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front matter
The LaRouche-Bevel Program to Save the Nation
Reversing 30 Years of Post-Industrial Suicide
Independents for Economic Recovery, LaRouche for President
Leesburg, Virginia
October 1992.
- Contents -
Preface
Introduction
Meet the Candidates
Chapter 1: Why We Are Suffering Through a New Great
Depression
Chapter 2: Solving the Fresh Water Crisis
Chapter 3: Building New Railways, Waterways, and Highways
Chapter 4: Mag-Lev: The Technology of the 21st Century
Chapter 5: Nuclear Fission: Bridge to Fusion Power
Chapter 6: The Best Health Care for Every American
Chapter 7: Restore Literacy and Classical Education
Chapter 8: LaRouche's Program for 6 Million New Jobs
Chapter 9: `Jumpstart' for the U.S.A. from the `Productive
Triangle'
Chapter 10: Great Projects to Develop the World
Chapter 11: Frontier in Space: LaRouche's Moon-Mars
Program
LaRouche on America's National Purpose
Chapter 12: Revive Family Farming and Feed the World
Chapter 13: LaRouche's Program for a War on AIDS
Chapter 14: Why LaRouche Calls NAFTA `Auschwitz Below
the Border'
Chapter 15: How the United States Became a Police State
{The Theological and Constitutional Alternative to
the Death Penalty} by the Reverend James L. Bevel
Appendix: The LaRouche-Bevel Announcement
Appendix: Proposed Federal Reserve Nationalization Act of 1992
- Preface -
This book presents the program of independent presidential
candidate Lyndon H. LaRouche and his vice-presidential
running mate, the Reverend James Luther Bevel, to create 6 to
8 million jobs during the first months of their
administration. It outlines the emergency economic measures
through which the current world depression can be ended,
including 1) declaring a national economic emergency; 2)
constitutionalizing the Federal Reserve; 3) undertaking
needed large-scale infrastructure and development projects in
the areas of transportation, energy production, water,
education, and health care; and 4) implementing international
and domestic debt restructuring and moratoria.
The program that the LaRouche-Bevel ticket proposes
was successfully implemented during the era of President John
F. Kennedy's space program, and before that, during the later
years of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt presidency. It was
successfully implemented by our greatest President, Abraham
Lincoln, even in the midst of a bloody civil war.
Today, the LaRouche-Bevel program--known during the last
century as the American System--represents the only hope for
a world that is financially and economically bankrupt and
filled with starvation, disease, unemployment, poverty,
terrorism, civil strife, and increasing desperation. Can we
fail to act at a time when we know that the drug-infested
schools of our nation are threatening the destruction of the
hearts and minds of our children? Can we fail to act when we
see the starving and terrified faces of children fleeing from
war-torn Bosnia? Do we see not only terrible, personal
anguish, but the beginnings of European-wide and worldwide
conflict and war?
We are losing generations of our young people because of
a neo-Malthusian economic policy, imposed on the nation since
the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy. Since the murder
of Kennedy, every American President has helped implement
this post-industrial policy. Industry and agriculture have
been abandoned for real estate and commodities speculation,
junk bonds, and communications ``industries.'' Shopping centers,
office towers, and mobile phones have replaced factories and
farms. MacDonald's is one of our nation's largest employers;
at thousands of hamburger outlets across the country, young
people serve up McMuffins and Big Macs, but don't know
how to make change without a computerized cash register.
Meanwhile, America's highly skilled steel and machine-tool
workers have been put out of work and/or placed into
low-skilled jobs. Our workforce is either unemployed or
underemployed.
We are creating economic disasters within the recently
emerged democracies of eastern Europe by insisting that they
also tear down their industry and implement radical free
trade doctrines. Lyndon LaRouche has demonstrated that the
collapse of the Third World economies and the destruction of
the economic base of eastern Europe is a result of a colonial
economic doctrine administered through the
``conditionalities'' austerity policies of the International
Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Colonial policy calls for
abandoning industry and growing cash crops for export which,
for many nations in Ibero-America and elsewhere, increasingly
has become marijuana and cocaine. This policy turned inward
has created a United States that increasingly resembles a
Third World country where the middle class, made up of
skilled blue collar and white collar workers, shrinks, and
more and more people are impoverished.
This book presents the alternative. The LaRouche-Bevel
ticket has outlined a program that can restore economic,
political, and social justice to the nation and the world.
The LaRouche-Bevel ticket opposes the North American Free
Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the GATT proposal because they
are colonialist, radical free trade doctrines that are designed
to destroy the last remnant of economic independence
remaining to farmers and the labor movement. To restore the
principles of redemptive justice to this country, their
campaign has called for ending the barbaric practice of
capital punishment. They have also called for opening the
files on the Kennedy and King assassinations and the
politically motivated incarceration of Lyndon H. LaRouche.
LaRouche and his associates have led a decades-long
battle against the drug mafias and the colonial policies of
the IMF and the World Bank which spawned them. Reverend Bevel
brings to the ticket a wealth of experience.
He served as director of non-violent political
action for Martin Luther King; was leader of the Children's
March in Birmingham, Alabama; helped lead the Selma Right to
Vote movement; and served as director of the Mobilization to
End the War in Vietnam.
During recent years, Reverend Bevel has devoted his
energies to the organization of Precinct
Councils, which involves engaging communities in political
actions that strengthen the individual and community
comprehension of constitutional processes. Reverend Bevel has
also called for putting prayer and classical education back
into the schools, where drugs and the teaching of so-called
alternative lifestyles have become a substitute for real
education.
The political combination of LaRouche and Bevel brings
together defined economic alternatives to the colonial
destruction of the world, together with the best of the
leadership and the hopes and aspirations of the civil rights
movement. The LaRouche-Bevel ticket provides hope for the
voters, who hitherto have been offered the
lesser-of-two-evils alternative of George Bush and Bill
Clinton. Now there is a choice. The responsibility for the
outcome of this year's presidential election is with you, the
voter. Your vote can determine the course of history.
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John Covici
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- Introduction -
As of this point, the world has officially entered
into the second and greatest worldwide depression of the
20th century. Ironically, this new depression began in
London, 61 years to the week after the collapse of the
pound in September 1931 unleashed what is called, in
memory of us older folk of the present day, the Great
Depression. Ironically, it also occurred about 650 years
after the greatest financial crash in medieval or modern
European history. This occurred in 1342, when the king of
England repudiated England's debts to the banking houses
of Bardi and Peruzzi and so forth, the usurious banking
houses which had caused the plunge of Europe into a New
Dark Age, as it was called, as a result of their practice
of usury,@s1 or, shall we say, their practice of the
measures introduced in our own recent history by former
Federal Reserve Chairman Paul A. Volcker.@s2
You don't hear much about that depression from the
political campaigns. The Bush campaign and the Clinton
campaign are ducking the issue. Oh yes, they are all
talking about economic recovery. One is worse than the
other. Bush, Clinton, and Perot, thus far, are proposing
nothing but what we know from the 1920s and 1930s as
Mussolini-style fascism.@s3 Underlying the fact that these
gentlemen, so far, have apparently not the slightest idea
of what to do about the new Great Depression, is the fact that
they are all thinking in terms of increasing taxes,
(although George says he won't do it), and cutting
entitlements and other federal expenditures and state
expenditures savagely. What they're proposing--increasing
taxes and cutting budgets--will not work. In fact, it will
make the problem worse.
The reason we have budget crises is not that we have
spent too much. We may have spent on things we shouldn't
have spent for. But it's not that we're spending too much
money. The problem is that there is not enough tax
revenue, and not because we are not taxing people enough.
We could tax the speculative capital gains sector much
more heavily, but in general we're already overtaxing
ordinary households of ordinary families. The problem is
that we don't have enough tax revenues because the economy
is collapsing, because too many people are either
unemployed, underemployed, or employed at such low
incomes that they can't even support their families with
the miserable pittance they receive for some terrible
service job.
Obviously the only way this problem is going to be
solved is to increase the number of people who are working
and to increase the level of productive technology
employed by our labor force.@s4 In other words, we have to
increase the tax revenue base of state and federal
governments without increasing the tax rates, particularly
the tax rates on ordinary productive businesses or on
ordinary family households. Yes, tax the speculators as
much as you choose; dry speculation into extinction. That
would not be a bad thing. But don't tax industry, don't
tax farms, don't tax infrastructure, and don't tax the
normal family household any more than they are already
being taxed. In fact, in some cases we should have
reductions on the lower end and tax incentives to certain
businesses. That is the only way we're going to bring the
economy into balance and get out of the depression.@s5
But none of the other candidates are willing to do
that for a very simple reason: Because they are appealing
to--one could use some very unpleasant words, but I
shan't--they are appealing, or playing up to popular
delusions which are associated with submission to the big
financial powers, the big financial families, the big
financial foundations, and the national news media which
is controlled together with the major entertainment media,
by those wealthy parasites who control our society.
