Ross Perot battles Al Gore in 1993 NAFTA debate
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- Vice President Al Gore and former presidential candidate Ross Perot debate the merits of the North American Free Trade Agreement passed by Congress, but not yet signed into law by President Bill Clinton during a 1993 appearance on CNN's Larry King live
Ross Perot was my candidate when I turned 18 and that's why I'm an Independent to this day. Thank You Mr. Perot 🇺🇸 and God Bless You
same .. he was the first person i ever voted for
Perot transcended left and right. A unique man with his own unique ideas which he took from across the political spectrum, a great man who represented himself and the masses unlike the likes of Clinton and bush and gore who represent the international elite.
And this is why people who support third parties should do their research on Ross Perot. We have a two-party system as far as general elections. Ross Perot was probably the most successful of any third-party candidate we have ever had, he got 19% of the popular vote, and yet he didn't get a SINGLE electoral vote..
Anyone who wants their vote to count, I would suggest not voting third party lol
@@kbanghart Hopefully things will change when We kick out the old. Being an Independent I can't vote like Democrats or Republicans. I can't work the polls and that like you said the electoral is a two party system. Well I will vote again for Trump this year.
@@keishamurrell3095 lol
Ross Perot might be the most under appreciated American individual in the last century. He was brilliant.
No he wasn't. Protectionism is discredited, failed policy, Trumper.
Perot was 100% right, the good paying manufacturing jobs went to Mexico (and later China)
and the bad paying jobs went south also
that's pretty nonsensical. what happened was a conversion of a good job to a walmart job.
He really was. We can see that now in 2018. And the worst part is the so-called establishment maligned him
Because people go in to business for america. They are in it for themselves. The most successful american companies use foreign labor. I dont think america would be as successful without foreign labor. The profit margins would not be there
@@g.c8123 I agree.
Why don’t we still have debates like this. No time limits and balanced debates
Bc the uniparty would get btfod
Trump screwed everything.
There are. SOHO Forum Debates hosted by the great and powerful Gene Epstein. I hate that I have to tell people about it, it should be the most watched channel on YT.
damn Ross Perot damn Ross Perot made so much more sense then Al Gore.
It was just alien to many Americans then, today the public has more insight and access to information. To be fair President Trump has been dealing with NAFTA issues and fixing what Perot has been warning us
Gore doesn't even believe anything he's saying. He says whatever the party line is. He might as well be an actor. Ross Perot is a thinking man. An independent, real person.
And Ron Paul was right too. The 0.01% ignored him too.
Because he was honest and speaking his mind while gore was serving a elite agenda and knowingly lying
@@zerocool1344 And on Jan. 6 2021, we see just how successful Trump was at anything!
Ross was so much smarter than all those politicians. American People at the time couldn't or didnt wanna believe him.
Except you need more than smarts to be president.
@@kbanghart Washington DC is cruel to anyone that's an "outsider". So is the media that feeds off their DC friends. Just watch how an outsider like Trump was attacked by the DC swamp using a fake Russian collusion conspiracy created by Hillary Clinton. Look at how the DC swamp came up with a garbage story to try to impeach him over. Outsiders are definitely not welcome in DC politics. I'm afraid to think of what they would have done to a guy like Perot these days.
It was a leap of faith for a lot of Americans. And the establishment parties are both targeting outsiders that try to challenge them.
The pop culture media was and still is in bed with the establishment government
Looks like the establishment machine was already working. We see it now how only certain candidates are promoted. The rest are discarded. They claim it's poll numbers that decide who gets tv time, debate time, etc. Seems like it should be the opposite. The lesser known candidate should get air time so people can hear them and actually make an informed decision. But it's all about the $$$$.
American people should have listened to Perot.
I did
@Random Person Yeah boomers don't like facts and charts they like platitudes
@@infjintegrityvsnarcissism7295 boomers were coddled
Gen x disengaged
And we wonder why we are working at the greatest generations jobs IE McDonald's
HMMM
And Ron Paul was right too. The 0.01% ignored him too.
Yep now hes dead as a doornail
We lost a great American today. RIP Ross Perot. You could have saved our country if the American people had listened and made you President.
Don Williams as I recall he said he or his family members were threatened and that’s why he dropped out. If that’s the case I certainly see no reason not to believe him.
