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Some observers, notably Ross Perot, will tell you that you are crazy to vote for Bill Clinton or for George Bush. (They're right about Bush, but not because of the deficit.) These folks will tell you that if the deficit isn't attacked immediately and with austerity measures along the lines of econo-Puritanism, the country will go to hell. They are wrong...
...flaws--one in the reasoning and one in the solution. The first is that parts of the argument require near-xenophobia to work. In a capital market that stretches beyond borders, private investment is easily accessible, even if some of it has to come from foreigners. Even if Perot and the deficitistas are correct in saying that the debt totally crowds out Americans' private savings (and they aren't), the U.S. could (and does) attract foreigners' investment dollars instead...
...Perot and his advisers talk about foreign investment as if it were destroying America. But they vastly overstate the level of foreign investment in the country, and they ignore that relying on foreign investment in itself...
Sleep is to college life as decisiveness is to Ross Perot: elusive, erratic and usually inadequate...
BUSHPEROT CLINTON Non-Answers 3 6 1 Attacks On Perot--3 On Clinton--9 Time Violations--4 On Bush--6 On Clinton--0 Time Violations--1 On Bush--11 On Perot--2 Time Violations--0 Clothes Black suit, dominant red tie with thin white stripes Gray suit, red and blue evenly striped tie Charcoal suit, daring red tie with blue and white stripes Personal References Mentions Barbara twice, admits that divorce happens even in his own family. Didn't mention anyone in his family. "I was born to a widowed mother..." "I grew up in the segregated South..." "Tonight...