The problem with Bush's program, the problem with
Clinton's program, the problem with Perot's program, is
that they are all playing into the hands of parasites. For
example, Felix Rohatyn of New York's Lazards Fre@agres
investment banking house. He's the fellow who gave you the
Big MAC bankers' dictatorship in New York. He's smart, but
he represents the parasites. Each one of these fellows is
more or less capitulating to the proposals of these
parasites as expressed through the mouth of their resident
philosopher, Felix Rohatyn. They are unwilling to address
the problem.
The problem is essentially this: First of all, a long
time ago, the United States moved away from what we used
to call the American System of Political-Economy, which
was premised on the fact that the U.S. government, as we
see in Article I of our federal Constitution, and also in
{Section 8} of that Constitution, has a monopoly
over the issuance and control of its own currency.@s6 Under
the Federal Reserve Act, in particular, a scheme involving
the backers of Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, the
U.S. surrendered its sovereignty, illegally and
unconstitutionally, to a private corporation created by
the Warburg interests and chartered by the federal
government--the so-called Federal Reserve System. Under
this arrangement, a group of financial bankers,
international financial bankers, to put a fine point on
it, actually controls the currency and credit of the
United States, not the government of the people of the
United States.@s7 That is what these fellows--Bush, Clinton,
and Perot--are refusing to face. That is the first
problem.
The second problem is that since the death of
President John F. Kennedy, the U.S.A. has adopted a new
set of axioms for policymaking. The name for this set of
axioms is the rock-drug-sex counterculture. The
rock-drug-sex counterculture was invented by an avowedly
satanic cult, the cult of Aleister Crowley in Britain, and
imported from Britain into the U.S.A. That's a fact.@s8
Family values are out the window. We have new sexes, we
have new this, we have new that. A diminishing number of
children are living in families with their own parents.
The number of step-children, the number of children with
single parents is rising catastrophically in the United
States, and that's a big part of our cultural and social
problems.
At the same time that the counterculture was
introduced, about the middle of the 1960s, the U.S.
government, under the rubric of the so-called Great
Society, adopted what was known by the ideologues as a
neo-Malthusian post-industrial policy--that is, a move
toward a utopia called a post-industrial society.@s9
It's a lunatic utopia, but it's the one we're moving
toward.
The combination of neo-Malthusian and rock-drug-sex
counterculture morals and assumptions in shaping policy
have brought the U.S.A. into the decade of greed--the
decade from 1982 to 1992, the decade of the yuppie, the
decade of the person who makes a million on Wall
Street--unearned income, doing nothing--while the
industries, the farms, and the local communities collapse.
Many people are fascinated with Wall Street income, but it
is nothing more than pure speculation, unearned money,
nothing to do with production of food, nothing to do with
production of things we use from industry. This outlook
has dominated our policy, and it came as it must to an
end. The whole system has collapsed. The system which had
been praised, the system of deregulation, the system of
so-called free trade, has collapsed.
Do you want to get out of the depression? Not only
must we go back to the philosophy of government, and
philosophy of policy, we had at least in the Kennedy
administration. But even so, we're not going to recover.
There is no bottom to this depression as long as we
continue to do what, so far, Bush, Clinton, and Perot have
proposed to do: To try to save the disease at the expense
of the patient. To try to preserve these parasites behind
Felix Rohatyn, the bankers, the private bankers, the
international bankers who loot this country, to save that
system at the expense of the economy by means of what's
called austerity.
I know this austerity very well. Not only is it
specifically fascist, that is, it was invented as a policy
during the time of Mussolini and was Mussolini's Italy
policy, but we have a famous case in Germany of this in
the early 1930s, under the chancellor named Bruening.
Bruening ruined the German economy, which paved the way
for Hitler.@s1@s0 Do you want the same thing repeated today?
What we have today around the globe in foreign policy
and domestically is a growing World War III. This World War
III did not break out in the form of an exchange in
nuclear weapons. It could have, but it didn't. Instead,
the Berlin Wall came down, because the Russian economy
collapsed itself in the effort to prepare to launch war
against the United States. The economic collapse imposed
upon the Russian economy and the eastern European
economies by looting to sustain this war effort brought
about the conditions which led to the 1989-1990 collapse
of the Soviet imperial system.@s1@s1 So the war didn't come with
nuclear weapons. The war came in the Balkans, the war came
in the Middle East, the war came in Central Asia, the war
threatens in Southeast Asia. What we have is a spread of
little wars, of revolutions, of murderous riots, and so
forth, such as the Sendero Luminoso terrorists in Peru or
the similar narco-terrorists in Colombia and Brazil and so
forth.@s1@s2
War is spreading around the planet. The underlying
reason it is spreading is that the economy is collapsed.
There is nothing to hold nations together. Therefore, they
are splitting up into little micro-nations. There is no
common interest, because of the cultural and economic
policy changes which have occurred over the past 25 years.
If you vote for one of the media-approved candidates,
you're voting for your own destruction. You may not
deserve it, but if it comes and you've voted for one of
these candidates, you will have brought that misery upon
yourself. The time has come in which you must address the
problem. You must recognize that something has gone
wrong--that the policies of the post-Kennedy period,
except a few early things under Johnson in the direction
of civil rights, were generally wrong. The philosophy of
policymaking was and is wrong, and you have to take it
and throw it out the window. It's the utopian experiment that
failed. And we have to go back to the values we had no
later than the time of President John F. Kennedy.
I'm not holding up John F. Kennedy as an angel or a
saint or something of that sort. I'm simply indicating
that under his administration, we had the kind of policies
which have really kept the nation going, which would have
avoided the crisis to which we have come today. That's an
historical fact!
This is all underlined by the fact that it was about
61 years ago, prior to this week's collapse of the pound,
allowing the British pound to begin to float, plunging the
entire world into chaos, that in September 1931, the
British goverment also set the pound to float, plunging
the world into a Great Depression, and that in the year
1342, 650 years ago, there was a decision by the British
king, at that time a good decision, to repudiate London's
debts to the Bardi, Peruzzi, and other Venetian bankers,
which launched the great financial collapse of the
fourteenth century. The point is that we didn't get into
this mess accidentally. We got into it through policies
which were wrong, policies which every administration over
the past 25 years has supported, and policies which the
majority of the voting Americans have supported. The error
lies with the policies chosen by credulous voting
Americans, or a majority of those voters, who allow the
mass entertainment and news media, and not common sense,
to dictate the way they vote.
{Rochester, Minnesota
September 18, 1992
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New York: National Democratic Policy Committee, 1981.
2. ``LaRouche Warns: Volcker's Measures Wil Lead to
Disaster,'' reprinted in {A Program for America.}
Washington, D.C.: LaRouche Democratic Campaign, 1985.
3. ``Project Democracy's Program: The Fascist Corporate
State,'' in {Project Democracy: The Parallel
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the Subject of Manufactures,'' (1791) reprinted in
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in Progress: Why It Happened, and How Recovery Must
Be Organized,'' Leesburg, Virginia: LaRouche Democratic
Campaign, 1986.
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to Stabilize State and Local Tax Revenue Bases,''
published in {New Federalist,} Dec. 16, 1987.
6. Hamilton, Alexander, ``Report on a National Bank,'' (1790)
reprinted in Spannaus, Nancy and White, Christopher,
{Political Economy of the American Revolution,}
New York: University Editions, 1977.
7. Salisbury, W. Allen, {The Civil War and the
American System,'' New York: University Editions, 1978.
8. {Satanism: Crime Wave of the '90s, Executive
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{New Federalist} pamphlet, 1990.
9. LaRouche, Lyndon H., {There Are No Limits to
Growth,} New York: New Benjamin Franklin Publishing
Company, 1983.
10. LaRouche, Helga Zepp, editor, {The Hitler
Book,} New York: New Benjamin Franklin House, 1984.
11. ``Global Showdown: The Russian Imperial War Plan
for 1988,'' {Executive Intelligence Review Special
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Review, July 1985.
12. {Destroy Sendero Luminoso!} Leesburg,
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1992.
``Bush's Surrender to Dope, Inc.: U.S. Policy Is
Destroying Colombia,'' {Executive Intelligence
Review} special report. Washington, D.C.: Executive
Intelligence Review, 1991.
----
John Covici
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- Meet the Candidates -
- Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. -
$Economist and statesman Lyndon LaRouche has been a
highly controversial international public figure for
two decades, because of his opposition to
neo-Malthusian economic and population policies; his
insistent campaign for global monetary reform based on
equity for the Third World; and his role in exposing
the powerful financial interests which control
international drug-trafficking.