@Don Williams They went after his daughter.
The establishment was never going to let him in as it would have changed this country for the better. I believed him when he said they went after his family. The US govt is capable of anything no matter how shady or dirty they have to get. Voted for you Ross. You wont be forgotten.
@Don Williams I agree.
Listen to Al Gore favoring US Manufacturers moving to other Countries and then importing the goods into the US. This is how he planned to create jobs ?
Ross is technically correct if a corporation is just transferring capital good from its US to Mexican subsidiary
That’s not an export
“He’s a great soldier but doesn’t know anything about business” - BRILLIANT!
Perot about Colin Powell lol
"I'm Ross and you're my boss", to the American people. Genius salesman, patriot, and truly his own man. RIP and respect from Australia
you're not from USA so you shouldn't have a say he is the reason as to why Bill corrupt Clinton was able to get reelected look at what he did to Iraq the dividians in Texas
@@derick3482 I don't recall mentioning Bill Clinton at all.
@@michael57603 pay attention
he ran and he lost but he took votes away from the right wingers not from the democrats
people who vote left or democrat will always vote democrat
most of the time they don't even know who is running so long as he or she is a democrat
@@derick3482 stop trying to make excuses to project your view when I was not going there with my comment.
@@michael57603 your comment was RIP and respect
you respect a man if he gave a crap he would've helped pat buchanan become president
RIP chart man, you knew what these traitors were doing to our once great country.
Misguided, but not traitors
Traitors are trump cult members.
@@JamesBond-vi2eh~ "Orange man bad!"
@@hnys7976 The 90s were a fire sale as vulture capitalists like Bain Capital ripped out the guts of America and sold them for cheap.
Sen. Mitt Romney’s (R-UT) investment firm Bain Capital profited billions between 1992 and 1997 by collecting huge dividends for investors that eventually resulted in layoffs for thousands of American workers.
In 1984, Romney helped co-found Bain Capitol, which made a series of investments in small and medium-sized American companies, only to turn a profit for investors and leave American workers without a job.
Most prominent are five companies that Romney’s Bain Capital invested in, reaping a profit for himself and investors, and then left to bankruptcy, layoffs, and closure. AOL Finance reported in 2012 on the financial devastation that Romney’s Bain Capital put American workers through.
In 1992, Romney’s Bain Capital invested $5 million in American Pad & Paper and walked away with $100 million in dividends. Nearly 400 American workers in Marion, Indiana, were laid off in the process, and in 2000, the small company filed for bankruptcy.
“I really feel he didn’t care about the workers. It was all about profit before people,” a former worker at the plant, Randy Johnson, told People’s World in 2012.
Johnson said of the layoffs which began in the mid-1990s after AMPAD, acquired by Romney’s Bain Capital, bought the paper company:
They quickly fired every single employee. They walked the fired workers out of the building. Handing them applications as they left, telling the workers if they wanted to work for the new company, they were welcome to apply.
Similarly, Romney’s Bain Capital made an investment in Dade Behring, a manufacturing company that provided supplies for the medical diagnostics industry, of about $415 million in 1994. Romney secured $1.78 billion in dividends for investors while the company filed for bankruptcy and laid off 2,000 American workers in Deerfield, Illinois; Glasgow, Delaware; Westwood, Massachusetts; Miami, Florida; and Puerto Rico.
A number of former Dade Behring employees recalled to the New York Times how their lives were upended when their employers were acquired by Dade at the behest of Romney’s Bain Capital:
Cost-cutting became a mantra inside the company. After his employer, DuPont, was bought by Dade, William T. Mowrey, a field engineer, said his generous pension plan was replaced by a 401(k); his salary was cut by $1 an hour, costing him $2,000 a year in income. When he filed for overtime, he said, his new bosses refused to pay it. “They were just trying to milk as much out of us as they could,” he said. [Emphasis added]
Mr. Mowrey, now 54, quit. Many workers, like Mr. Shoemaker, the Dade employee in Westwood, and his wife, a temporary employee at the same plant, did not leave on their own terms. When they lost their jobs in 1997, they had to abandon plans to buy their first home together. “It created a lot of stress,” said Mr. Shoemaker, 59, who had earned more than $80,000 a year. [Emphasis added]
Romney’s Bain Capital also invested $47 million in the DDI Corporation in 1997 and profited nearly $90 million before the company filed for bankruptcy and laid off 2,100 American workers. In another case, Romney’s Bain Capital invested $60 million in GS International in 1993, securing $65 million in profits before the company went bankrupt in 2002 and laid off 750 American workers.
