Ross Perot Economic Stance: Let's 'Put a Cork' on This 'Fiscal Mess'
Ross Perot has maintained a similar political stance to that of the one he had in 1992, the year he was charged with costing President George H. W. Bush a second term in office.
For Perot, one of the most successful third party candidates in American history, a lot of people are to blame for the current economic status. In a recent interview the former presidential candidate suggested that the status of the economy has been a well-underplayed topic. Anyone from the media, who has failed to give fair coverage of the issues, to teachers unions who have placed their own needs before that of the country, are to blame.
"Nobody that's running really talks about it, about what we have to do and why we have to do it," Perot told USA Today of the two candidates currently running.
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"They would prefer not to have it discussed," he added.
But the stance is an original one for Perot, who has been pushing the importance economic issues since his first attempt as a third party candidate.
"Our president blames Congress, Congress blames the president, the Democrats and Republicans blame each other. Nobody steps up to the plate and accepts responsibility for anything," Perot said- in 1992. He agrees with those same comments today.
"It's like the guy who's drinking- sooner or later, he's got to put a cork on the bottle, right?" Perot says. "You have to have the will to do it."
Spending cuts, in Perot's opinion, should begin with paycuts for the president and congress. They "should cut their salaries until they resolve the fiscal mess they've created," warned the businessman.
"The last thing I ever want to see is our country taken over because we're so financially weak, we can't do anything," the businessman said.
