I remember riding in a work van, a Ford Econoline, bouncing around on the wheel well as my best-friend’s dad drove us to Gibraltar Trade Center to attend the Gun and Knife show, listening to Ross Perot on AM radio.
Perot was a man ahead of his time. He knew back in ’92 that Free Trade, particularly NAFTA, would suck valuable resources out of our nation. Back in 1996, the best year of my life, my buddy’s dad knew a vote for Perot was a vote for Clinton, but he could not stomach the idea of voting for idiot Bob Dole from Kansas.
Perot split the Republicans apart and ushered Slick Willy into the White House.
20 years later and it seems Mr. Perot was right. Globalism has fueled big corporations to spread across the the Sahara and South American jungles in hunt of cheap labor. Chinese subsidized steel pours onto our shores every day, sapping our domestic producers, and our biggest technology companies are setting up shop in Ireland.
Here’s a refresher on Ross Perot. It has a nice Mr. Rogers feel to it:
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