As of March 9, 1992, LaRouche had been held as a
political prisoner of the Bush administration for 1,133
days, serving a 15-year sentence at Rochester,
Minnesota federal prison as a result of one of the most
shocking judicial railroads in U.S. history. The United
Nations Commission on Human Rights announced on
February 7, 1992 that it is investigating the LaRouche
case as a possible violation of human rights by the
U.S. government.
LaRouche was born on September 8, 1922 in
Rochester, New Hampshire. He was educated in the
Massachusetts public school system and attended
Northeastern University from 1940-42 and from 1946-47.
Mr. LaRouche served in the China-India-Burma theater
during World War II. He has been employed as an
industrial consultant to footwear manufacturers and
other industrial concerns.
Mr. LaRouche was married on December 29, 1977 to
German political leader and author Helga Zepp-LaRouche.
Mrs. LaRouche is the founder and director of the
Schiller Institute, and the founder of the
international Club of Life. She is a published
authority on the work of 15th century churchman and
philosopher Nicolaus of Cusa, and 18th century German
poet and dramatist Friedrich Schiller, who repeatedly
treated the theme of the American Revolution.
- The LaRouche-Riemann Method -
LaRouche describes himself as an economist
specializing in physical economy, and lists as a
leading accomplishment of his adult life his
contributions to the advancement of economic science.
He is the discoverer (1952) of what is today known as
the LaRouche-Riemann method of economic analysis, the
most accurate method of economic forecasting in
existence. His work in economics is an advancement of
the American System of political-economy (of Gottfried
Leibniz, Alexander Hamilton, Friedrich List, and Matthew
and Henry Carey). The central feature of his
contribution to economic science is the successful
application of work of leading 19th century
mathematical physicist Bernhard Riemann, to solve the
problem of correlating rates of technological progress
with rates of economic growth: the LaRouche-Riemann
method. He is the author of the 1984 textbook, {So,
You Wish to Learn All About Economics?} and the
1992 trilogy {The Science of Christian
Economy}, written while in prison, among hundreds
of other book,s magazine articles, and economic policy
proposals for governments.
In 1974, LaRouche founded and became an editor of
the hard-hitting international weekly news magazine,
Executive Intelligence Review (EIR). EIR has
established a reputation among governments and business
circles in various parts of the world as one of the
more influential publications in its price-class ($396
per year), and the news organization behind EIR is
rated by some specialists as among the most outstanding
private intelligence capabilities in the publishing
field.
In 1976, LaRouche was among the founding members
of the Fusion Energy Foundation, a nonprofit scientific
foundation which lobbied for the rapid development of
nuclear energy technologies, a revitalization of the
space program, and increased American participation in
experimental work on the frontiers of science. LaRouche
was a frequent contributor to the popular
{Fusion} magazine, until that publication was
forcibly closed down by the U.S. Department of Justice
in April 1987. He was a founding editor of {New
Solidarity}, a mass-circulation weekly newspaper,
also closed by the DoJ in April 1987.
In 1977, Mr. LaRouche first publicly proposed the
U.S. crash-basis development of anti-ballistic missile
systems based on new physical principles, what later
became the Reagan administration's Strategic Defense
Initiative (SDI). In the months leading up to President
Reagan's March 23, 1983 announcement of the SDI,
LaRouche and associates collaborated with the White
House National Security Council in formulation of the
policy.
- - The LaRouche Candidates' Movement - -
LaRouche ran for the presidency in 1976, 1980,
1984, and 1988, and campaigned for Virginia's 10th
congressional district seat in 1990. In 1986--having
already announced for the White House run of 1988--he
led a slate of more than 2,000 LaRouche Democrats in
local, state and federal elections. On March 18, 1986,
LaRouche associates won Illinois Democratic primary
elections for the posts of lieutenant governor and
secretary of state. Other candidates in 1986 primaries
and elections received between 15% and 25% of the vote
in a number of states, as an average of winners and
losers.
LaRouche names as a leading enemy the
Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL) and its
collaborators within the U.S. Department of Justice and
federal executive--a combination he has nicknamed the
``Get LaRouche Task Force.'' This animus developed
following an April 1975 visit by LaRouche to the nation
of Iraq, at the invitation of Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath
Party. In consultations with Arab leaders, LaRouche
proposed a Middle East peace plan based on Arab-Israeli
cooperation for the development of the region. En route
back to the United States from this trip, LaRouche
proposed his International Development Bank program for
global monetary reform and development at a press
conference in Bonn, West Germany. Mr. LaRouche later
met with Israeli leader Abba Eban in New York, to
discuss the peace plan.
In 1978, LaRouche commissioned the book {Dope,
Inc.}, which exposed the ``citizens above
suspicion'' on the financial side of the global drug
traffic, and traced ADL ties to the international drug
cartel. A best-seller, Dope, Inc. is now in its third
edition.
LaRouche has also been associated with the
National Anti-Drug Coalition; the National Democratic
Policy Committee, a bipartisan political action
committee; the Club of Life, the leading institutional
opponent of the neo-Malthusian Club of Rome; the
Schiller Institute, an international think tank; and
the International Caucus of Labor Committees, a
philosophical association on the model of American
founding father Benjamin Franklin's ``junto''
organization.
- National Goals for America -
LaRouche has emphasized the need for a return to
classical art, music, science, and culture as an
antidote to today's prevailing moral degeneration and
cultural pessimism. He has outlined three goals for our
nation: 1) eradicating poverty across the globe; 2)
establishing a durable peace among nations; and 3)
colonization of the Moon, Mars, and the solar system
beyond. To produce the citizens of the 21st
century--who can meet these goals, as young Americans
of the 1960s met the goal of landing a man on the
Moon--LaRouche urges an immediate return to the
classical curriculum which trained the geniuses of the
Renaissance, and an end to cultural relativism and
environmentalism in our nation's schoolrooms.
During February and March of 1992, in two national
television broadcasts and a series of 11 full-page ads
in the {Washington Times}, LaRouche presented
to American voters his unique program to reverse
today's deepening economic depression, with the
creation of 6 million new jobs within the first year of
his presidency. LaRouche's approach features the
reshaping of the Federal Reserve System into a new
National Bank of the United States, to direct $300
billion dollars of low-interest credit each year into
desperately needed government-funded infrastructure
projects of water management, transportation, energy
production, health care, and education services. Jobs
created on these projects, and spinoffs in private
industry, will put 6 million Americans back to work in
1993, says LaRouche.
In conjunction with this economic recovery program
at home, LaRouche urges deepened economic collaboration
with the western Europe and the nations now emerging
from under the yoke of communism in large-scale
development programs to end the famine and disease now
engulfing the Third World. The Bretton Woods economic
system which has enslaved the developing sector and
created economic crisis in the West, and the Versailles
system upon it was based, says LaRouche, are rotten
beyond repair, and must be replaced with a just, new
world economic order.
- The Reverend James L. Bevel -
The Reverend James L. Bevel, 55, who has agreed to
run as Lyndon LaRouche's vice presidential candidate
(see article, p. 1), is a prominent name in the history
of the American civil rights movement, in the history
of the movement against the Vietnam War, and other
milestones of 20th-century American political life.
Born Oct. 19, 1936, in Itta Bena, Miss., he is an
ordained Baptist minister, having attended the American
Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tenn. from
1957 to 1961. He has pastored churches in Tennessee,
Illinois, Ohio, and New York.
In his theological studies, and later as a
minister, the Rev. Bevel came to the understanding of
Christianity as what he characterizes as the ``science
of human consciousness,'' underlying and mandating each
and every individual citizen to take responsibility for
the human community overall. It was on the basis of
that outlook that he came to non-violence, and came to
assume responsibility for the pivotal role in the civil
rights Movement of the 1960s.
At the same time, he says he came to see expressed
in the Declaration of Independence the fullest
sociological manifestation of scientific human
consciousness, the goal toward which all people must
strive.
It was those two concepts, he says, that
formed--and form--the twin bases of his thinking,
social action, and educational and economic development
theories and processes.
- Non-Violence -
As a young pastor of a congregation, the Rev.
Bevel was introduced to Leo Tolstoy's ``The Kingdom of
God is Within You'' and Mahatma Gandhi's ``My
Experiment with Truth,'' and as a result, his ministry
turned in a radically different direction as he became
involved with a non-violent study group in Nashville in
1959. In 1960, he became a leader of the sit-in
movement in Nashville; from that day forward, he says,
he was involved in consistently applying the theology
of the Sermon on the Mount to social problems and
personal needs alike.
It was under his chairmanship of the Nashville
Student Movement that the Freedom Rides were
continued--the Freedom Rides which led to the ending of
segregation in interstate transportation.
