Ross Perot Was Right About America But Nobody Listened

Read the first chapter of How Britain Stopped Making Things free: https://mettlehistory.co.uk ----------------- What you just heard was one man's answer to a simple question, put to him by a voter on live television in nineteen ninety-two: what will you do, as president, to bring American factory jobs back home? The man answering was Ross Perot — a self-made Texas billionaire running for president as an outsider, against both Bush and Clinton. But instead of giving a speech, he gave a warning. He named exactly what would send the work south. He named the towns it would empty. He even named the year the damage would stop. America signed the deal anyway — and around eight hundred and fifty thousand of those jobs went exactly where he said they would. Some of what Perot predicted that night came true, almost to the year. Some of it did not. Working out which is which is the whole story of what happened to American manufacturing — and to do that, you have to go back to a time when a single factory shift could still buy a man a house, a car, and a future.