One of Romney’s most destructive investments for American workers came when Bain Capital purchased Stage Stores in the late 1980s with a $5 million investment before taking the company public in 1996.
In 2000, after Romney’s Bain Capital profited at least $184 million, Stage Stores went bankrupt and close to 6,000 American workers were laid off with more than 300 store locations closing. Almost all of Stage Stores closed in Indiana, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and some 50 stores closed across Texas.
Only after new management took over Stage Stores, long after Romney’s Bain Capital’s involvement, did the retail company begin growing again.
Neo-liberal punks whistle while they walk past the graveyard that is America, and pretend to not see that the Democrat and Republican establishment are working together to destroy the American middle class.
@@hnys7976 ok so you agree that your hero Bill C. Is actually a far right wing Neo Con who also signed into law the Joe (Right winger) Bidens crime bill that has incarcerated many 10s of thousands of people for long sentences for petty crimes. You know why I know that you agree to that? Because they are all hooked into the Neo Con agenda. Both sides. Obama, no different. Wake up!
Perot was right. The two party system will keep shutting out good candidates like him as long as we keep them in power and elections are decided by money. GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS.
Getting money out of politics was on the last democratic presidential election platform. They voted Republican. Go figure
@jayc650 He stopped TPP I respect him for that, hopefully ending the wars are next. Though voodoo economics is always a bad idea, unless you are rich.
@@daveb2759 Sadly, it was only dark money Hillary was going against. She would have won if she picked a progressive for VP, and spoke about policy instead of 90s platitudes.
@@infjintegrityvsnarcissism7295 Hillary was the only one talking about issues. She would have one without Russia's involvement
@@daveb2759 Bernie would have won the primary, if not for Debbie rigging it.
I admit that I was 100% wrong about Perot. I plead insanity because I was young in the early 90's, had not lived life long enough to learn how the world worked beyond text books and professors. In 1993, in California, we had homeless people, but we didn't have tent cities and people living in cars and RV's in large numbers like we do today. Back then, a worker could make a living as a checker in grocery store, buy a home and support a family. You could drive a box truck and make a middle class living. Now both those jobs pay minimum wage or a few dollars above it. Crazy.
inflation one hellavua drug.
The real minimum wage is 0.00
800,000+ good paying U.S. manufacturing jobs permanently lost to Mexico because of NAFTA.
That's because they're hard working people who are happy to work for less, why wouldn't you as a company want to move operations there? I know I would
this is fundamentally incorrect. the assertion you are making is that Mexicans are now, or were, in $40/hr. jobs. this never happened. therefore, the jobs weren't lost to Mexico. instead consider this way of seeing it - they were lost to the international conglomerates that had been destroying labor regulations and environmental protections to make good jobs in to poverty wages. then they tell the ameican public if they want decent jobs back they better learn to play ball, which is of course a false argument because all that will happen it that you'll be working at poverty wages as a slave in an environment where you food causes illness and your water is poisoned.
reelreeler good lol
@@BasedClydeFrog eww
Tariffs would have stopped that. It would have helped us to export our American made products to Mexico. Instead it incentivized American companies to export our manufacturing jobs to Mexico in order to sell those same goods to Mexico. Perot knew it would happen.
This was one great individual. I was in my mid 20's and a proud Texan when he ran for president and knew so many people that worked for EDS and Perot Systems and they really appreciated the way he ran the company. We should have taken his warnings. I saw him at Presbyterian hospital in the parking lot in Dallas a few years ago and he helped me back, by hand waving me, my truck(big farm truck) in the small spaces of the hospital. He then got into his several year old Caprice Classic, or something of that make/model and drove off. Cool experience for sure!
To think that at that time we were only 4 trillion in debt. Sigh
perot was a prophet
@lyles music because its a two party system LOLOLOLOLOLOL
@lyles music to try and become president, and he had an advantage. he took 19 percent of the popular vote away from bush, that was the point of him running. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
oh really ? so how come he didn't know that he wasn't going to win ? lol
7 years after NAFTA was signed, half of the manufacturing jobs left America. Maybe we shouldve listened to Perot.
