinton, 38 to Bush, and the rest stay home http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE0DB1F3FF936A35752C1A964958260 The myth also was used to politically undermine Clinton, in that he “didn’t get a majority of voters” which is a ridiculous argument because when there is a third candidate, people will vote for him. It gave them the ability to block his initiatives. The same goes for 1996 http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/elections/natl.exit.poll/index1.html What really angers me is that the media bought the idea of Ross as a “spoiler” and still peddle it today.
The Bush machine probably pushed Ross to endorse Bush, because delivering his voters to Bush, as eventually happened helped Bush to victory in 2000. Ross also did attack Clinton for his affair, which I personally think was at the behest of the Republican machine. While no one deserves all the credit for the balanced budget, without Clinton’s deficit cutting bill, the budget would never have been balanced. This is evidenced thru both Republican AND Democratic Congresses. Notice how in the last 40 years, when both have been in power without Clinton, during Nixon/Ford/Carter/Reagan/Bush and Bush, the deficit is only high. The GOP had one party rule from 2001-2007 and bloated the deficit, when they were supposed to keep spending low. Instant runoff voting would do the trick. Then, 3rd party candidates could win the electoral college. Of course, the party machines will never allow it. Ross woulda won 1992 if people thought he had had a chance to win. There was an exit poll I think that showed this.
June 18th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Thank’s Mr. Perot for making it posible to have a general idea of what is at stake by showing us the economic charts. and many ideas and solutions can come out of by facing the real problem.
Economic and political.
Trough out of history here and there similar positions have ocurred and the usual maner to resolve this has being what I fell that our president have done .
The use of the military power to conquer other rich countries and by that offset the economic balance.
History tend to repeat it self and how we deal with it can make the diference. our options will be reactive or proactive reactive can be sum as dealing with the problem as it has being done in the past. proactive can only happen when we know what it is at the stake and chosse to deal with in a inteligent, reasonable and if posible peaceful manner.
And mr Perot I comend you for at least putting the issues on the table,and if we become aware of thosse issues as a whole I urge my self and all of us to find solutions radicaly diferent than the ones
that members of the old scholl offer us.
Thank’s mr Perot you have done a very special thing by posting this charts and create this forum.
June 18th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
This is in response to Ken_Moyes (Post #62):
Let us not forget the other horror that was delivered onto the American people in 1913: Namely the creation of The Federal Reserve. A self-serving, privately owned entity that’s about as ‘Federal’ as Federal Express.
This was not the first attempt by the international banking scum to force a central bank on the US (the first two attempts failed). By allowing our monetary policy–and in turn our entire economy–to be run by civilian bankers instead of the Treasury, we’ve given them complete control over the path this country has taken in the past 95 years.
Now that every dollar in circulation is ‘born’ with an interest-bearing debt to the CIVILIAN Federal Reserve, we can NEVER be debt-free again unless or until the central bank is abolished and we return to a monetary standard with something behind it such as we had when on the gold standard. Congress and the administrations didn’t like the gold standard becaue it was too restrictive when it came to deficit-spending and that’s why it’s gone. Therein lies the real crux of the problem folks. Do your own research and you’ll see what I mean.
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.”
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin (1802)
June 18th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
More charts and information on government collections and spending:
http://www.cbo.gov
http://cboblog.cbo.gov
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/eop
Good non-government site:
http://www.concordcoalition.org/issues/feddebt/index.html