As a member of the Student Nonviolent National
Steering Committee, the Rev. Bevel assumed the
responsibility for the Mississippi Project, one of three
projects being set up in 1961-62 by the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the other two
being the Albany Project and the Selma Project. It was
his work in, and his success in, these non-violent
projects that led Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to ask
him to function as the Mississippi field organizer for
the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC),
and, later, as the director of the SCLC's Direct
Action.
It was while serving in this capacity that the
Rev. Bevel developed the Children's Marches in
Birmingham and initiated the world-famous March on
Washington in 1963.
After the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street
Baptist Church in Birmingham, he proposed, developed,
and executed the Alabama Right to Vote Movement, which
culminated in the Selma campaign and the March on
Montgomery in 1965. Those movements led, in turn, to
the passage of the 1965 federal Civil Rights Voting
Act.
Wanting to test the theory of non-violence in a
Northern context, he developed the Tenant Unions and
the Open Housing Movement in Chicago in 1965 and 1966,
which led to a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court to
outlaw racial segregation in housing. He had previously
challenged the non-violent movement to oppose the use
of violence in foreign policy. As a result, in 1966, he
became the director of the Mobilization to End the War
in Vietnam. Under his directorship, the Mobilization to
End the War in Vietnam produced the largest
demonstration in the history of the United States to
that date, at the United Nations building in New York,
on April 15, 1967.
Bevel was the director of Non-Violent Education in
the Poor People's Campaign, and was present with Martin
Luther King at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. on
April 4, 1968, when King was shot.
- Leaving the SCLC -
His insistence on a fair trial for accused Martin
Luther King assassin James Earl Ray led to his
departure from the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference.
About the same time, Bevel was also attempting to
get the SCLC to fight against the buildup of militarism
around the world, and to fight for the scientific
education of American children. Not finding support in
the SCLC leadership for his ideas for a fair trial for
Ray, or for a worldwide citizens' movement to fight the
military buildup and to fight for scientific education
for all American children, he was voted out of the
organization; thereupon, he attended Vanderbilt
University Divinity School to further his theological
studies.
Discovering that psychology and psychoanalysis
were not sufficient to address the problems of mental
disorder created by segregation and oppression, Bevel
developed the Man Non-Violent Clinic in Baltimore, Md.,
to study and rectify the psychological damage done to
both European-Americans and African-Americans by the
practice of slavery and racial segregation. It was out
of this study that Bevel developed the Human and
Community Development Institute in Nashville, Tenn.,
and the Organic Farm Project in Hiram, Ohio.
In 1984, Bevel ran for Congress in the 7th
Congressional District in Illinois, introducing the
Precinct Council as a means for character,
institutional, and economic development. Running as a
Republican, he received 33% of the vote in a
predominantly Democratic district where Republicans
normally receive 8-10% of the vote.
After the murder of a young basketball star in
Chicago, Bevel developed the SEED (Students for
Education and Economic Development) Process, to give
inner-city children a tool that is more powerful than
gang membership.
He has recently been elected as the Director of
the Bettis Academy in Trenton, S.C., where he is
developing a comprehensive educational and economic
development curriculum that will leave students
economically independent and institutionally sovereign.
----
John Covici
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- Why We Are Suffering Through a New Great Depression -
``Last year, 49 out of 50 blue-ribbon economists
were saying there would be a recovery by this year.
They were wrong, and I was wrong.''
--George Bush, Jan. 15, 1992.
{Lyndon LaRouche was the 50th economist.}
The record of the 1980s, through the
accelerating economic crisis sweeping the United
States from 1989-1992, is that Lyndon LaRouche was
the only political leader who knew what was
happening, and {what was going to happen if we
did not make a ``bootlegger's turn'' in economic
policy.}
On the campaign trail in 1988, George Bush said
``Lyndon LaRouche deserves to be in a lot of
trouble;'' LaRouche was put in prison in the week
Bush was inaugurated President. He has been in
prison for the entire three years of economic
disaster of Bush's presidency. The country has gone
from economic decline to banking collapse; unable to
meet the most elementary needs of our own people;
unable to help any of the new nations emerging from
the Soviet empire; trying to bully our ``allies''
into bailing us out.
For allowing this to happen, you are suffering
now through a worsening, and accelerating, economic
depression. For staying away from ``the extremist
LaRouche,'' for backing politicians who are economic
incompetents and fools, chattering ``deregulation''
or the latest ``free market'' phrase of the moment,
your suffering is going to get a lot worse.
LaRouche is a political prisoner. Use your
imagination and figure out a way to help get
LaRouche elected President--and out of prison--or
get ready for this depression to get much, much
worse: worse than the 1930s Great Depression; worse
than any economic collapse since the 14th century.
- LaRouche's Record -
It isn't necessary to quote to you what
LaRouche says {now} about the failure of the
British-American economic policies of the 1980s, the
failure which all the politicians and economists are
just now discovering for the 1992 campaign. Unlike
those others, we can tell you what LaRouche said
{at that time}, when he was trying to
{reverse} those policies; when the U.S.
banking system could still have been saved.
In {Spring 1980}, with the economy in
recession due to Federal Reserve Chairman Paul
Volcker's high interest rates, LaRouche's news
service, Executive Intelligence Review News Service
(EIRNS), was the {only} one to forecast that
``deregulation'' policies would produce a second,
deeper recession in 1981-82. All the other economic
think tanks were going in the opposite direction
from the actual economy, wishfully foreseeing
nothing but ``recovery,'' as the chart shows.
On {February 4, 1984}, in a half-hour
prime-time broadcast purchased from ABC-TV,
candidate LaRouche said: ``The rot and misery in our
economy is increasing, and unless we launch an
emergency economic mobilization, that rot and misery
will begin to spread much faster. This weakness in
our national economy, combined with worsening
conditions in world trade, has already become a
major strategic threat to the future of our
country.''
On {May 10, 1984}, again on prime-time
network TV, LaRouche repeated: ``As in 1931, while
the government in Washington speaks of recovery and
prosperity just around the corner, the United States
is sliding into a new, deep economic depression.
Employers, desperate for profits under worsening
depression conditions, are seeking to cut the real
wages of Americans.''
{What did the White House say?} That it
was the 19th consecutive month of economic recovery.
{What did LaRouche's Democratic opponents
say?} That the ``recovery'' needed to be more
``broad-based.'' More than that, the Anti-Defamation
League and NBC-TV put on a half-hour show claiming
LaRouche was a dangerous extremist plotting to
assassinate political and military leaders.
On {November 11, 1986}, in
{EIR} magazine, LaRouche wrote: ``the Reagan
`economic upsurge' never occurred, and under present
U.S. economic policies, the United States is sliding
into a new world depression.... A spiral of
indebtedness of government, consumers, and
businesses has been promoted, to attempt to conceal
the depressive effects of bad, `post-industrial'
economic policies, by promoting a wild spree of
buying on credit.''
{What did the White House economists
say?} That it was the 49th month of
uninterrupted recovery. {What did LaRouche's
Democratic opponents say?} Chairman Manatt of
the Democratic Party, with Mario Cuomo and Patrick
Moynihan at a press conference, vowed to keep
LaRouche candidates off primary ballots by any means
necessary.
On {May 5, 1987} in {EIR},
LaRouche wrote: ``A crash in October would not be
absolutely certain, but it would be at least a very
good guess. This forecast is based on the
observation, that even now, President Reagan is
clinging stubbornly to belief in a `Reagan economic
recovery' which never actually occurred.... As long
as the official line of the administration is to
stick to the `successful economic policies' of the
past five years, ... an October crash would be very
probable.''
{What happened?} In October, the stock
and bond markets crashed. {What did the
administration do?} Pumped huge amounts of money
from the Federal Reserve into stocks and banks, and
tried to continue the same policies.
On {October 23, 1987,} in an ``Open
Letter to Democrats on the Crash,'' LaRouche wrote:
``Once the collapse of the international financial
bubble hits into the highly leveraged layer of real
estate holdings, banks around the country will be
swept away in a tidal wave--unless federal
regulatory action intervenes to prevent this.
Contrary to the President's wishful assertions, the
economy is not sound. Agriculture, manufacturing,
and basic economic infrastructure have been
collapsing at an accelerating rate since February
1980; a growing portion of the workforce has been
shifted out of productive employment into much
lower-paid administrative, sales, and services.''
{What did the White House say?} That
despite the October 1987 crash, it was the 60th
consecutive month of recovery. {What did
LaRouche's Democratic opponents say?} Dukakis
said that his state was the model for the ongoing
economic recovery! {What happened?}
Massachusetts led the nation in the collapse of real
estate, banks, and the plunge into depression.
