There were others in the alternative media speaking the same thing and amplifying it, but of course the media didn't want it out, snce there is no profit in it. The wealthy don't need a conspiracy, they just do what is in their best interest. Same result. And of course mainstream Americans didn't listen to it and decried it as protectionist. Well fuck it, I have been a protectionist in practice since 1966.
that f-king bitch hillary was asked a question in the debates, whether perot was right about nafta she just gave that smug witch laugh, and dismissed the question with 'all i remember was a bunch of charts - ha ha' those charts clearly spelled out a warning, and a choice about debt and globalism not heeded, people now wonder how bad the damage will be, and how much will be recoverable the word 'depression' had never been used in my lifetime to describle the immidiate future a curse on all those who dismissed what perot was saying
I was only 9 at the time, but I remember my moderately conservative father looking me directly in the eyes when Ross Perot was buying prime time television, and explaining how free trade was going to ultimately decimate the middle class, and telling me "see that man, son?...He's the only person who is actually telling the truth." That was 1988. Ross Perot ran as an independent, and received 19% of the vote - the most any independent candidate for POTUS has ever garnered.
It was actually 1992........ No wonder you voted for Joe Biden. At least you didn't say "I saw Perot on streaming video......."
He got 19% alright. I wonder how it would have turned out if he hadn't pulled out of the race when the Dems threatened to ruin his daughter's wedding? He might have got 50% more than that, which would have made him a serious contender.
Why not put your partisan politics aside for once and ALSO acknowledge the "Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000" which allowed for the creation of $35 TRILLION in credit default swaps trading "unregulated" without any oversight whatsoever, AND the trading of power and energy contracts ( ie. ICE for WTI trading under the good folks in Dubai and London ) over electronic platforms and under ZERO oversight or jurisdiction of the CFTC? We can all thank the likes of House Reps, Ewing and Bliley for that along with their counterparts in the Senate such as Dick Lugar, Peter Fitzgerald, Phil "Enron" Gramm, and Chuck Hagel. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_Futures_Modernization_Act_of_2000 Absolutely brilliant!!!
Trump is a clown...his Vegas property is a bust and from what I have seen Chicago will be his next bust...good ideas in bad times will catch up with!
One item over looked by the mainstream media is this: Bush/Cheney had armed free lance regulators that would take people out of apartments, put on a bus and taken to a new subdivision. They were FORCED to buy at least one, if not two, homes. Most of these poor innocence victims tried to run but were caught, brought back to the sales office. Witnesses said it was horrible. The builders would force them to accept free appliances, and in some outlandish cases, even free big screen TV. These poor vicims were forced to move out of their old apartment and actually live in the new house. The inhumanity of man, LOL Ross Perot is/was a nut job....Al Gore prevailed in a debate with him....fabricated story of daughter's wedding to save embarrasment of leaving race....conspiracy nut....last seen waving at traffic off I-20 holding up pie charts.... Without Perot, Bush senior is re-elected...Clinton is Pres of Tyson Chicken....who would have been elected in 1996??? It is a world economy....US needed to have NAFTA....auto industry is an example of ignoring facts and reality... SteveD
Maybe you didn't read the article, but all of these relationships are going bad. He can't sell the condo units and he can't move the retail. The one thing this project has going for it is that is really is a beautiful building...not at all cheesy or gaudy like most of his other projects. There will be buyers coming forward, but his days building in Chicago are finished. That is a guarantee.