As of January 2019, minimum wage in Mexico is only around $1.20 per hour.
Great ,correct ,people show minimum wage is unnecessary
Perot was ahead of the curve as always!!
Perot was a good man👍🍀❤️🌹
Gore: You said the war on Iraq would cost the lives of 40,000 troops. You also said there be 100s of banks that would fail, costing Americans 100ms of dollars. You were wrong about that.
*20 years later*
He was actually very right.
Wrong war on Iraq. Obviously they weren’t speaking about the 2004 war. He was right about Desert Storm.
@@superpoliticalguy8276 One could argue that Desert Storm’s failure (and our inability to handle other aspects of the Middle East) led to the bigger one to come.
@@benjamin29471 what failure! It was the most one sided annihilation probably in history!
@@jamiengo2343 It was so dominant we were back there under false pretenses a decade later, thus leading to thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of young men and women coming home with visible and mental damage, not to mention the further emboldening of an enemy (and expansion of the battlefield) against which we still don’t fully understand.
A few good months in the early 90s, followed by that…
All gore shows a graph with a trade surplus the last trade surplus with Mexico was 94
Not only was he wrong he dead wrong
Al Gore was such a smug, condescending tool and he has only become more unbearable over the years...What a glaring disparity between candidates, Ross Perot was a great business man making logical arguments against a trade agreement that ultimately helped to destroy the middle class in this country.
imagine where merica would be had ross been elected for 8 years
A very different place that’s for sure
Perot actually had a point.
He would have won if he stayed in the race.
Al Gore does the same thing here that he tried doing in the debates with Bush a few years later: intimidate, interrupt, and act tough. He's bad at it, and it makes him look bad too.
L N I like how Al Gore has the audacity to talk to Mr Perot like he doesn’t know business. Thank God he never became POTUS.
You know, this debate established Gore's reputation as the "greatest debater in American politics." In hindsight, that assessment was overrated. He didn't know his points better than Perot, he just knew how to get him off his game. His debate with Jack Kemp was an unfair fight because Kemp was not a good debater. But when he faced off against Bush, he completely lost his game - he tried to play the more knowledgeable candidate, forgot his game was to play his opponent's weakness. And Bush was actually a very good debater, probably better than Perot. He took down the renown Ann Richards and won the election for Texas governor.
Gore was such a tool in this
I think Perot would have taken Gore in a fist fight lol
Oh for sure. Gore is softer than pita bread.
Sure Perot was a Naval Academy Graduate and served for 4 yrs, Al reported war stories for 2 yrs for a local newspaper and had 3 months of Vietnam fighting mosquitoes at night.. and headed back home when Daddy Gore called him back.
It always amazed me how Al Gore had any career at all considering his dad was an ex-KKK member.
Imagine if anybody these days got a hold of that information.
The ironic thing Al is saying he was against NAFTA for personal gain, now that is an inconvenient truth.
I have to say Mr. Perot is a very candid and intelligent man for a Texan economist.
I’m actually no fan of Perot for the most part, but why must you insult Texans such? There are 25 million people in that state and TX. is a much more business friendly state than N. York, California etc
@@seansweeney8911 Respect to Texas. Love the state!
One guy cares about his big donors (Gore) the other guy cares about American workers having good jobs (Perot)
30 years later Perot was right. Both countries workers lost out.
Gore is trying so hard to seem big and tough. Perot is just being him self, and actually focusing on the issues
He didn't intimate ross.
Al Gore. where r the jobs?
In the Cartel industry. US/EU bankers make trillions off of it. It brings money in to Mexico...win! win! Unless you're a victim of the violence or substance abuse or the prison industrial complex or the militarization of the police or the continual attack on civil rights by the courts because of the "drug war". Other than that I mean...
Bill Clinton created more jobs than any other president
PissedOffBrits Thanks to the tech boom
At McDonald's
China
I like this format. It's much easier to control the debate when you're sitting at a table with the participants. King did a good job bringing them back to focus when needed, and allowing them to expand when they were making decent points. Whether Gore or Perot had agendas or were selectively dishonest, they were extremely researched and they managed to debate each other without constant interruptions or childish vitriol.
Ross Perot put people over politics. A very compassionate human being.
