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If you're paying $12, $13, $14 an hour for a factory worker, and you can move your… — Ross Perot

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If you're paying $12, $13, $14 an hour for a factory worker, and you can move your factory south of the border, pay $1 an hour for labor... Have no environmental controls, no pollution controls, and no retirement. And you don't care about anything but making money. There will be a giant sucking sound going south.

Ross Perot
1992
★ 4.3

On trade agreements between the U.S. and other countries.

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DeindustrializationGlobal capitalism
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Political debate
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1992
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Ross Perot
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Perot, Ross. Spoken at a presidential debate. Presidential debate. 15 Oct. 1992, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, USA.

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