WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:03.790 MODERATOR: After the debate, the candidates will have an opportunity to make a closing 00:00:03.790 --> 00:00:04.930 statement. 00:00:04.930 --> 00:00:08.980 So, President Bush, I think you said it earlier, let's get it on. 00:00:08.980 --> 00:00:10.620 PRESIDENT GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH: Let's go. 00:00:10.620 --> 00:00:13.250 MODERATOR: And I think the first question is over here. 00:00:13.250 --> 00:00:17.560 UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Yes, I'd like to direct my question to Mr. Perot. 00:00:17.560 --> 00:00:23.380 What will you do as President to open foreign markets to fair competition from American 00:00:23.380 --> 00:00:29.289 business, and to stop unfair competition here at home from foreign countries so that we 00:00:29.289 --> 00:00:31.589 can bring jobs back to the United States? 00:00:31.589 --> 00:00:35.260 PEROT: That's right at the top of my agenda. 00:00:35.260 --> 00:00:42.260 We've shipped millions of jobs overseas and we have a strange situation because we have 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 00:00:46.910 --> 00:00:52.260 a foreign lobbyist, make $30,000 a month; then take a leave, work on Presidential campaigns, 00:00:52.260 --> 00:00:55.359 make sure you got good contacts, and then go back out. 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 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 00:01:01.879 --> 00:01:03.000 the years and say, 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 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:08.700 because, 00:01:08.700 --> 00:01:13.290 for example, we've got international competitors who simply could not unload their cars off 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 00:01:18.580 --> 00:01:19.560 do it. 00:01:19.560 --> 00:01:23.820 We have got to stop sending jobs overseas. 00:01:23.820 --> 00:01:27.480 To those of you in the audience who are business people, pretty simple: 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 00:01:33.030 --> 00:01:36.130 South of the border, pay a dollar an hour for labor, hire young -- 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 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 00:01:44.540 --> 00:01:49.610 single element in making a car -- have no environmental controls, no pollution controls 00:01:49.610 --> 00:01:52.200 and no retirement, 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 00:01:56.740 --> 00:01:57.570 going south. 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 00:02:04.120 --> 00:02:07.740 agreement and make sure it's a two-way street. 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 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?" 00:02:15.390 --> 00:02:17.360 They say, "It'd be disruptive." I said, "For how long?" 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 00:02:20.700 --> 00:02:21.340 disruptive?" 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, 00:02:24.750 --> 00:02:27.500 and ours go down to six dollars an hour, and then it's leveled again. 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 00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:32.110 it out. 00:02:32.110 --> 00:02:33.310 MODERATOR: Thank you Mr. Perot.