I live in Alliance three miles from the airport. It’s been everything Perot said it would be. This area exploded.
America needed Perot. He was ahead of his time and he was loyal to his people and his country and proved it whenever pressure tested. We should be seeking people who choose the people, and Mr. Perot was and is a great example.
I watched this in 1993 and I recall Ross calling Gore 'a snake in the grass'. Am I wrong. I see it's cut short.
R.I.P. Ross! Ross is one of the greatest men who ever lived.
Christopher Hitchens had a great line about Al Gore, he called him a “pathetic doormat of a man”
@@wessexfox5197 Sounds about right!
To everyone saying Al Gore was a clown: Al Gore and his associates fully understood what the NAFTA trade deal would do, and they lied through their teeth to sell it. The reason is that some very powerful business interests in charge of their positions of power sought to gain from the cheap labor and easy exportation of goods back to the American market. Simple economics would tell you exactly what Ross Perot tells you, which is why so many trade deals had been bogus in the past. Those same past trade deals supported by the past presidents who now support NAFTA were propped up by the same business interests supporting said presidents. People who could gain a lot from cheap labor overseas sold out working Americans to enlarge their pocketbooks, and saw an easy return in value. Spend some money so the politicians sell it to the people and get voted in so I can reap a lot more money with easy business overseas. Protectionism is called protectionism because it exists to protect your domestic economy. The reason it didn't work for nations like India is because India is on the end of globalization that benefits from increased globalization. Their cheap labor is able to slowly build itself up by selling to the wealthy North American market. Protectionism prevented that by having poor workers making products for poor people, which grows much slower than making products for rich people. Now there's an argument that can be made that allowing these jobs to go overseas is the right thing to do because it allows for the quality of life of these nations to increase and catch up to the industrialized world...except look at how the industrialized world built its modern wealth: off the backs of workers with few rights, few liberties, and too empty of a stomach to protest working conditions. It took decades, centuries by some measurement, for these workers to achieve the quality of life they attained in the United States. Not by economic growth and development, but by fighting for improved rights and working conditions. Any increase in material wealth was because the industrialists needed more people to sell to. Now there are plenty of people to sell to in America, Canada, Europe, Australia and these workers will have to fight for their rights and well being against governments more authoritarian, more economically incentivized to keep them poor, and more influenced by others who wish to gain from cheap labor. If you truly want to help these people, we have to turn their cheap labor into what it is actually worth, not exploit it and say "They're getting paid though".
He was Trump before Trump.
To compare Perot to Trump is a travesty. Ross didn't bankrupt companies.
Trump will not brings the jobs back nether will Biden, bend over Americans
This is the only time I’ve seen Gore speak and not say a word about global warming/climate change.
I personally saw the closure of the last Levi’s Jean factory in the United States. Mr “Even Steven” is one of many politicians that never think America first.
He handles himself well here. Figured out he was debating 2 people and shut it down pretty quick.
Note Gore implying Perot and his family had some personal stake in seeing NAFTA fail......but eventually admitted Perot would do well either way.
He was a great friend to my grandfather and I wish he would have won!!!
This debate raised support of NAFTA from 30% to 50%. It seems that Americans believed Al Gore more than they believed Ross Perot.
First Texan to school Al Gore, seven years later George Bush was the second. I can’t stand both Gore or Bush, but Ross Perot needed to be taken more seriously, he was so right. The Republican Party is now in line with him now. Wish he was years younger so he could have run again in the 2000s after the effects of NAFTA were proved him right. Just imagine he would have been elected in 2012, 2016. I don’t know about 00, 04 maybe 08
The republicans are still not in line with him. They are as useless as the democrats. Trump is in line with him. Americans voting in Clinton twice and nearly electing his evil wife and nearly electing gore, and voting in all the bushes, makes me so mad it almost makes me wish these stupid voters would get stuck with them for a hundred years more. Idiots voted for them and they deserved everything they got. A lot of American voters are reprobate, and it doesn't matter how you explain something that isn't good for them they will never get it or could care less.
Shogun Id say people like Rand Paul are in line with him, I saw Senator Paul is the future of the Republican Party.
@@isaiah4465 WHAT TRUTH!!
I was 12 when he ran for president in 92. Been independent all my life as a result.
Now, MAGA baby.
