July 2, 2009 at 14:02:47

Did Obama Appoint People With Track Record of Making Right Decisions?

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By Ralph Nader (about the author) Page 2 of 2 page(s)

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A good deal of the U.S. auto industry went south after NAFTA, leaving
workers and communities stranded in Michigan and other states.
Bankrupt Chrysler is planning to move a modern, award-winning engine
plant in Wisconsin to Mexico after receiving billions of dollars in
taxpayer bailouts.

On Perot's nationally-televised deficit warnings (with charts), what
more need be said? Even he did not envision what would pile up after
his clarion calls. The burden on the next generation and the tax
dollars diverted from our country's needs to pay the interest on these
trillions of dollars of debt were pointed out again and again nearly
twenty years ago by the Texas entrepreneur. He even has a website (perotcharts.com) updating the red ink.

In Bush's and Obama's Washington, there is no room for Perot to gain visibility and recognition.

It is one thing for the Washington politicians to ignore prescient
progressive commentators, like William Grieder, who have been
prophetically right on. It is quite another escape from reality to
turn their backs on leaders within the business establishment itself.

There are many like Perot who must be watching the day's news and
saying "we told you so, but you didn't listen then and you are not
listening now."

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