On {July 4, 1989,} LaRouche, in a
pamphlet written in prison, said: ``Coming
generations will remember President George Bush for
the worst crisis to have struck these United States
in more than a hundred years. Among these crises
will be the deepest financial collapse of this
century.''
- Germany and Europe -
In foreign policy too, LaRouche in the 1980s
was the only political leader who remembered who our
nation's allies were, and what we must support as a
nation--the independence of sovereign nations from
imperial tyranny. All other political leaders of
both parties redefined Germany and Japan as our
{adversaries,} and committed what LaRouche
called ``the folly of supporting Gorbachov'' rather
than the newly independent nations of the former
Soviet empire.
On {October 12, 1988,} before anything
was stirring in Eastern Europe, LaRouche held a
press conference in Berlin, and his campaign paid to
have it broadcast on American television two days
later. He said: ``The time has come for steps toward
the reunification of Germany, with the obvious
prospect that Berlin might resume its role as the
nation's capital. I base this possibility on the
reality of a terrible food crisis which has erupted
during the past several months.... The economy of
the Soviet bloc itself is a terrible and worsening
failure.... The Soviet bloc economy has reached the
critical point. In its present form, it will
continue to slide downhill from here on.
``We must rebuild our economies to the level at
which we can provide, to the nations of the Soviet
bloc, an escape from the terrible and worsening
effects of their economic suffering. If the nations
of the West adopt an emergency agricultural policy,
those nations, working together, could ensure that
we reach the level of food supply represented by 2.4
billion tons of grain annually. It would mean
scrapping the current agricultural policies of many
governments ... I shall propose that we act to
establish `Food for Peace' agreements, with the goal
that neither the people of the Soviet Union, nor the
developing nations, shall go hungry.... We of the
United States and Germany should say to the Soviet
bloc: `Let us show you what we can do for the
peoples of Eastern Europe.'|''
{What did then-Vice President Bush
say?} Visiting Moscow the previous year, Bush
said, ``We need some of those Red Army mechanics
over in Detroit, to get things in more productive
shape.'' {What happened?} October 3, 1990,
two years after LaRouche's public forecast, Germany
was reunified; Berlin became its capital and it has
since tried, without American help, to solve the
huge food crisis in Eastern Europe and the former
Soviet Union. {What did Republicans and
Democrats agree on, as that food crisis got worse
since 1988?} They agreed on the need to continue
to {reduce} food production in the United
States, Europe, and the other most productive
agricultural countries.
- And the Solution -
In Lyndon LaRouche's case, unlike that of all
the other candidates for President, we don't have to
tell you what economic recovery strategy he just
made up two months ago, after consulting the polls.
We can tell you the economic recovery strategy he
laid out {then}, when we could still have
averted this deepening misery of our people. We can
tell you what he has been saying {since
1981} had to be done, and must be done now.
On {February 4, 1984,} for example, on
the same ABC-TV broadcast quoted above, LaRouche
said: ``To solve the problem, I propose specifically
this. That we `federalize' our Federal Reserve
System according to Article 1, Sections 8 and 9 of
our Federal Constitution. We shall take away from
the Fed its power to print money as it chooses ...
we shall prevent the Fed from continuing to operate
its favorite game, that inflationary `Keynesian
multiplier.' [Then,] to supply an adequate amount of
credit to our private banks, to get the economy
going again, the Congress must authorize an initial
issue of about $500 billions of gold-reserve
currency notes.... These notes must be loaned at
discount rates between 2% and 4%, for the kinds of
loans that I shall indicate to you--manufacturing,
and capital improvements in basic economic
infrastructure. The purpose is to put 5 million or
more of our unemployed back to work fairly quickly,
and to get our farms and factories moving again.''
{What did the White House and the
Democratic Party leadership say?} They
{agreed} on the `Gramm-Rudman' strategy,
that cutting the budget deficit took priority over
stimulating the economy or anything else. {What
do they say now?} They admit that that strategy
was a failure, and a straightjacket against dealing
with the depression, as LaRouche said it would be in
1987.
{Now,} when LaRouche tells you that
George Bush's proposed ``free trade'' agreement with
Mexico (NAFTA) will be a disaster, sending millions
of remaining American workers' jobs to a
south-of-the-border Auschwitz with wages of $2.65
{per day}, do you believe him? Do you know
that the other Democratic candidates for President
all also support this NAFTA or ``free trade with
Mexico'' in one form or another?
Nothing has changed, except for the worse.
LaRouche is still the only candidate whose candidacy
{means anything} to you, as far as whether
your grandchildren will survive and have a country
to live in.
Today LaRouche has a plan for 6 million jobs
building desperately needed infrastructure--not
makeshift labor, but necessary jobs--using the form
of national banking of Alexander Hamilton,
nationalizing the Federal Reserve, to generate
low-interest credits to rebuild our economic
infrastructure.
LaRouche's three years political imprisonment
is {your problem.} Enough is enough! Help
figure out a way, to put him in the White House in
1993.
----
John Covici
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- Chapter 2 -
- Solving the Fresh Water Crisis -
Some foolish people think that the water supply
shortages now hitting many states are somehow
predetermined by nature. Nothing is further from the
truth. What is required is to start up the long-delayed
water improvement projects, and nuclear desalination
programs to reverse the ecological and biological
catastrophe now in the making.
{Won't You Please Let Your Grandchildren Have
Drink of Fresh Water?} was the title of a
mass-circulation report commissioned by Lyndon H.
LaRouche, Jr. in 1982. The document called for using
``plain common sense'' to advance nuclear desalination
technologies and the North American Water and Power
Alliance (NAWAPA). In the preface to the pamphlet,
LaRouche wrote: ``next to a general thermonuclear war,
the greatest single environmental danger to the
American people over the coming two decades is the
danger that whole regions of our nation will simply run
out of usable fresh-water supplies.''
Whenever we as a nation have failed to make the
necessary investments in water supply infrastructure,
we have suffered. If we ignore these needs today, we
will suffer again. We are already seeing the return of
water-borne illnesses, such as cholera, which were
epidemic during the decade of the 1890s. Dustbowl
conditions, like those of the 1930s, are threatened
once again.
Today, serious water supply problems are worsening
in California and other western regions; Florida and
the Southeast; the upper Missouri Basin; the coastal
regions of New Jersey, Virginia, and the Gulf. Across
the country, local water treatment facilities are
breaking down; coliform bacteria contamination is
rising. Conditions are so bad in the Rio Grande River
Basin that cholera will break out soon.
People in these locations are suffering water
supply problems because necessary water works
developments were systematically stopped over the past
25-30 years. Moreover, wherever you live, you and the
entire U.S. population are feeling the effects of
drastically inadequate per household supplies and usage
of water, in terms of declining amounts of water going
into farming, food processing, manufacturing,
transport, and power generation, nationally.
Look at the amount of water that goes for making a
car. George Bush--and his loyal opposition--talk of
selling thousands more cars? To manufacture one car,
takes an average of over 10,040 gallons of water
directly, and thousands more indirectly. If a purchase
order from Japan came in tomorrow for thousands of
cars, many auto plants couldn't fill it because the
effort would drain local water supplies. Will they
blame that on foreigners too? Or maybe, on ``nature?''
- The National Water Budget -
Most people think of rivers, lakes, aquifers, and
water wells as resources fixed by nature, to be either
conserved or consumed. On the contrary. The only
relatively fixed feature of the water cycle in North
America is the overall annual precipitation, which
amounts to an average 4,200 billion gallons a day
(bgd.) Of that, about 1,200 bgd reaches the 48
coterminous states, where man's intervention over the
past 200 years has directly affected what water
engineers call the average dependable supply of runoff.
Today this dependable supply totals about 515 bgd, and
it is not a fixed figure, but the result of man's
activities to clear channels, drain swamps, prevent
evaporation, and create storage capacity. (You can
think of the quantity of 1 billion gallons as a column
of water whose base is the size of a football field,
and whose height is over four times that of the
Washington Monument.)
As of the 1960s, the United States, with over 190
million people, was using overall about 308 bgd, which
was 60% of the average dependable supply of 515 bgd at
that time. This supply reflected the dam-building of
the interwar period--the Grand Coulee, the Hoover, and
the Colorado River development, the Tennessee Valley
Authority, and the post-war California Water Plan
(adopted in 1957) to date. Plans were made to continue
large-scale water projects to provide for the future.
To serve a population in 1990 of 250 million, it was
projected that 588 bgd were required.
Toward this objective, the U.S. Geological Survey
conducted a systematic analysis in the 1960s of the
nation's water resources in order to assay which river
basins had a water surplus or deficit; and where
man-made interventions were necessary to increase flow.