I was on a huge UA-cam video vortex. Started with how to make a helmet out of cardboard and somehow ended up here 👍🏽
I had no use for Al Gore after this. First of all, a vice President challenging a private citizen to a debate bothered me enough but this "debate" was Perot coming to explain why he was against NAFTA and Gore being a jerk interrupting him, slandering him, and that Smoot Hawley picture was not necessary.
I am proud to say that I Voted for Ross Perot! And PRESIDENT TRUMP!!!
Manuel G Chapa Jr Imagine Gore being President during 9/11... brings shivers to my spine. We were saved from his total idiocy!
Me, too!
Say no to Globalists
Same here
I wish Trump would be more like Perot and less like W. Remember Perot was right about voodoo economics too. Though Trump did stop TPP so that was awesome at least. If Trump was Perot's VP pick they would have won in 92.
Message from the future....nafta blows!
In my opinion, King and Gore are attempting to railroad him, Gore got to finish his points. Perot was being cut off every three seconds.
The fact that we have these same issues but even worse 28 years later is concerning
Rest in peace. Mr. Perot.
The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) were great for multi-national corporate profits since jobs were sent to Mexico due to its far lower labor costs, but millions of higher-paying manufacturing jobs were lost in Canada and the USA.
Al Gore criticizing Perot's opposition to Iraq 1 didn't age well IMO.
Why can't we have casual debates like this on air these days? Oh maybe Hillary have to do so with a teleprompter.
+Morally Superior 100% right
+Morally Superior I can't believe someone as sexy as you could be so intelligent. I was wrong about hot mamas all along.
Because after Perot scared the Dems and Republicans shitless, they both colluded to exclude 3rd party candidates. You can't have casual AND have control, now can you?
Gore spoke eloquently. I believed that he knew and meant better in this debate, but low and behold ROSS PEROT was Right!
wow Did they not say at the beginning no one could be assisted
was AL Gores deaf or have hearing problem or did he get fed his info through assistance
Carla Presley
It's his establishment overloads keeping him on message!
Choice is an illusion... I use to hate when people said that but now I know it's true! No matter what the establishment candidate will always be installed into the Oval Office!!
Larry King's book "How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere" brought me here...In the book Larry made mention of this historic debate.
"He's a great solider, doesn't know anything about business"
Ross sticking up for all people! What a good man!
ross perot is right.
RIP Ross Perot, and Larry King! Two legends.
Perot was the right choice that never was
I miss this man!
Ross Perot would have been a great president
Crazy how much cnn has changed, they wouldn’t dare do something like this in today’s world.
It's weird to me that they had them sit next to each other, kind of like a counseling session and not like a debate.
The _real_ debates were on _Crossfire._
To hear al gore compare himself to thomas jefferson is insulting...
I like the idea of free trade between the North American countries. Free trade is something that, in the long run, benefits everyone imo. But NAFTA wasn't the best way to do it
i loved ole Ross Perot , he sure did make Al Gore look like a idiot to bad he dropped out of the race .
Ross Perot was right.
The real issue was woth China, not Mexico or Canada. Although today some Chinese EVs are being made in Mexico to avoid Chinese tariffs
Good grief. I never thought Al Gore could be so rude.
Gore: "you think they fooled Collin Powell?"
Perot: "he is a great soldier, doesnt know anything about buisness."
Great line
Bingo!
One of the best lines in the debate.... :)
Absolutely Right!!!
Colin Powell lied about WMD’s in Iraq
The issue with Perot was that he was well ahead of his time. Those individuals don't come around very often, but he was clearly one. Amazing how this resonates 25 years later.
Although I was only 9 years old in 1992, I rooted for Perot. I've just always had a soft spot for tough underdogs. I also appreciated the fact that he was a billionaire businessman.
He was 300% right "Since when have you ever known a 3rd world dictator play fair". He saw the future. Our Politicians sold us out. Now almost all our factors are overseas. Over 60% of production is in China and NORAD just announced they created a new division to prepare for war against China??? So, hello - we are going to attack our factories? Any plan to deal with no shipments?
