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...this still matters, despite Perot's exit. As they are all saying now, including George Bush and Bill Clinton, your anger over our national mess is a source of political energy that should be harnessed, a message that must be heard...
...Perot has bequeathed you an economic program that would hurt. Some of it is good; none of it is new. Its elements have long been advocated by experts and by politicians he reviled. He may yet help sell parts of it from the sidelines. But how many of you would have continued to back him so enthusiastically if he had unveiled that program before rather than after pulling...
...what you need, if you want to change the status quo, is not one Perot but many...
Find yourselves a Perot to lead a crusade to control entitlements (which Ross himself advocates). That will mean taking on the well-to-do elderly, the most self-centered special-interest group in the country, and persuading them that only by curbing some of their benefits will we reduce the deficit and that this is ultimately in their own interest...
...foreign policy as entitlement programs are to domestic affairs. Getting tough on either is considered politically suicidal, especially in a presidential-election year. Cowardice continues to dominate discussions about cutting Social Security and Medicare. Everyone knows the deficit will remain unmanageable until those programs are trimmed, but only Ross Perot has seriously proposed whacking them -- and Perot, on the sidelines, is the ultimate coward...