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| Ross Perot back with some more lunatic claims; Trying to hawk his stupid book | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Oct 1 2012, 07:17 PM (302 Views) | |
| Tybee | Oct 1 2012, 07:17 PM Post #1 |
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Former presidential contender and billionaire Ross Perot is worried that America is a sitting duck for an unnamed foreign invader. In an interview for his new autobiography, Perot said the nation's weak economy has left us open for a hostile takeover—and neither presidential candidate is the man to save the country. Citing an impending fiscal cliff, Perot warned of disaster. "If we are that weak, just think of who wants to come here first and take us over," the former CEO of info-tech company Perot Systems told USA Today on Monday. "The last thing I ever want to see is our country taken over because we're so financially weak, we can't do anything," Perot says. When asked for his take on the presidential race, Perot added, "Nobody that's running really talks about it, about what we have to do and why we have to do it. They would prefer not to have it discussed." However cryptic he may be, this is the first political reckoning by Perot in years, ever since he withdrew from the political landscape after the fall of his Reform Party in the 2000 election. The man who ran the most successful third-party campaigns in contemporary American politics also expressed optimism about the current tea party activism and its efforts to "wake up" both Washington and the electorate. Still, he thinks that even the fresh voices in the populist, small-government tea party movement aren't focusing on the real doomsday issue: the deficit. Comparing the Washington establishment to a bunch of fiscal drunks, Perot is still waiting for America to undergo an intervention, before it finds itself owned by a new global power. "It's like the guy who's drinking—sooner or later, he's got to put a cork on the bottle, right?" http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/america-could-taken-over-warns-ross-perot-152428497.html |
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| Guest | Oct 1 2012, 07:53 PM Post #2 |
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People like him spout all this feel good mumbo jumbo. "Wake up America" "Take our country back" "Save America" blah blah blah No new policy. No new thought, just bumpersticker shit. Frighten the peasants. He needs to crawl back into his hole...... and take Donald Trump with him. |
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| Deleted User | Oct 1 2012, 08:11 PM Post #3 |
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He's right that the deficit is a concern, but he goes into loony land with the "take us over" rhetoric. Let's see, with a nuclear arsenal big enough to kill off the entire planet and the world's largest conventional military... yep, we're sitting ducks. |
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| Guest | Oct 7 2012, 12:58 AM Post #4 |
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No, he's not referring to government debt. He's referring to private debt, and more important, to secrecy in holding shares. Since anyone can buy shares in American companies through a proxy, keeping their ownership hidden, we have no idea how much of corporate America is owned by foreign nations such as Saudi Arabia and China. It could well be that all those "American" companies making money exporting Chinese goods to the USA are actually owned by China. |
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| Erna | Oct 7 2012, 03:27 AM Post #5 |
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There is nothing wrong with private debt. It's public debt where the master criminals who own the central banks really make their billion$, and we are all forced to pay for it. Some refer to this as "the Rothschild formula". For example, a few decades ago David Rockefeller's Chase Manhattan Bank (now JP Mprgan Chase) - together with a British bank - made an enormous loan to a banana republic country. The interest on the loan was to be paid with revenues from the port of the banana republic. Someone from the British Bank asked David who would enforce payment on the loan if the banana republic government refused to pay. Rockefeller's answer: "Your marines and ours"! Edited by Erna, Oct 7 2012, 05:05 AM.
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| Guest | Oct 7 2012, 09:43 AM Post #6 |
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I thought he died years ago. How old is this geezer? |
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| Tybee | Oct 7 2012, 01:33 PM Post #7 |
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He's 82 years old and should have done the world a favor and died many years ago. |
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| Guest | Oct 7 2012, 11:10 PM Post #8 |
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Perot is Hitler with a cheap suit. Mrs PC, there is "nothing wrong" with private debt? Were you aware that Americans have taken on something like $60 trillion of it the last thirty years? |
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| Tybee | Oct 8 2012, 07:20 AM Post #9 |
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I knew Perot was a crazy piece of work back many years ago when he boasted about firing employees and then going after them for huge sums of money for the training his company gave them when they were hired. |
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| Guest | Oct 16 2012, 02:14 PM Post #10 |
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He just endorsed Mitt Romney. For years, Perot used to hire 20 something Mormons to run his empire, until people started whispering the "p" word (Pedophile, although of course, these were all 22-24) and much to the chagrin of his children. I'm surprised he can stomach somebody as long in the tooth as Romney, and since Perot is intimately familiar with Mormon craziness, the old dog must be off his meds. Maybe they've closed in around him, the way they looted Howard Hughes in the final years. |
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| LizBien | Oct 16 2012, 03:11 PM Post #11 |
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Yep. Sorry for cursing, but Ross Perot is as batty as the day itself is long but I do not think he is a kiddie fucker on top of that. He might like young adult gentlemen for all anyone should know, but not minors. Great reference with Howard Hughes and the Mormons, btw! I've not given that any thought in ages. Edited by LizBien, Oct 16 2012, 03:13 PM.
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| Guest | Oct 16 2012, 04:21 PM Post #12 |
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You don't think he would Liz? Perot certainly wouldn't hesitate to make accusations like that against all of us. Like Hughes, he's just a big old stupid baby who thinks he can control the Mormons....until the exact moment when they make him their prisoner. |
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| LizBien | Oct 16 2012, 04:42 PM Post #13 |
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I don't get a kiddie fucker vibe off of Perot and actually hope I am not wrong on that just because of the nature of that crime and all. Not to be a know it all or something silly. What is his stance on LGBT rights in the here and now? Back in the day he tried to be progressive (for him) with things... http://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/Ross_Perot_Civil_Rights.htm ...But what about now? Maybe since he is down with the Mormons he shares their view? |
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| Guest | Oct 16 2012, 06:11 PM Post #14 |
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Ross Perot was never for gay rights. The Reform Party was, but only after they got rid of him as their standard bearer. He was notoriously homophobic throughout his career, refusing to employ gay people, firing people who had HIV, the whole works. |
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| Guest | Oct 16 2012, 06:16 PM Post #15 |
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From Wikipedia "In 2006, Perot Systems was one of three companies, of 1,520 surveyed, to receive the lowest possible rating on the Corporate Equality Index survey conducted by the Human Rights Campaign. In 2009, the company was one of only two to receive a zero ranking in the survey, which evaluates "employers and their policies and practices pertinent to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender employees" |
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| LizBien | Oct 17 2012, 05:00 PM Post #16 |
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I have graciously appreciated learning more of Ross Perot on this thread. Dead serious, btw. |
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