Political Corruption

Ross Perot

years ago

If you listen to anything else I’ve said tonight, listen very carefully to this, because this is coming to Washington to cash in and than go get a several hundred thousand a year job as a foreign lobbyist and use your influence in the White House and congress to ship not only jobs overseas bit whole industries overseas.

Between 1980-1985, 76 former Federal officials left office to become registered foreign agents Now this will break your heart. This is like a general switching armies in the middle of a war. They should come to serve and go home not cash in. We got 35 year old boys that have trouble holding a minimum wage job, they don’t have any skills, all they have done is run around and serv as a senior official in Washington, they are making 2 or 300,000 $ a year because they got his ear. Now even worse and I hope you will put your foot down and make both parties throw the cards on the table, they got these people on leaves of absences now working on presidential campaigns, foreign lobbyists working on presidential campaigns. That is like having Russian Spies int the middle of a presidential campaign during the cold war cause we are in a business war now folks go down the list. 8 special assistants to the president of the united states,5 assistants to the United States, 2 deputy assistants to the president of United States, 1 Presidents counselor, 1 Deputy white house press secretary, one Chief of staff to the Vice President of the United States, two US trade representatives, six senators nine members of the house of representatives, 12 senior staff members, 5 senior house staff members, four retired generals, a chairman and a vice chairman of the US International Trade Commission. The sickest thing of all, we had a key guy on the Trade Commission leave and go to the other side in the middle of negotiation. He knew the plans, the strategy, the details. As far as I'm concerned, that's economic treason. If we get there, we are going to clean this mess up on day one.

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