Ross Perot Warns Of Economic Crisis, Launches PerotCharts.com
Glad someone else is spreading the word. Definitely worth a visit:
Ross Perot Launches Public Information Website About U.S. Economic Crisis
PerotCharts.com Illustrates that We Are Running Out Of Time to Stop Deficit Spending
DALLAS, TEXAS – JUNE 16, 2008 /PRNewswire/—Ross Perot, business leader and former presidential candidate, announced today the launch of “PerotCharts.com,” a public information website that contains objective, factual information about the current economic crisis in America. The site is being launched as an alert and appeal for American citizens to inform themselves about federal government spending. Perot said, “The U.S. national debt reached $9.4 TRILLION on April 30, and it is increasing by more than $1 billion every day. We are leaving our children and grandchildren with debt they cannot possibly pay.”
PerotCharts.com consists of three major components: a video featuring Ross Perot discussing the purpose of the website, a blog where new charts and other information are posted daily for study and comment, and a narrated chart presentation explaining the economic problems our country faces.
The website is not affiliated with any political party or candidate. Most of the data and research for the charts is gathered from official government sources.
“The economic crisis facing America today is far greater than anything since the Great Depression,” said Perot. “Our federal government continues to spend us deeper into debt. The American people must get directly involved and demand an end to deficit spending. This website will provide information for citizens to do just that.”
Like the economic charts Perot employed in his 1992 and 1996 presidential campaigns, which served as snapshots of complex economic issues presented in simple terms, PerotCharts.com features the latest official government figures about the real conditions of our economy for everyone to see and consider. The site is designed to be a reservoir of information about the economy, and provides an accurate look at where the money comes from and where it goes.
David Walker, former U.S. Comptroller General and current president and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation said, “Ross Perot is the father of fiscal charts, and PerotCharts.com will help Americans understand the serious fiscal challenges facing our nation. These updated economic charts will also serve to hold elected officials accountable while accelerating needed actions to help ensure that our collective future will be better than our past. What we need now is leadership from our elected officials.”
Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives said, “Ross Perot is exactly right to echo Winston Churchill’s famous cry for ‘action this day’ to rally the nation to reform our entitlement programs, end deficit spending, and balance the federal budget. PerotCharts.com contains information every citizen needs to know so we can demand real change to get the nation on the right track.
David L. Boren, former U.S. Senator and governor of Oklahoma and current president of the University of Oklahoma said, “The facts speak for themselves in Ross Perot’s powerful website for all Americans. Runaway spending and a rising national debt will destroy America’s future as a great nation. As more of our debt is held by those in other countries, our political independence is put at risk by our economic dependency. We must act now!
“We simply cannot wait any longer to do something about runaway deficit spending,” Perot said. “This website addresses a number of issues, and we will add more in the coming weeks and months. But there is a common thread running through all of them. We cannot solve these problems unless we have the ability to pay for the solutions. Getting spending under control is the first step in that process.”
For more information, visit PerotCharts.com.
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“Ross Perot Launches Public Information Website About U.S. Economic Crisis”
PRNewswire, June 16, 2008
June 16th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
WHY DO WE THINK THE FED WILL MAKE THE RIGHT MOVES?
Didn’t America get into this mess with the help of the Fed in the first place?
http://pacificgatepost.blogspot.com/2008/06/assumption-fed-knows-what-its-doing.html
June 17th, 2008 at 7:12 am
Thanks for the comment PacificGatePost.
June 17th, 2008 at 9:05 am
Did you say that the national Debt is increasing by $1 billion every day?
Yikes! The only way we can ever even hope to pay this off is by devaluing the US Dollar to a minute fraction of its current value.
…oh sh*t!
Got Gold? Got Commidities? Got anything else besides dollars?
-Mammoth
June 17th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Thanks for the comment Mammoth.
“Did you say that the national Debt is increasing by $1 billion every day?”
Mr. Perot said that. Wouldn’t want to steal his thunder…
“The only way we can ever even hope to pay this off is by devaluing the US Dollar to a minute fraction of its current value.”
Some think this is a real possibility.
October 24th, 2008 at 9:27 am
I think Ross Perot has always had sound economic solutions. I know if McCain were elected, he would follow the same old bloodthirsty, hypocritical “pro life Christian” program of committing premeditated murder for the grand theft of natural resources which has put this country billions in the hole. So many Americans spend in the same manor as George W. Bush that they do not see the full immoral and economic picture. With such ones, all a politician has to do is lie and say he/she is “born again” and has their picture taken holding the Bible walking into a church and they believe them. However, that is how all the poeple believed that went to Jonestown! Jim Jones was born again too! Americans need to pull their head out of…the sand, and look at the world in a realistic cause and effect way and not be blinded by a baseball and apple pie, faux sense of patriotism that is neither intelligent or in the best interests of the average working “Joe.” This mindset is making thousands dead and just a select few really, filthy, stinking rich. Citizens need to get mad about the oil companies lining politician’s pockets for ANWR and cutting back on education so that we are stuck with a nation of knuckleheads that are one of the top ten in the world with the highest crime rate. Wake up America!!!
October 25th, 2008 at 8:02 am
Thanks for the comment Rachele. PerotCharts.com is a wonderful tool for the American public in that it serves as a barometer of our economic health. And regarding the politicians? I look at deeds, not words…
March 27th, 2009 at 9:09 am
I know one way we could cut spending. Bring our Armed Forces home from around the world. Quit trying to police the world and start taking care of the USA.
March 30th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
Thanks for the comment Dennis.