The map shows 18 of the hydrologic regions drawn up by
the U.S. Geological Survey. Most of the 48 coterminous
states receive between 20 and 40 inches of rainfall a
year; but one-third of the area has less than 20 inches
of annual precipitation--mostly in the dry western
states.
Designs were drawn up in the 1960s for a
continental water development program, called the North
American Water and Power Alliance (NAWAPA). The
idea--shown on the map, is to divert water southward
that otherwise flows unused, into the Arctic Circle.
NAWAPA would add at least 135 bgd to the lower United
States, and additional water supplies to Canada and
Mexico.
- Ecological Degradation -
But the NAWAPA project was abandoned. Regional
water projects were also stalled; and desalination R&D
was all but shut down. The results are today's water
shortages and ecological degradation--all man-made. The
hydrologic region map shows some of the worst water
problem areas.
@sb|{California}. The state has been
obtaining 40% of its annual water needs from pumping
ground water, which in 11 of 50 major aquifers, has led
to an overdraft crisis. For example, thousands of
square miles of farmland in the San Joaquin Valley have
sunk.
@sb|{Florida.} The water supplies for
Miami, Tampa, Jacksonville, and many other population
centers are threatened by the saline intrusion into
ground water sources, because of heavy pumping.
@sb|{East Coast.} Long Island, N.Y.
supplies are threatened because the underlying aquifer
has been mined to the point of sea water intrusion.
Virginia Beach, in the James River system, is in a
similar crisis.
@sb|{Texas.} Land subsidence as a result
of ground water pumping has occurred in the Houston and
Galveston areas, causing costly damage to bridges,
buildings, roads, and underground utilities.
@sb|{Rio Grande, Lower Colorado River
Basins.} This region, plus southern California, the
U.S. border zone of {maquiladoras}--slave labor
assembly plants--has become a biological breakdown zone
because of the lack of safe water. Water-borne diseases
are spreading, and cholera is expected soon.
The present-day national water budget is seen to
be even more inadequate if measured in terms of what
should be the minimum per capita, per household and per
acre water supplies in a growing economy. During the
1980s Reagan Bush ``recovery,'' water use has been
drying up along with economic activity.
Per capita, water withdrawals (removal of water
from the annual precipitation flow) for all uses
increased from about 528 gallons per person per day in
1900, to nearly 2,000 gallons per day in 1980. The
development of modern agriculture, and the application
of electrification, account for the lion's share of the
increase.
But since 1980, per capita withdrawals have, for
the first time in the past 100 years, gone into
decline! The estimated per capita use of water in 1985
was 1,673 gallons a day, down from over 2,000 gallons
daily in 1980. This reflects economic policy shifts,
not drought.
Water use is declining for American households in
each of the three major categories of use: household
functioning and related urban uses; irrigation for
agriculture; and for meeting the needs of power
production and industrial plant requirements.
- And, the Solution -
@sb|{DESALINATION.} The Atlantic and
Pacific Oceans and the Gulf of Mexico constitute
``reservoirs'' of virtually limitless capacity, given
the installation of advanced technology nuclear
desalination facilities--the modular high-temperature
gas-cooled reactor (MHTGR) design. If these plants are
sited at key points along the Pacific, Gulf, and
Atlantic coastlines, their sweetwater output can
reverse the ecological decay now taking place.
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern
California--bigger than many national water systems,
has before it a custom design by General Atomics for an
MHTGR modular installation that could produce 106
million gallons of fresh water a day, in addition to
466 MW net electric power output. This prototype is
adaptable for other locations.
@sb|{NAWAPA}. The northwestern region of
North America receives about one-quarter of all the
rain and snow hitting the continent. The NAWAPA plan
would divert 15% of this flow (now draining northward,)
into a natural wonder reservoir--the 500-mile-long (up
to 10 miles wide) Rocky Mountain Trench in British
Columbia.
The project should proceed in three phases, so
that the benefits of each stage lay the groundwork for
succeeding development. {Phase I}: Send water
eastward across the Canadian Plains provinces,
providing water for irrigation there, as well navigable
channels that would connect the Pacific Ocean to the
Great Lakes, allowing for the regulation of Great Lakes
and St. Lawrence Seaway levels for the first time.
{Phase II}: Sending water southeast across
Montana and the Dakotas, where it would recharge the
depleted Ogallala Aquifer on the High Plains, augment
the flow of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, and
link the Canadian Plains with the Mississippi by a
navigable canal. {Phase III}: Channeling water
to the dry Southwest.
@sb|{REGIONAL PROJECTS:} Lift the
arbitrary bans--imposed in the false name of
``environmentalism''-- on tapping such flows as, for
example, the runoff of the northern California rivers,
now going out to sea unused.
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John Covici
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- Chapter 3 -
- Building New Railways, Waterways, and Highways -
Three times in the past twelve years, Lyndon LaRouche
has put before the U.S. electorate proposals for
rebuilding the nation's transportation grid. Such
proposals were key features of his economic recovery
programs in the 1980 election campaign, again in 1984, and
also in 1988.
LaRouche told people that the deregulation of
trucking, airlines, and railroads which had been launched
during the presidency of Jimmy Carter in 1978, and has
continued to this day thanks to the
``magic-of-the-market-place'' free enterprise fanatics of
the Reagan and Bush administrations, was {economically
insane}, and a sure recipe for disaster.
Was he right, or not? The disaster LaRouche warned of
over more than a decade ago has already happened.
@sb|{Air Traffic:} Before deregulation, U.S.
airlines were world leaders. Where are they now? The
once-proud flag fleet, led by Pan Am, Trans World, and
Eastern is either in bankruptcy court, or about to be.
Equipment replacement and maintenance schedules have been
sacrificed to the debts incurred in the course of
post-deregulation price wars and leveraged buy-outs.
Consolidation of carriers has concentrated traffic in
fewer and fewer, but larger and larger airports. The
result? Traffic congestion in the air and on the ground
and millions of passenger-hours wasted ({Figure
1}). No new airport has been built since 1978.
@sb|{Railroads:} 1980 passage of the Staggers
``RRRR'' Act did for the post-Penn Central bankruptcy
railroad system what deregulation did to airlines. Mergers
and the so-called consolidation of the industry have cut
railroad employment in half, and track mileage by 25%. The
production of railroad rolling stock--locomotives,
passenger cars and freight cars--plummeted to below
500 for each category in 1989 ({Figure 2}).
@sb|{Highways:} To keep the nation's highway
system as it is, pot-holes, collapsing bridges and all,
would require government expenditures in the order of $100
billion per year. To maintain the present capacity of the
congested system would require a 30% increase in urban
highway miles before the end of the decade. To keep up
with population growth, $150 billion and more would have
to be allocated {each year} by government, for
highway construction and maintenance. The Surface
Transportation Act passed into law before Christmas,
provides $150 billion over the next five years. Economic
costs of congestion have already exceeded spending on the
highways in some parts of the country.
@sb|{Waterways:} There is no East Coast or
Gulf Coast port capable of handling the size of vessel--in
excess of 100,000 tons--which for the last generation has
been the standard in world shipping. Long Beach and Puget
Sound on the West Coast can handle bulk carriers up to
150,000 tons. The Louisiana Off-shore Oil Port (LOOP) can
handle large oil tankers. But the U.S.A. is no longer
producing large ships ({Figure 3}). The famed St.
Lawrence Seaway was rendered obsolete before it opened to
traffic, because of the growth in international vessel
size. Great Lakes traffic is further constrained by
refusal to invest in improvements at the Welland Canal and
locks at Sault St. Marie. Internal waterways, such
as the Monongahela and Allegheny reaches of the upper Ohio River
have been constrained by lack of investment in the
improvement of locks and dams.
Separately, each of these crises is a matter of the
nation's very existence. Taken together, they are a leading
symptom of the economic breakdown which has been caused by
the policies which have prevailed, not just since 1978,
but for the 28 years since the assassination of President
John F. Kennedy.
- What Is Required? -
The transportation network is to the economy as a
whole as the arteries and veins of the circulatory system
are to the body. It ought to be capable of moving goods
and people where they are needed, in the most timely and
effective way. By the end of the 1980s, the U.S. transport
network as a whole was moving about 5 billion tons of
goods through the economy every year. This can be assumed
to approximate the total physical goods throughput of the
economy. Truck movements accounted for over 40% of the
total, rail for about 28%, pipelines for about 17%, and the
waterways for about 12% ({Figure 4}). Approximately
half of the total freight moved was accounted for by the
combination of coal shipments and movements of crude oil
and refined petroleum products. Grain shipments, at about
13% of the total, were the next largest commodity item
shipped. About 56 tons of goods moved through the economy
for each household in the nation.
Not since the 1950s has the per-household volume of
goods shipped been so low. Back in 1967, 82 tons of
freight were shipped, by all modes of transportation, for
each of the country's households. This was the highest
level reached in the postwar period ({Figure 5}).
