Sunday, January 3, 2010

Perot so Right, Gore so Wrong on NAFTA

After watching this embarrassing discussion between Al Gore and Ross Perot, I thought I would edit a few important clips together from those old debates, illustrating just how wrong Gore was on the subject. He's not wrong about climate change in my opinion, since I'm just as worried about pollution and particulates as he is about warming, but Gore sadly missed out on this one by a mile.

I remember thinking Perot made more sense when he advocated trying to bring other nations wages up to ours in our trade agreements, not down to theirs. Perot even dealt with that problem by explaining how wages will meet at some low point, destroying our country. How can you argu with this, from Perot:
"You trade with people who made money, you don't trade with the people who oppress their workers and they don't have any money."
How will those workers buy our goods, our exports, if they make only a dollar or two a day?

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