It's insane how conservative democrats were in the 90s. Most were against gay marriage but some were in favor of "same-sex unions", against gays in the military (Clinton's compromise was "don't ask/don't tell), against against healthcare, anti-welfare, for limit immigration etc. They weren't different from today's moderate republicans. If you look at Trump's vs. Bill Clinton's policies in office, Trump was actually slightly more liberal. Trump was more of an isolationist and less in favor of free trade. He set tariffs to encourage more manufacturing in the US. Clinton was in favor of NAFTA, which lowered barriers for trade between the US, Mexico, and Canada. Trump was against it. Trump was a democrat in the 90s and hasn't changed much politically since then.
@@jzen1455 What I remember was Gore's wife was the one screaming the loudest about smut in Hollywood. You don't see that from democrats today.
true but now we need Mexico to help us "turn away" from China, watch Peter Zaihan!
One person on that screen made a lot of accurate predictions about the future. The other two are Larry King and Al Gore.
Ross Perot was an honorable man.
Haha classy statement
Truth
Ross Perot was called out as a hypocrite in this broadcast, by Gore. Firstly going in for Nafta, then doing a 180 on himself. How is he the honourable man?
And unfortunately, even after the Democrats admitted NAFTA was shit and that our trade agreement with China was another bad deal, they never did address NAFTA, and they are pushing to restore the toxic trade deal with China.
Ross was so Right
Nope. She won't be any more finished than Chump.
cinnireseisri Who's laughing now! We had a chance to make American great again with Perot, and now we have a chance to fix these awful trade deals!
@@cinnireseisri Ross Perot founded the Reformist party. "Chump" was a member of that party and ran for president in 1999. He dropped out after winning Florida and Michigan in the primaries. A quick Google search and reading Donald Trumps wikipedia file will confirm this. Now look at you. Egg on your face. Al Gore was wrong then, he was wrong about sea levels. He was wrong about EVERYTHING. You still support him? Then you sit on a throne of lies.
Trump found your jobs for ya
lol these comments didnt age well
Everything about al gore says car salesman to me 🤦♂️
Used car salesman 😆
I wouldn’t buy anything from Al
BINGO !!!
Alex Evans y’all are wrong. A salesman? Yes. But Perot had something a used... and many new car salesmen don’t have. Class.
THIS! is a used car salesman!
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or idiot for the idiots.
NAFTA Was disastrous for the United States worker.
Not really great for other workers. They just made it up to minimal living standards, according to Perot.
It wasn't good for the Mexican worker either.
Mateo. That's not what he said, and the fact is they didn't make our minimal standards. That would've been an improvement for them. It completely destroyed the maize farmers thanks to US subsidies on corn and created the burreros igniting Mexico's cartel war that has killed more people than the Vietnam war did.
I've been using the corn as an example for awhile now. kind of pales next to the drug cartel problem, but then again, most people eat, so it's an easy topic to relate to. The street vendors in Tijuana used to make the best street tacos before NAFTA. They're still delicious, except a couple things: one, the price is pretty high now. They used to be legendary in part because they were so cheap. One reason the price is higher is they have to buy tortillas, and that's the main topic I like to bring up. The way these trade deals go down is on the heads of the poor. Mexico was forced to buy imported corn because, as you said, the US taxpayer was buoying the competition, and with the trade deal in place their hands were tied. So the tacos, while they're still good, are no longer legendary. No more heirloom corn patted into tortillas on a nice hot comal next to the taco stand. Now tortillas come from bags. The Japanese are in the same boat with their rice -- another perhaps thousands-year-old tradition down the drain. The controllers are making their final push for total control. Things are happening fast including the latest from the CDC: indefinite detention of anybody for any length of time and forced medical treatments including vaccinations for their prisoners. There's too much. Even a list would be too long.
Ahnootha Luhva the two are interrelated. the destruction of one part of the economic sector led to the vacuum. people have to eat. overall it's been a very profitable arrangement for the american and EU banks. all it cost was tens of thousands of lives taken and millions more ruined.
Notice how Al Gore kept using filler talk to lengthen his talk. He’s a professional Politician. Ross Perot was always down to the bottom line.
Gore is nothing but a professional bullshit artist. Disgusting that him and Clinton were elected 🤢🤢.
@@tennisball1987 Gore lose because 514 peoples in Florida vote for Bush muhaha
Also Gore was annoying, he was just there to try to insult Perot. Those politicians had jokes about Perots charts "I see u brought your charts" yeah because they r facts and he is speaking to ppl in simple terms, and not talking down to them like Gore does like we r kids.
did we watch the same video? perot kept going on random tangents and couldn’t answer simple questions
This eye-opening interview is seriously making me question my allegiance to the Democratic Party.
