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
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 ?
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!
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.
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.
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!
"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
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
Ross Perot turned out to be the real deal. This guy should have been President.
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 $$$$.
“He’s a great soldier but doesn’t know anything about business” - BRILLIANT!
Perot about Colin Powell lol
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
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
Ross is technically correct if a corporation is just transferring capital good from its US to Mexican subsidiary
That’s not an export
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.
@nick 516 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
@@loonasfirstdisciple random tangents directly related to the thing theyre debating rather than just aruging? truly a foreign concept
@@horst9722 Lost because US Supreme Court forced Florida to stop recounting the votes early
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.
RIP chart man, you knew what these traitors were doing to our once great country.
Misguided, but not traitors
Traitors are trump cult members.
@@EnjoyingChaotics~ "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!
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.
Perot was right
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.
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.
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.
I didn't interrupt you
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.
"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
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
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
As of January 2019, minimum wage in Mexico is only around $1.20 per hour.
Great ,correct ,people show minimum wage is unnecessary
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.
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!
Gore was such a tool in this
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!
ua-cam.com/video/l4bzrCy7--I/v-deo.html
or idiot for the idiots.
Perot was right and if he had picked a good VP and held his ground he might have won.
I was a staunch Perot supporter back then & did vote for him but when I saw thr VP debates on TV that night, I can remember sinking deeper into my chair as the debates went on. I knew right thrn & there, he'd lost the race. It was an unfortunate choice
He would have won , that's why they threatened him and forced him to drop out . Then changed the rules and made it impossible for a third party to run for president.
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.
Al Gore needs to shut up and listen. Ross Perot was a real, decent, compassionate man.
Man, Gore is so condescending and rude. Perot's calm, gentle demeaner really highlights what a dick Gore is.
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.
Perot was ahead of the curve as always!!
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!
who the hell looks at Al Gore and sees someone who is genuinely trying to help anyone but themselves
Environmentalists?
Mr. Perot even Broke down Mexican politics down perfectly! Lol
Ross Perot was the last decent chance we had
Ross Perot was exactly right, the amount of companies and jobs that were lost in the United States due to NAFTA is staggering. Workers are paid extremely low wages in Mexico.
So basically Ross Perot was right all along and everyone laughed at him. Great.
He was right. His problem is Gore wouldn't let him make his point. He kept interrupting and ribbing him until he lost his cool. It's the art of the debate.
That's usually the way people are, unfortunately. They all gather around who they're told is popular and eschew those who they're told are not "hip".
@user-zr6pl6nb6z That's true, to an extent. This debate was less about Perot as it was about free trade. His popularity was not at stake here.
At the time of the debate, he looked like someone who failed to make his point. In hindsight, he proved to be right.
@user-zr6pl6nb6z To be fair, you are talking about ability to reason and discern. Discerning people heard both arguments, they had no way of knowing that free trade wouldn't work, for all they knew, Gore could be right - he made his point by making Perot look like an unreasonable curmudgeon.
@@broadstreet21 He didn't fail to make his point. Anyone who had a brain understood what he meant. I was in my early 20s at the time and I got it.
The little moment at 6:10 is so powerful to me. He was always polite and courteous but wasn’t afraid to call out BS where he saw it. I’m not the biggest fan of billionaires just throwing their money around in politics but Mr Perot seemed like he truly did care about the American people. Fly high, sir.
just like Trump
@@FloridaMan69.Trump absolutely does not care about the average American. LOL don’t be a sucker. You can say you like his dogshit policies, but don’t pretend he’s this noble and caring guy.
All gore was wrong we lost Jobs in Nafta and Illegal immigration increased.
Charles Klempner wrong absolutely.. but he knows it. He’s just a complete liar.
Al Gore new Perot was right. He was pushing the agenda he was told to push.
No, we didn't. NAFTA created as many as 200,000 jobs a year.
@@elicrowleyycontreras1135 provide your source cause I can bring one showing the contrary.
@@dkoda840 In a 2015 report, the Congressional Research Service summarized multiple studies as follows: "In reality, NAFTA did not cause the huge job losses feared by the critics or the large economic gains predicted by supporters.
-Wikipedia
Ross Perrot Should have been our president!
Ross Perot was a good, honest man with smart politics that fought for the American people. That's why he wasn't President in 1993. RIP Ross Perot. People like this don't come around in politics often.
Rest in peace Ross you have my respect amongst many others..very sad to hear this!😞🌹 prayers to his family and friends!
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
On 1993/11/09, this debate garnered the highest ever viewer ratings for a regularly-scheduled cable TV program.
The ironic thing Al is saying he was against NAFTA for personal gain, now that is an inconvenient truth.
Crazy how looking back at it ross Perot was spot on
Good grief. I never thought Al Gore could be so rude.
Can anyone believe it’s been 30 years.
Ross Perot would have been the greatest president the USA would ever had .I could watch these old debates all day .
I spent my weekends getting Ross Perot on the ballot. USA manufacturing has been completely gutted just as Ross Perot predicted.
30 years later Perot was right. Both countries workers lost out.
As a Canadian, the government and corporate media in my country also lied about NAFTA and gaslit its critics. Perot was correct about NAFTA, and he was ahead of his time.
Perot was a good man👍🍀❤️🌹
Everything that Perot said back then is relevant today. America has really suffered after NAFTA. Turned many of the boomtowns during war-times into urban blight in 2024.
Ross was the genesis for Donald J Trump.
Mr. Perot was the first presidential candidate I ever voted for. And HE was right then, and he's right today.
RIP sir.
