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In article <167C9BFB8.JHARTLEY@cmsa.gmr.com> JHARTLEY@cmsa.gmr.com writes:
>Given the current excitement over Perot's arrival onto the presidential
>scene, I haven't seen too much negative information about Perot.  So I
>decided to raise some of my concerns about him here. 
>I hope that the story of his personal airport comes out
>in the press.  He portrays himself as protector of the taxpayer.  His
>dealings with Jim Wright and pork barrel politics suggest he is anything
>but interested in the taxpayer's protection.  He is good at belittling
>the government, but he didn't seem to have any problem at all with
>abusing the system to get an airport placed near his property that basically
>services him and his family.  And you payed for it.

Actually, if you think about it, considering the size of his own personal 
income and the amount that he personally pays in income tax.  He probably
paid for it himself.  I don't know the size of the airport but if it is
the size of most of the small rural airports scattered throughout Texas,
the cost is peanuts compared to the tax breaks that most state governments
give to lure relocating industries.  This story of his own personal airport
seems a little far fetched.  I don't know where Perot lives but when I was
working in Gainesville, TX, the biggest economic event in the long history
of the town was the completion of the airport.  It cost a whopping $234,000
and would land c130 cargo planes.  Three new companies relocated to the area
as a result of this construction and added greatly to the declining tax base.
This areas only industries were mobile home manufacturing and oil field
equipment manufacturing.  When I was there the price of crude had dropped
to $13 a barrell and the severe unemployment threatened to bankrupt the city.
It may not make sense to folks crammed together like sardines in the northeast
but out in Texas even little towns like Gainesville with populations of under
10,000 need airports to transport manufactured goods.  They are so far away
from major urban areas that companies just won't come there unless they can
fly their executives into Houston or Dallas on the weekend to see a show.;-)
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public relations office, they did not call it the wealthy elite office;
no, when the drafters of our Constitution set down in words the foundations of
our great country they spoke to the voters of the 1992 Presidential election.