The transport network's capacity to deliver the goods has
collapsed since then by more than 30%, though over the
same period the number of people per household has also
collapsed by more than 20%, from 3.4 to 2.7.
To reverse this collapse would require a transport
grid with the capacity of moving between 6.5 and 7 billion
tons of goods per year, and an economic policy which would
create the employment opportunities which would permit the
needed goods to be produced.
If the total goods moved are divided by the
goods-producing operatives of the manufacturing sector,
450 tons of product enter into circulation for each person
productively employed. To produce the increase which would
restore the per-household goods throughput of the late
1960s requires the capital investment to create in the
range of from 3.5 to 4.5 million new productive jobs in
the manufacturing sector.
LaRouche's present campaign commitment to create 6
million jobs in basic economic infrastructure and
manufacturing would set a floor for the present capacity
required to move freight at about 8 billion tons per year,
or nearly 90 tons of goods moved per household, per year.
- How Do We Compare? -
How does this compare with other developed economies?
In the late 1960s, the transportation systems of both
Japan and Germany moved roughly the same volume of goods
per household per year as the United States. By the late
1980s, Germany's transport grid had grown to the point
that 114 tons, double the U.S. level, was being
transported per household. Japan was transporting 170 tons
per household, more than three times the U.S. volume
({Figure 6}). Both countries produce for export,
to pay their way in the world. A U.S. economy which was
functioning as a world-class exporter would be generating
between 10 and 15 billion tons of goods to be shipped each
year.
As the nearly 200-year history of national
infrastructure development in the United States attests,
infrastructure, like transportation, ought to be built to
last, not from year to year, but from generation to
generation. What should be on the agenda now is not simply
the matter of what volume of goods and passengers we ought
to be capable of moving through the transport grid, but
what kind of grid ought we to be designing and building
now, to be improved on over the period from 2020-2050.
This, after all, is simply considering in what shape the
country will be during the adult lifetimes of our
grandchildren and their children.
Deregulation and budget-cutting has brought us to the
point that merely fixing up the system is no more
possible. The nation's infrastructure needs a massive
overhaul, with a price tag of trillions of dollars. If
LaRouche was right, then those who opposed, or ignored
him, were wrong. Have we learned our lesson?
- And, the Solution -
The cheapest mode of transportation is by water, but
water-borne commerce is limited in speed, such that the
mode is suited to movements of those bulk goods, such as
coal and grain, which do not require speedy delivery.
For most other purposes, rail ought to be the mode of
choice. The standard for assessing relative costs is
provided by the measurement of how many tons each mode can
move how many miles in an hour. On this basis, a
two-track railroad operating three trains an hour, at only
60 miles per hour (mph), moves the same bulk of goods as
far in an hour as a fleet of 330 20-ton trucks driven at 60 mph for
an hour. Relative labor and energy costs follow from this
performance ratio. Additionally, the same two-track
railroad requires only one-twelfth the land area of the
highways used by trucks. Since the speed of trucks is
relatively bounded by the limitations of internal
combustion engines, the advantage in favor of rail
increases dramatically with increases in speed. Diesel
engines cannot function above 125 mph.
But high-speed rail systems function for passenger
traffic at speeds in the range of 200 mph. France, with its
Train a@ag Grande Vitesse and Japan with the Shinkansen, have
pioneered the development of rapid rail transit over the last
20 years. The next step, being pioneered in Germany, France,
and Japan, is employing the technology of magnetic
levitation, in which passenger and freight trains can reach
300 miles per hour travelling without friction along a
cushion of air generated between the train and the track.
European nations are now moving to construct a high-speed
rail network which will integrate their continent from east
to west and north to south.
The United States should undertake to develop such
high-speed rail systems, with the objective of rebuilding
the railroad system as the freight mover of choice. This
high-speed rail network should be interfaced with water
transport, through ocean and internal waterway ports, to
take advantage of the benefits of both modes for
rebuilding the country's industrial base. Our program to
rebuild the nation's transportation grid should begin with
the depression-ravaged areas along the Eastern Seaboard,
the area known since 1978 as the ``rust belt,'' bounded by
the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, and centered on Chicago,
and the area bounded by the Tennessee, Tombigbee, and
Mississippi Rivers.
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John Covici
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- Chapter 4 -
- Maglev: The Technology of the 21st Century -
>From downtown Boston, 450 miles to the center of the
nation's capital, Washington D.C., in 90 minutes, at
prices cheaper than Amtrak's {Metroliner}? For
the more than 1 million people who make that journey
every year by air, this may seem like a fantasy. But it
isn't. Such is the prospect which lies before us early
in the 21st century, if we implement Lyndon LaRouche's
program for invetsment in magnetic levitation (maglev)
transport systems.
Here's what such a trip would be like. Passengers
arrive at Boston's main station via a network of maglev
commuter lines, at more than 50 miles per hour, shortly
before the scheduled 7:30 a.m. departure of the morning
express service to Washington, D.C., perhaps to be
known as {The 21st Century Unlimited.} There
are no worries about traffic jams or parking spaces. On
board, passengers relax in quiet comfort, while
{The Unlimited} accelerates at nearly three
feet per second per second to a cruising speed of about
300 mph.
Following a re-engineered route from Boston to
Providence, R.I., and then along the Connecticut
coastal strip, (see map) the first, and only stop, New
York City, would be at about 8:15 a.m. From there,
{The Unlimited} would speed toward Washington,
D.C., along roughly the same path Amtrak's
{Metroliner} now follows, arriving at around
9:00 a.m., the beginning of the working day.
- A New American Railroad -
Sound far-fetched, like science fiction? Outside
the United States, maglev train systems are fast
becoming reality. Germany has such a system ready, now,
for commercial application. Japan will also, before the
end of the decade. Rapid development of maglev
technology for the U.S.A., and the construction of a
maglev transportation network, will be a cornerstone of
the LaRouche administration's transportation policy for
the United States, without waiting for any more
wasteful cost-benefit analyses from the bureaucrats.
A high-speed line through the dense population
concentrations of the Eastern Seaboard would be the
first part of the new national network. To help revive
manufacturing in the nation's heartland--the area
bounded by Lake Erie and Michigan to the north, the
Illinois River to the west, and the Ohio River system
to the south and east--LaRouche would also drive lines
westward, through Buffalo, N.Y. in the north, and
Pittsburgh in western Pennsylvania. These would connect
the industrial centers along the shores of Lake
Ontario, Lake Michigan, and Lake Erie, and central
Ohio, with the East Coast and the Chicago-northern
Indiana industrial belt.
The 900-mile journey from New York to Chicago
would be completed in three hours--city center to city
center. Intermediate stops on the southern route would
include Pittsburgh, Columbus or Dayton, Ohio, and on to
Chicago through Union City, Marion, and Peru in
Indiana. The northern route would pass from Boston
through Albany, Rochester, and Buffalo in New York,
Cleveland and Toledo in Ohio, then across the southern
Michigan peninsula, and Gary, Indiana to Chicago (map).
The next step in construction of the new American
railroad would be north-south lines to connect the
cities of the Lake Shore belt with the cities of the
Ohio Valley, and points farther south and west.
- In Germany and Japan -
High-speed maglev transportation systems are
already being built in Germany and Japan. In Germany,
the Transrapid system has received government approval
for commercial operations. Its first phase will connect
the airports of Cologne-Bonn and Duesseldorf, and later
Essen. The Transrapid soon expects approval for
mainline, intercity operations. This program is about
seven years ahead of the the maglev program in Japan,
where the MLU system is scheduled to begin transporting
passengers in the densely populated 320-mile
Tokyo-Nagoya-Osaka corridor by the end of the decade.
Germany and Japan have also developed systems such
as the M-Bahn, the 50 mph magnetically levitated urban
transit system, which functions in Berlin, and the HSST
Corporation's systems, which have provided vehicles for
exposition sites in Tsukba and Yokohama in Japan, and
Vancouver, British Columbia, in Canada. Maglev
technology is already set to meet a family of
transportation functions, from short-distance, but
relative high-speed urban commutes--Japan's HSST can
function at between 60 and 250 mph--to intercity travel
at speeds in excess of 310 mph.
The Transrapid TR-07 is capable of carrying up to
200 passengers at speeds of up to 310 mph. With a
one-minute headway between units, Germany's TR-07 can
transport between 10,000 and 20,000 people per hour.
Japan's commercial design maglev train will consist of
14 cars capable of carrying 900 passengers, and is
intended to move 75-100,000 people per day between
Tokyo and Osaka.
