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Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, has Died at age 89:
Billionaire, philanthropist and former presidential candidate Ross Perot has died, CBS News has confirmed. He was 89.
Perot died in Texas, the state where he was born, surrounded by family.
[...] In 1992, Perot made a name for himself when he became the most successful non-major party presidential candidate in 80 years, amassing 19 percent of the popular vote, running against President George H.W. Bush and Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton.
As a boy in Texarkana, Texas, Perot delivered newspapers from the back of a pony. He earned his billions in a more modern way, however — by building Electronic Data Systems Corp., which helped other companies manage their computer networks.
Yet the most famous event in his career didn't involve sales and earnings; he financed a private commando raid in 1979 to free two EDS employees who were being held in a prison in Iran. The tale was turned into a book and a movie.
Perot first became known to Americans outside of business circles by claiming that the U.S. government left behind hundreds of American soldiers who were missing or imprisoned at the end of the Vietnam War. Perot fanned the issue at home and discussed it privately with Vietnamese officials in the 1980s, angering the Reagan administration, which was formally negotiating with Vietnam's government.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 10 2019, @02:30PM (4 children)
What I would propose is that the Commander in Chief starts using the military properly to start helping people instead of killing them. I guarantee you emergency shelters (which aren't supposed to be jail detention, BTW) are cheaper than his wall. Providing real and meaningful medical care to those inbound is far cheaper than the gulags being established now and then needing to send people to the emergency room because they were not properly assessed on coming in. In any national disaster worldwide armed forces resources are immediately prepared to mobilize and prepared to respond. What I would propose if the border emergency is truly an emergency as our President oh so lovingly designated it for his precious wall is that he could then also send FEMA there to provide humanitarian relief. What I would propose is that Trump gets the fuck out of the way of the State Department and enables them to work with the nations where all these people are coming from in order to help address their problems instead of allowing United States Capitalism to fist-fuck those countries into such situations. Make no mistake about it: The United States created this situation and actively induced it to occur.
The loudest howlers in Congress are screaming at the, "Fuck you, we got ours!" attitude that is providing a meaningless border wall expansion, as if the refugees won't still get around the barricades by any weak spot necessary. They are saying we do indeed need a secure border, and the President is completely wrong about the way he is trying to provide it.
Or the United States could simply stop trying to be the Empire of the World. Either solve the world's issues or stop dominating it, because the rest of the world will tire of it sooner rather than later and do something about it. We probably don't want to be around for that solution.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 10 2019, @03:47PM (3 children)
Posse Comitatus, genius. The military can't assist in law enforcement. Don't you remember how the left stamped their feet and beat their chests when Trump wanted to send the military to the border? They can certainly stop an invasion though and it's starting to look like a fifth column invasion.
I've got a better idea. No more granting asylum requests unless the grantee is being persecuted by his home state. Economic refugees are not asylum seekers. Summary judgement at the border followed by a bus ticket back to their shithole of origin. It's funny at how much you progressives got your panties in a wad over Trump rightfully calling out those places as shitholes, but somehow they are so bad that families can't go back there. Sounds like the definition of shithole to me.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday July 10 2019, @04:21PM (2 children)
Defense of the border in the face of invaders is not "law enforcement". It's exactly what the military was intended for.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 10 2019, @06:14PM (1 child)
Off your rocker, like waaaaay off.
You need meds, for a military man (so you say) you are apparently beyond out of touch, budding little fascist that you are.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday July 10 2019, @06:24PM
Maybe you've heard of Sun Tzu. The bestest and fastest and easiest way to defeat yourself is to lose the will to win. That is almost half of America today, and half or more of Europe.