Now where do you stand. Has anything changed since President Trump got rid of NAFTA. And with President Trump cut taxes. Have you switched parties yet.
@@marty64thornton USMCA - However these things are massively pencil-fucked by special interests and you're not going to change that no matter who you vote for - by all means vote for the people making the most noise about it for now - but it's only going to change when you have open-source input into and review of policy and a financial system with full transparency so they can't sneak anything past you.
You may want to rethink that.
sites.google.com/site/economistsagainsttrump/
Don't get suckered by the pseudo-economics of the far left and far right. It's a delusion at best, and a deliberate manipulation at worst.
I walked away this year. Wish I had done it earlier.
Both parties knew about this...it's about corporate greed.
Perot saw the future. Al Gore is a clown
An ass clown yes
He was just as bad as “I didn’t inhale”
History has proved Ross was correct
Core never ran a business from up love ya ross
american companies left to get cheap workers
That's why I voted for Ross Perot. He was right, it didn't help raise their standard of living.
If by "them" you mean Mexico, yes, it did.
@@lenardegreen It's not up to America to improve Mexico's standard of living, it's up to Mexico. If Mexico had done a sufficient job there would not be millions of undocumented Mexican immigrants in the US.
The America worker only suffered as a result of NAFTA and Perot has been proven to be 100% correct in those predictions.
Gore: He’s confusing the bad trade deals of the past (done by former presidents and sec. of states) with this one.
Also all former presidents and sec. of states support this deal.
Perot: mic drop
Yep. It's almost as if other countries write our trade agreements with them. I'm tired of living with these disastrous trade policies. The only thing we exported to Mexico through NAFTA was GOOD PAYING JOBS THATS IT!
And GORE was wrong, the great depression was already going on when those tariffs were passed
You mean he LIED.
Holy fucking christ, are you honestly defending the Hawley-Smoot tariffs? There isn't a single economist who believes they did anything but make the depression much worse.
Tyler Tone nah he’s just saying those tariffs didnt start the depression.
@@williamjordan1801 It did start the very worst phase of the depression, globally.
@@tylertone2776 Still what you are saying, trying to defend Gore is wrong. Gore said the tarrifs "started the Great Depression" not that it started another phase of it.
"Under no circumstances can we lower the standard of living of the working American." - FDR
All the unions were with Perot. Al Gore really screwed up on this one.
That was Theodore Roosevelt. Not FDR but I get what your saying.
No smart Union members vote Republican.
There are zero right to work blue states, they're all red republican states.
The only anti Union party is conservative Republicans. They're against collective bargaining, and prevailing wages.
@@Activist4America I mean absolutely, but I’m not quite sure why you’re bringing this up here because Perot wasn’t Republican at all, Perot was Perot. He absolutely had the unions on his side here.
@@akorn9943 No Union endorsed Perot...
@@jacksonhitchcock4087 I just meant on the issue of protectionism and trade deals
Ross was a great man - Gore, what a boring narcissistic propagandist with no interest in talking about the issue.
The establishment in both parties are not for the middle class, hence why they only speak in platitudes.
An inconvenient truth 😂
Lispin Al has always been unbearable.
No, you're just a fool.
Mr. Perot even Broke down Mexican politics down perfectly! Lol
Ross Perrot Should have been our president!
Is Perot insane? Matching wits with the creator of the internet??
Perot was right
Ross Perot was a True American, the Media did not support him also as he was an outsider
some people just blame the media for every thing and any thing!
@@ianjenkins2659 well, they have a point. Remember to put your mask and triple vax
@@ianjenkins2659100% fax.
@@ianjenkins2659 That's true but the narrative from the media was that Perot lost this debate...one guy said Perot was undone like Mccarthy in the 50s...history has I think redeemed Ross.
@@ianjenkins2659why not? Very complicit at the least.
75,000 factories lost in the US due to NAFTA
So 75million jobs, no body, in this great nation, wanted to do, were
lost? What harm in that?? Facts
used by politicos are not facts,
emotional rollercoaster ride gets
buttheads in office!
Has anyone checked on Al’s friend the the tire maker? Bet he went out of business.