1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,790 MODERATOR: After the debate, the candidates will have an opportunity to make a closing 2 00:00:03,790 --> 00:00:04,930 statement. 3 00:00:04,930 --> 00:00:08,980 So, President Bush, I think you said it earlier, let's get it on. 4 00:00:08,980 --> 00:00:10,620 PRESIDENT GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH: Let's go. 5 00:00:10,620 --> 00:00:13,250 MODERATOR: And I think the first question is over here. 6 00:00:13,250 --> 00:00:17,560 UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Yes, I'd like to direct my question to Mr. Perot. 7 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:23,380 What will you do as President to open foreign markets to fair competition from American 8 00:00:23,380 --> 00:00:29,289 business, and to stop unfair competition here at home from foreign countries so that we 9 00:00:29,289 --> 00:00:31,589 can bring jobs back to the United States? 10 00:00:31,589 --> 00:00:35,260 PEROT: That's right at the top of my agenda. 11 00:00:35,260 --> 00:00:42,260 We've shipped millions of jobs overseas and we have a strange situation because we have 12 00:00:43,210 --> 00:00:46,910 a process in Washington where after you've served for a while you cash in and become 13 00:00:46,910 --> 00:00:52,260 a foreign lobbyist, make $30,000 a month; then take a leave, work on Presidential campaigns, 14 00:00:52,260 --> 00:00:55,359 make sure you got good contacts, and then go back out. 15 00:00:55,359 --> 00:00:58,570 Now if you just want to get down to brass tacks, the first thing you ought to do is 16 00:00:58,570 --> 00:01:01,879 get all these folks who've got these one-way trade agreements that we've negotiated over 17 00:01:01,879 --> 00:01:03,000 the years and say, 18 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:07,840 "Fellows, we'll take the same deal we gave you." And they'll gridlock right at that point 19 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:08,700 because, 20 00:01:08,700 --> 00:01:13,290 for example, we've got international competitors who simply could not unload their cars off 21 00:01:13,290 --> 00:01:18,580 the ships if they had to comply -- you see, if it was a two-way street -- just couldn't 22 00:01:18,580 --> 00:01:19,560 do it. 23 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:23,820 We have got to stop sending jobs overseas. 24 00:01:23,820 --> 00:01:27,480 To those of you in the audience who are business people, pretty simple: 25 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:33,030 If you're paying $12, $13, $14 an hour for factory workers and you can move your factory 26 00:01:33,030 --> 00:01:36,130 South of the border, pay a dollar an hour for labor, hire young -- 27 00:01:36,130 --> 00:01:39,350 let's assume you've been in business for a long time and you've got a mature work force 28 00:01:39,350 --> 00:01:44,540 -- pay a dollar an hour for your labor, have no health care -- that's the most expensive 29 00:01:44,540 --> 00:01:49,610 single element in making a car -- have no environmental controls, no pollution controls 30 00:01:49,610 --> 00:01:52,200 and no retirement, 31 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:56,740 and you don't care about anything but making money, there will be a giant sucking sound 32 00:01:56,740 --> 00:01:57,570 going south. 33 00:01:57,570 --> 00:02:04,120 So we -- if the people send me to Washington the first thing I'll do is study that 2,000-page 34 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:07,740 agreement and make sure it's a two-way street. 35 00:02:07,740 --> 00:02:11,640 One last part here -- I decided i was dumb and didn't understand it so I called the Who's 36 00:02:11,640 --> 00:02:15,390 Who of the folks who've been around it and I said, "Why won't everybody go South?" 37 00:02:15,390 --> 00:02:17,360 They say, "It'd be disruptive." I said, "For how long?" 38 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:20,700 I finally got them up from 12 to 15 years. And I said, "well, how does it stop being 39 00:02:20,700 --> 00:02:21,340 disruptive?" 40 00:02:21,340 --> 00:02:24,750 And that is when their jobs come up from a dollar an hour to six dollars an hour, 41 00:02:24,750 --> 00:02:27,500 and ours go down to six dollars an hour, and then it's leveled again. 42 00:02:27,500 --> 00:02:31,840 But in the meantime, you've wrecked the country with these kinds of deals. We've got to cut 43 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:32,110 it out. 44 00:02:32,110 --> 00:02:33,310 MODERATOR: Thank you Mr. Perot.