I just wish Trump listened to Perot on voodoo economics not working. Though I am glad he stopped TPP.
don't you ever put Henry Ross Perot's name in the same sentence as shit bag trump
@@snoopyshultz But I did. So now what are ya gonna do?😂
@@Yankee_Redneck6698 what is he gonna do? Recognize your stupidity as a human being for comparing the two
Don't compare Peru to that manchild
Gore doesn't have a clue. Perot is an experienced doer, boots on the ground. He is absolutely right.
I agree. But Gore was good at debating even when he was on the wrong side of the debate. He knows to catch Perot's weakness in his argument and exploit it. Like if Perot cannot give details, he would press him on it, scrutinize it, even if he doesn't have details on his own.
"Livestock have a better standard of living in the US than Mexicans have in Mexico."
ROFL, Perot won it right there and then.
Al Gore in this debate is like a 12 year old being taken to school. He has no clue what's going on.
Perot actually had a point.
He would have won if he stayed in the race.
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.
The country has been going down hill for 50 years, and the whole time politicians have been telling the people things are great.
So true. Thank you for your honesty.
From 1998 to 2021, the U.S. lost more than 5 million manufacturing jobs thanks to the growing trade deficit in manufactured goods with China, Japan, Mexico, the European Union, and other countries. Not shown in the chart are the loss of more than 70,000 manufacturing plants over roughly the same period (1998 to 2019).Jan 31, 2022
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.
RIP Ross
So on point 30 odd years ago
Has anyone checked on Al’s friend the the tire maker? Bet he went out of business.
When I was 17 I put a Ross sign up in my yard of democrat parents I then had to put it in my room. He was right about almost everything
imagine where merica would be had ross been elected for 8 years
A very different place that’s for sure
One guy cares about his big donors (Gore) the other guy cares about American workers having good jobs (Perot)
Auto industry impact: The U.S. auto sector lost approximately 350,000 jobs between 1994-2016, while the auto industry in Mexico added over 400,000 jobs during the same period.
READ MY LIPS: "NO NEW TRADE AGREEMENTS!"
*If only...* Perot was a hero.
I was never a Perot supporter (still would not be)...but some of this was so spot on. He had this debate so right and as usual, AlGore had it so wrong. RIP Mr. Perot. You generated a movement that led to great change in politics.
You’re not a supporter because you’re an idiot
Even though the guy is right you still wouldn’t vote for him. That is what you call an idiot.
It's ironic everyone here hails Perot as being so right, and in a unanimous fashion. Because at the time this debate took place, Gore was widely acclaimed to have won, his victory swung the popular opinion in favor of NAFTA, and established his reputation as the best debater in the nation.
@@broadstreet21 I am shocked to see a response to a comment from 3 years ago, but so be it. First of all, what was Gore acclaimed to have widely won? This particular debate? I don't think so. And certainly not the election. Bush was widely acclaimed to have won that, which is why he became president. I agree that popular opinion swung in favor of NAFTA, which turned out to be policy that both parties regretted after that fact...but that is a separate topic. Most incorrect is the statement that Gore in any way, shape, or form, established himself as a great debater. He instead established himself is as a man of rhetoric and falsification of facts. This was then exacerbated when he pushed "An Inconvenient Truth," full of lies and propaganda. Al Gore made a mockery of his credibility and is now widely considered one of the worst debaters in the nation.
@KeyBorg1 In hindsight, you are right, Gore is considered one of the worst debaters in the history of the nation, only because he was proven wrong. After the fact.
But at the time of this debate, Gore provoked Perot repeatedly until he could not get his point across, and that swung public support in favor of NAFTA.
At the time. Those are the three keywords.
In hindsight, you only get what Perot is saying here because we are living through it.
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.
Ross would have been an EXCELLENT President. Such a practical application of common sense. He inspired me to be an independent. Rest In Peace sir.
I'll never forget this. Thank you for portraying a small man who exemplified great American Courage! What a man!
Ross leans heavy into 'the interruptions are uncivilized, and that to interrupt is creates an invitation to not respond,' to a fair question. With all that being said, being interrupted is annoying as all hell.
He's also predicting the reason behind the border issue. Those pics with the cardboard box homes surrounding the factory should tell u what u need to know
At the twenty seven, twenty minute mark, Perot mentions the national debt at the time, 1993. 4 trillion dollars. The national debt at this time, 2018 is 21 Trillion dollars. FYI.
Do you have the link to the article? I would like to read it.
And who fixed it at least until the next three presidencies lost priorities? Bill Clinton.
@@tylertone2776 He signed NAFTA
@@katadam2186George Bush, Sr Enacted in December 1992.
Trickle Down reagan and Bush Sr created in 1980's including Ross perot.
Ross perot never answered any questions.
@@WilliamOfficeSupply9832 he said the monopolies had to go and wanted silver backed money supply and to end the imperialism; he new they wanted to off shore manufacturing
Watch Ross Perot then watch the librarian detective from Seinfeld and tell me they weren’t inspired by him 🤣
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!
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.
Man could we use
a Ross Perot today
"I know your a good man."
The only quote that Perot was wrong about in this debate.
He had respect for his opponent.
RIP Mr. Perot. 25 years later, on the day of your death, I'm sitting here in my Mexican made Chevrolet watching this.
@Councilman Les Wynan As a former scumbag car salesman I can say it's because a cheaper made Chevy with more options can be bought for less money than a Honda.
Or many folks are just brand loyal because they grew up with good memories of riding in moms or grandpa's Chevrolet.
Because it was the most affordable, thus granting you additional disposable income to spend on more food and necessities? Thank God for NAFTA and the USMCA.
Henry Ross Perot would have been like
medicine for America!
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.
"Now we are back down the common sense."-Perot after Gore talks more B.S., this guy is a legend.
An honest man looks directly into the camera....
Ross Perot should never have dropped out.
We didn't listen!
This didn’t age well. NAFTA was a disaster