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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