4 HThe Daily Tar Heel/Monday, March 29, 1993 Perot tells supporters to keep close watch on congressmen By Alia Smith Staff Writer HIGH POINT Former indepen dent presidential candidate Ross Perot issued a call for American awareness and stumped for his political organiza tion in a speech Saturday to hundreds of N.C. supporters. “If we are too arrogant and compla cent to come together and fix our coun try, then we deserve our fate,” Perot said. Perot was invited to speak at High Point’s Showplace in the Park by United We Stand North Carolina, a branch of United We Stand America, his national group. He focused on the problems fac ing modem government and tried to entice prospective supporters to join his organization. He praised his supporters and urged them to use their voting power to send competent leaders to Washington. “More precious than money is your vote,” Perot said. “We send good people to Washington, but it is a strange sys tem. When you leave the business world and enter Never-Never Land, it’s a cul ture shock.” Perot emphasized the need to make the nation’s troubled economy a top political priority and said he thought the Clinton administration’s promises of a reduced national debt would fall through. “Don’t forget that everybody west of 208 W. Franklin St. • 968-FAST f Tzpokey TgumbysaTo! i 4™ i $6.36 i ■TAEELSea-!PMifYSPKiA£I ! $8.92 : $10.42 ! Jj6” 1-Item Pizza & 2 Sodas2o” 1-Item Pizza CRITICAL ISSUES in Higher education Race, Gender & Radicals “If some Kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan wanted to devise an educational curriculumfor the specific purpose ofhandicapping and disablingblackAmericanshe would not likely come up with anything more diabolically effective than Afrocentrism. ” yum .... •? .if. Today, March 29, at 8:00 P.M., prominent historian,twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize and Kennedy administration official Arthur Schlesinger Jr., will speak at UNC's Hill Hall Auditorium on "The Disuniting of America." Sponsored by the Office of the Student Body President and Carolina Union Forum Committee the Mississippi’s income taxes go just to pay off the national debt,” he said. “Pretty soon it’ll be all the way to the coast. We’re going to go into debt an other trillion dollars by the end of Clinton’s presidency. “Right now, Washington assumes that money falls out of the sky, but I must explain that it comes out of the sweat of the brow of the taxpayers,” he said. “They don’t say ‘tax and spend,’ they say ‘contribute and invest.’ Well, let’s just call a dog a dog.” Focusing on what he said were ex cesses in government spending, Perot called for cuts in congressional perks. “We’ve got 1,200 airplanes to fly senior officials around,” he said. “They can go to the airport, lose their luggage, eat a bad meal and get a taste of reality.” He added that Americans must moni tor their congressmen to prevent waste ful spending. “They’ve got a spending program under every rock,” Perot said as he asked Americans to write their congressmen to demand a balanced budget amendment and a presidential line item veto. He said some of the nation’s balloon ing debt could be trimmed by cutting unnecessary government jobs, includ ing public relations consultants, enter tainment committees, members of the White House staff and foreign lobby ists. “At least some jobs aren’t shrink ing.” Perot also urged the audience to ask STATE AND NATIONAL for moral and fiscal responsibility from theirrepresentativesinCongress. “Con gressmen should set the highest moral, ethical standards in the country,” Perot said. “They should give us the whole picture, not just pieces. We need to tell them to be careful, not reckless with our money. Every federal check should say, ‘the people’s money.’ “Do we really need to spend one million dollars to see how many people ride bikes or how many dogs and cats there are in some town in California?” he asked. Calling the presence of foreign lob byists in the Clinton administration “economic treason,” Perot said he wanted to oust them along with political action committees in order to bring com panies and jobs back to America. “If we can’t get rid of the cancer of foreign lobbyists, we won’t have any jobs,” he said. “We need selfless people in government, good hard-working citi zens who, like the Salvation Army, just do it with no hidden agenda.” Perot added that both the Bush and Clinton campaigns had been run by former foreign lobbyists and that there were former foreign lobbyists in high government positions, including U.S. Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown. He chided the lobbyists for enticing large corporations to move overseas, a policy that he said took jobs away from Americans. “God help the average American worker,” Perot said. “The two principle exports going out of New York are scrap metal and paper, which are shipped to Japan. Our government hates big successful companies. “Today our best and brightest people with MBAs from Harvard and Stanford, have to hit the street and look for work because we just don’t have the indus trial base we used to,” Perot said. But Perot added that he had confi dence in the country’s ability to deal with its economic troubles. “The prob lems we face today are nothing to what we’ve had before and solved,” he said. Perot outlined the objectives of United We Stand America as being Week has done extensive research on the Pink Triangle,” Staley said. The triangle was an equilateral tri angle German Nazi officials required gay men to wear to declare their illegal sexual orientation, Staley said. “I think he’s going to do a chalk drawing of the Pink Triangle and per form in it,” she said. “He also might shave his head.” Today’s featured speaker will be K wmmL B