Trans-Pacific Partnership: The Fast Track to Poverty

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7. As is typical, Perot was a republican politician who used existing trends to appeal to fear-monger.

That hardly makes him a genius. It certainly does make him a republican.

Manufacturing jobs have been declining in the US (and in every other developed country) since about 1955. Predicting that an existing trend will continue does not require a PHD in economics. Blaming that trend and its continuation on a policy that happened 40 years later is more fear-mongering than science.

Ross had also correctly predicted the return of manufacturing to the US AFTER Wages and Benefits for Americans had dropped to 3rd World Levels.

Our average manufacturing wage now is $19.60 an hour. I had no idea that workers in the 3rd World were doing that well in 2013 but, if Ross is "right", they must be.

The upturn in manufacturing wages looks like in started in about 1995. Hmmmm.

Maya Lin, architect of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial received harassment from Perot after her race was revealed: he was known to have called her an "egg roll" after it was revealed that she was Asian.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Perot#Early_political_activities

Apparently not a big fan of non-whites. I am not aware that he opposed the US-Canada free trade agreement which had been in existence for many years when NAFTA was proposed.