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...more Socialist labour Party voters (one)than Rose Perot voters (zero). We did and do a lotof volunteer work, sports and excercise, read alot, attend cultural events. We are overwhelminglysatisfied with are balance we struck between workand family. When I compare us with my husband'sHarvard class of 1944, I find they are moreRepublican, more wealthy and more divorced...
...starkness of the choice will have an interesting effect. It leaves little room in the center for a serious third-party candidate. Even as unserious a man as Ross Perot could run a serious campaign in 1992, when the feckless Republicanism of George Bush was put up against the mushy liberalism of Bill Clinton. A large opening was left for a pragmatic outsider who promised to get under the hood and fix things...
Third-party thinking thrives on a sense that the two parties are both corrupt and directionless, interested in their own tenure rather than real reform. And the most urgent business in need of reform-the wellspring of the Perot campaign-was the yawning federal deficit that a Republican President and a Democratic Congress were unable and unwilling to do anything about...
...trillion debt. This year the government will pay $235 billion in interest, an amount that exceeds its deficit of $176 billion. Without further deficit reduction, the Congressional Budget Office estimates, annual interest payments by 2002 would balloon to $334 billion -- money that goes to bondholders such as Ross Perot, who in 1992 reported that a chunk of his then $3.3 billion fortune was invested in low-risk government securities. Interest is one of the items targeted for massive cuts under G.O.P. budget plans -- $155 billion under Senator Pete Domenici's proposal. Moreover, the cbo states, mere passage of a credible...
...people responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing should be "tried, sentenced and executed pretty fast," Ross Perot remarked at the National Press Club today. "We don't need anO.J. trial."Oklahoma Explosion Page