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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.
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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
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Ross Perot addresses supporters of his United We Stand America organization at High Point's Showplace in the Park Saturday
governmental reform and the formation
of anew connection between Ameri
cans and Congress. “If we don’t reform
the federal government we won’t get
anything done,” Perot said. “It’s just
that simple. They’re disconnected at the
top, but they’re our servants.”
Perot said his goals were to form a
“government that comes to us, not at us,
a government that stays and doesn’t
cash in on foreign jobs,” and “to put
people, our people, back to work.”
“A growing, expanding economy is
the only way out of the hole,” he said.
Susie Bright, former editor of the na
tional lesbian publication On Our Backs.
Bright, author of “Sexual Reality,”
will give her “sexual state of the union”
address at 7 p.m.
Tuesday will feature a fund-raiser
titled “closet cram contest” in the B
GLAD office in the Student Union.
“We are going to let people guess
how many people can fit in the “closet,”
and then we will cram as many people
as possible into it,” Ferguson said.
Entries for the contest will cost $1
each. The first person whose entry falls
within a pre-determined range will win
dinner for two at Crook’s Comer.
Tuesday’s speaker, Marine Sgt. Jus
tin Elzie, will discuss his experience as
an openly gay Marine at 7 p.m. in Hanes
Art Center. Elzie currently faces an
involuntary discharge from the Marines
because of his sexual orientation.
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affecting homosexuals will include rep
resentatives from the local media and
will conclude Tuesday’s events.
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Advocating a reform process that
would begin at the grassroots level,
Perot addressed the status of the nation’s
educational system. “Ourpublic schools
used to be the best but now rank at the
bottom of the industrialized world,” he
said. “We’ve got to fix that. So, when
school board elections come up, make
sure the best people are elected.”
Perot also stressed the importance of
involving young people in politics.
“We are doing this for (young
people),” he said. “All us old guys could
just live this out, but we want you to be
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Wednesday, two showings of “Ed
ward n,” a movie about the supposed
homosexual king of England, will be
offered in the Union Film Auditorium.
Crae Pridgen, who was assaulted
outside a Wilmington bar in January
because he is gay, will speak at 7 p.m. in
Hanes Art Center auditorium.
Wednesday’s activities also include
a parody of the game show “Jeopardy”
in the Pitand a Gay and Lesbian Music
Show on radio station WXYC.
On Thursday an AIDS awareness
workshop will be held in 208 Union at
2 p.m. and a religious perspectives semi
nar will be held in the Toy Lounge of
Dey Hall at 6 p.m.
Friday will feature a Kiss-In in the Pit
at noon and a rap session on homosexu
ality at 3 p.m. in room 220 of the Union.
Gay men, lesbians and bisexuals will
show affection for each other in public
at the Kiss-In, Ferguson said.
The week will conclude Friday with
a meeting of UNC-system gay student
organizations at 2 p.m. in 205 Union.
first-class citizens. We want you to stay
off drugs, to keep your head clear. A
free society must rest on a strong moral,
ethical basis.”
Perot ended his speech by calling
once again for the audience to support
his organization. “The eagle can’t fly
without the wind beneath its wings, and
this organization is the wind beneath its
wings,” he said.
“We hope all of you will join. To
gether we can ‘climb every mountain
and forge every stream’ for our
children’s future.”
Sangam
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classes into the University’s curricu
lum. Sangam currently is lobbying the
administration to offer Hindi language
courses.
“The only goal we are trying to ac
complish at (Sangam Night 1993), in
terms of our needs, is to gamer support
for our Hindi petition,” Sura said.
Both Duke University and N.C. State
University offer Hindi language classes.
But it was the lure of exotic and
delicious foods, not politics, that drew
most of the patrons to the event.
Sura said the food was prepared by
Sangam members and their parents and
was as diverse as the crowd that con
sumed it.
“We have a food for each person: the
breaded vegetables, the curries and stuff
like that,” Dave said. “We want to give
(guests) samples from all of India.”
The evening’s entertainment kicked
off with a spoof on the far-fetched plots
present in Hindi films and was con
cluded by singing both the Indian and
U.S. national anthems.