Ron Paul: This is why America Has A AA+ Rating...

[Bob16542]

HAHAHA! That first clip was kind of funny. Where was that from? Saturday Night Live? 

[Enfocomp]

American's always seem to vote for the least qualified person as president, and ridicule the person who is actually telling them the truth & and legitimately trying to help them.

[centurion180ad]

@Enfocomp I photocopied 82nd AB division paratroopers in Normandy with a message, “they did their duty now you do yours VOTE ROSS PEROT.” It didn’t help. Nothing will. Americans *want* our disgusting gangsters.

[Makell]

Ross Perot was a business genius! His CHARACTER unfortunately overshadowed his intelligence in the public's eyes... And YES he predicted this MELTDOWN 20 years ago!

[TheGoalSetter]

Side note: Perot blinked a LOT less than Bush and Clinton. Blinking indicates recalling rehearsed comments and lying. Bush and Clinton lied a lot and they had to recall rehearsed comments because they don't know what they are talking about.

Perot knew what he was talking about and told the truth.

[plasterdbastard]

Ross Perot destroyed at the debates, and that's why no independents are allowed in the debates now.

Can you imagine if Ralph Nader stood up and had a chance to go toe to toe with George W Bush?

It's time to vote for the 3rd option. The status quo is liquidating the light of America.

[7575047]

@davematt678 ...Perot was independent and nailed 20% of the vote. You don't need a party affiliation to be a threat/contender. However, do you think ONE elected man is going to solve the systemic problems this country has today? If you do, then you are more ignorant you could possibly think I am.

[chesterjeanette]

@7575047 Right but temporarily during his term and probably a few years after the country may have seen 0 debt, However with ignorance and the way this country is we would be right back where we are now assuming the people don't care to stick with any smart budget and keeping jobs in USA. We can help other countries develop if we can set an example. Now we try to help by borrowing from China to send to heads of countries where greed rules and citizens starve! Sad

[MrKINGCRANE]

MR. PEROT WAS RIGHT!!!!!!!

[augustkm]

The seers are there; not enough take heed and give support.

The establishment tells us that those speaking the truth are crazy, to be laughed at, will cause the collapse of the country if elected. So instead we allow the establishment to take turns with the reigns of power, while we all remain pawns.

[spdusma]

The Republican Party has lost its way. Let's restore what used to be the grandest experiment in societal history: The United States of America, with, as Thomas Jefferson and our founders espoused, a small and limited federal government. It is a lot easier to hold leaders at the state and local levels accountable for their actions than it is to hold accountable these federal officials who are insulated by cunning support from large and powerful corporate interests.

[MrSeriouslynot]

1:07 to 1:11, BUSH and CLINTON smiles it off. A decade later, is anyone still smiling?

[7575047]

Ron Paul is NOT Perot. Perot was an Independent/Reform party. You guys that believe Paul is THE guy, why doesn't he renounce and reject his affiliation, ties and support with the Republican Party? Until that happens he will NEVER get my vote. "By their deeds you will know them." DON'T BE DECEIVED!

[johnnyangel26]

@7575047 Although I disagree, you do make a valid point but lets look at this objectively.. What's the alternative? Perry? Romney? C'mon now... Aside from that. He's the closest thing we have to a real republican these days. The republican party ain't what it used to be. He doesn't need to switch parties, the republican party needs to come back home to it's base. Perry and Romney are both Liberals... Perry used to be a democrat.

[bnfox]

brings a tear to my eye to see a smart, honest man between those two fucking statist scumbags.

[Zooni2]

Corporations own the media and buy Politicians for a reason. Destroying the country by using subsidized offshore labor via laws that don't represent the best interests of the American citizens at large. The media then fools the people into thinking corporate welfare and laws are good. Men of the people like Ron Paul are then marginalized..

[NLMF2011]

Ya... but little do you know that Perrot Systems (his company) has been expanding in India Mexico and China like MAD! #1 reason... it´s cheaper and the workers in mexico and India are just as good if not better than the ones in the US. (Perrot Systems just got sold to Dell computer about a year ago though...)

[jacknewt]

@NLMF2011

All he was doing was pointing out that wage arbitrage causes a race to the bottom. Perot Systems or any other company that faces competition from offshore production must cut costs and do pretty much the same or go out of business. I have to say, though, Dell is an evil company so I don't know what he was thinking there...

[Jerrriy]

@NLMF2011 Are you an idiot?

Ross Perot was arguing for a LEVEL PLAIN FIELD BY LAW. He wanted duties/taxes/tariffs levied on certain imports (namely those products made by dirt poor foreign labor) cuz rightly Perot regarded that as falsifying competition.

But once manufacturers were forced BY LAW to compete on a NOT SO level plain field you can't blame one individual company for outsourcing because (depending on the sector) it simply CAN'T compete and would go bankrupt. THE LAW is the problem

[NLMF2011]

@Jerrriy For more than the last decade Ross Perot has been pushing for less tarrifs and duties not more. I don´t know Ross Perot personally, although I´ve met his son on occasion. However, I do know people who are close to him and they have told me that he personally regrets the anti-NAFTA crusade he went on back in the 90´s. Besides, NAFTA did have TONS of tarrifs and duties attached to it depending on the business.

[jmjfanss]

@NLMF2011

You are dead wrong, FUCK NAFTA, that was the foundation for the north american union.

[NLMF2011]

@jmjfanss Dude... You´re a Ron Paul supporter.. Ron Paul is for FREE TRADE which means ZERO regulations on trade. Ron Paul opposed NAFTA because it´s managed trade. ¨Managed¨ meaning tarrifs, duties and taxes on imported goods. What is it exactly about NAFTA you didn´t like? Was it the fact that it was free trade with no regulations or was it that it was too heavily burdened with regulations thus the term ¨managed¨. I´m not sure where you´re coming from and I think you´re confused.

[jmjfanss]

@NLMF2011

NAFTA is wrong and it is treason.

and not only that, NAFTA was the foundation for the treasonous north american union.

[UnitedCorpOfAmerica]

@Jerrriy Good post. By not leveling the playing field made possible the nepotism and cronyism that are the favored and exempt extranational corporations. I believe this was the reason.