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MODERATOR: After the debate, the candidates[br]will have an opportunity to make a closing

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statement.

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So, President Bush, I think you said it earlier,[br]let's get it on.

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PRESIDENT GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH: Let's[br]go.

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MODERATOR: And I think the first question[br]is over here.

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UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Yes, I'd like to direct[br]my question to Mr. Perot.

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What will you do as President to open foreign[br]markets to fair competition from American

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business, and to stop unfair competition here[br]at home from foreign countries so that we

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can bring jobs back to the United States?

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PEROT: That's right at the top of my agenda.

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We've shipped millions of jobs overseas and[br]we have a strange situation because we have

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a process in Washington where after you've[br]served for a while you cash in and become

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a foreign lobbyist, make $30,000 a month;[br]then take a leave, work on Presidential campaigns,

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make sure you got good contacts, and then[br]go back out.

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Now if you just want to get down to brass[br]tacks, the first thing you ought to do is

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get all these folks who've got these one-way[br]trade agreements that we've negotiated over

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the years and say,

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"Fellows, we'll take the same deal we gave[br]you." And they'll gridlock right at that point

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because,

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for example, we've got international competitors[br]who simply could not unload their cars off

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the ships if they had to comply -- you see,[br]if it was a two-way street -- just couldn't

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do it.

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We have got to stop sending jobs overseas.

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To those of you in the audience who are business[br]people, pretty simple:

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If you're paying $12, $13, $14 an hour for[br]factory workers and you can move your factory

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South of the border, pay a dollar an hour[br]for labor, hire young --

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let's assume you've been in business for a[br]long time and you've got a mature work force

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-- pay a dollar an hour for your labor, have[br]no health care -- that's the most expensive

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single element in making a car -- have no[br]environmental controls, no pollution controls

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and no retirement,

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and you don't care about anything but making[br]money, there will be a giant sucking sound

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going south.

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So we -- if the people send me to Washington[br]the first thing I'll do is study that 2,000-page

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agreement and make sure it's a two-way street.

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One last part here -- I decided i was dumb[br]and didn't understand it so I called the Who's

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Who of the folks who've been around it and[br]I said, "Why won't everybody go South?"

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They say, "It'd be disruptive." I said, "For[br]how long?"

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I finally got them up from 12 to 15 years.[br]And I said, "well, how does it stop being

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disruptive?"

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And that is when their jobs come up from a[br]dollar an hour to six dollars an hour,

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and ours go down to six dollars an hour, and[br]then it's leveled again.

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But in the meantime, you've wrecked the country[br]with these kinds of deals. We've got to cut

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it out.

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MODERATOR: Thank you Mr. Perot.