Maglev is set to revolutionize passenger and
freight transportation worldwide by early in the next
century, just as the steam engine revolutionized
transportation more than 150 years ago. Given the
spinoffs which will follow the development of the
transportation systems themselves, such as impetus
given to so-called ``high-temperature'' superconductor
scientific research, the effect will be even more
profound.
- Made in the U.S.A. -
And where is the United States in all this?
Precisely nowhere. It will take a President of the
stature of a Kennedy or a Roosevelt to organize the
catch-up required, without whining about ``unfair
competition.'' After all, these maglev trains are
nothing but modern versions of a technology outlined by
U.S. space pioneer Louis Goddard early in the 20th
century.
The linear electric motor, the power source for
all current maglev prototypes, was developed in the
U.S.A. under a Federal Railroad Administration program
sponsored under the High Speed Ground Transportation
Act of 1965. In 1971, contracts were awarded the Ford
Motor Company and Stanford Research Institute for
experimental development of maglev power sources.
Low-speed propulsion systems for cities were advanced
by Rohr Industries, with Boeing taking up the
development rights. In 1974, a world speed record of
255.4 mph was set by a prototype linear induction motor
vehicle at the Department of Transportation's Pueblo,
Colorado test facility.
Just one year later, in 1975, federal funding for
the program was cut, when the Ford administration and
Congress allowed the 1965 act to lapse. At least 10
years ahead of the rest of the world at the time, the
United States is now completely out of the running.
LaRouche is the President to make up for the lost time.
- Maglev Systems -
Maglev systems feature two basic types of
propulsion and guidance systems: those in which the
systems are onboard the vehicles, such as Japan's HSST
models, and those which are propelled and controlled
from the track on which the vehicles run, known as the
guideway. Both the German TR-07 and the Japanese
MLU-002 models make use of what are called passive
systems. However, the German and Japanese programs make
use of different electromagnetic principles to provide
the suspension, propulsion, and guidance of their
vehicles.
The German Transrapid is based on the attractive
power of magnetic forces, a system called
Electromagnetic Suspension ({Figure 1}). The
vehicle's underframe ``wraps around'' the guideway and
pushes the vehicle up and off its rails. The Japanese
make use of repulsive forces, a system called
Electrodynamic Suspension ({Figure 2}), to lift
the vehicle away from the guideway. These systems must
employ an undercarriage-like landing-gear, for lift-off
and landing, because the vehicles only levitate at
speeds in excess of 25 mph.
The system's potential is completely obscured by
the cost-benefit analysis idiocies tolerated in the
United States--which have been used to destroy our
nation's infrastructure and speed our transformation
into a malthusian, post-industrial society. Comparable
in effective travel time over distances from 200 to 900
miles with aircraft, a maglev unit can carry twice the
passengers at half the cost of a plane such as today's
Boeing 737. The system is cheaper than the movement of
passengers on today's railroad system. Best estimates
of maglev operating and maintenance costs per
passenger-mile are 5.2@ct in 1988 dollars. This is
vastly less than the passenger-mile cost of today's
{Metroliner}, figured at between 16.2@ct and
36@ct, depending on book-keeping methods used.
Maglev systems would actually pay for
themselves--in wasted passenger-hours saved. Estimates
are that $40 billion of economic value is lost to
traffic delays in the nation's eight most congested
urban centers--a sum which could finance the
construction of 3,000 miles of maglev rail networks
every year. The industries and jobs which will be
created to build such a national system will return far
more, in increased productivity, and permanent
improvements to the nation's depleted capital stock, as
will the network itself, than the construction will
ever cost.
As President, Lyndon LaRouche will use such
industries as the leading edge of an export drive, in
which the United States will begin shipping
state-of-the-art capital goods to help the nations of
the Southern Hemisphere develop the economic
infrastructure they need to prosper in the 21st
century. The jobs and industries LaRouche creates,
under his New American Railroad maglev program, will be
here to stay.
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John Covici
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Nuclear Fission: Bridge to Fusion Power
The next President of the United States will be
confronted with the greatest energy crisis yet seen.
This time, it will not be the result of a shutoff in
oil supplies, nor supposed threats to the supply of
this so-called strategic commodity which helped
motivate last year's genocide against Iraq. This time,
it will be the result of the insanity of the national
energy policy which we have tolerated since the early
1970s. The crisis is scheduled to erupt as a breakdown
of what used to be the world's most productive and
cheapest electricity generating system. For that we
have only ourselves to blame.
The energy crisis could erupt as early as the
first half of the next President's term in office.
Lyndon LaRouche is the only candidate with the
qualifications to deal with it. If voters had not
ignored the energy policy platform he put before the
country in 1980, and again in 1984, we would not now be
facing the crisis which is looming ahead. Even as late
as 1988, LaRouche's policy, if it had been adopted,
could have helped avert what is now becoming all but
inevitable.
- Three Aspects of the Crisis -
There are three aspects of the new energy crisis:
{1. National Science Policy.} The question
here is whether the nation is prepared to rebuild its
dismantled scientific and engineering capacity to the
end of realizing the potentials of controlled
thermonuclear fusion power. Using sea water as its
resource for the fusion of hydrogen and deuterium,
fusion power will bring the energy source of the stars
down to Earth, for a cheap, virtually inexhaustible
energy source.
{2. The Role of Nuclear Fission}. Can
Americans muster sufficient rationality to accept the
scientific fact that nuclear energy is our only means
to reverse the depression collapse at home and end the
genocide against the Third World? Without a commitment
to rebuilding the nuclear industry as rapidly as
possible, there will be no future, either for the
United States, or for the rest of the world.
What is needed is the establishment of an industry
for the mass production of modular nuclear plants, such
as the Modular High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactor
(MHTGR) proposed by General Atomics (diagram).
Development of our nuclear fission capabilities will
provide the bridge to the energy source of the 21st
century: nuclear fusion.
{3. Time to Dump Environmentalism}. Will
Americans wake up and realize that the
``environmentalism'' and ``magic of the marketplace''
obsessions of the last years are shameless frauds?
These are the cover stories for the deliberate
deindustrialization of America. In the case of our
energy industry, environmentalism has brought us to the
point at which America's lights are about to go out.
- Blackout -
The energy crisis has been made inevitable by the
refusal to invest in new generating capacity to meet
increasing demand for electricity. It will be
exacerbated as the provisions of the Clean Air Act,
especially as they apply to coal-burning utilities, go
into effect.
Since the mid-1980s, government and utilities have
insisted that demand for electricity has slowed to the
point that capacity planned to come on line by the end
of the decade will suffice. It won't. Their projected
increase in demand, at less than 2% per annum, has been
consistently wrong. Growth reported by the Energy
Information Administration has consistently been nearly
twice what utilities and government have forecast. The
capacity to meet the added demand does not, and will
not, exist.
By the end of the 1980s, the National Electric
Reliability Council (NERC) had estimated that, with
approximately 2% annual growth in demand for
electricity, 200-300 gigawatts of generating capacity
(a gigawatt is approximately enough energy to supply a
city of 1 million people) would have to be added to the
inventory of generating equipment. By the early 1990s,
about 86 gigawatts could be accounted for as planned,
of which 28.7 gigawatts were under construction. These
estimates were intended to assure that there would be
no shortages by the end of the decade. With a 10-year
lead time to complete construction of even a coal-fired
plant, anything not yet under construction will not be
part of the generating grid 10 years from now, unless
policies are changed.
A shortfall in energy supplies will lead to
voltage reductions and power interruptions--Third World
style. Brownouts and blackouts will happen during
extremes of weather--winter cold and summer heat--which
define the peak demand for electricity. Increasingly,
they will become an ever-present fact of life.
The 1991 amendments to the 1972 Clean Air Act,
which will knock out more than 12 gigawatts of
capacity, will make things worse.
The Bush administration proposed in its 1991
National Energy Plan legislation that the reduction of
the growth of energy consumption would provide a
solution to the supply crisis. William Reilly, head of
the Environmental Protection Adminstration, espoused
his ``green lights campaign,'' to have corporate
consumers of electricity commit to ``energy efficient''
forms of lighting to help reduce demand. The Bush crowd
has also proposed to ``deregulate'' the electric
utilities, opening up electricity generation to
manufacturers of generating equipment, windmill owners,
dung-burners and who knows what else, all in the name
of ``increasing competitiveness.''
These are proposals which will kill people--the
old and the sick, the poor and the defenseless--as such
policies have been killing, inside and outside the
United States, for more than a generation. But that is
what they are designed to do.
- Shutting Down the Nuclear Industry -
Since the February 1978 sabotage of Pennsylvania's
Three Mile Island nuclear plant, the pretext which
permitted the green Jimmy Carter to begin the shutdown
of the nation's nuclear industry, enough nuclear-based
electric generating capacity been cancelled to have
averted the crisis now before us. This includes nearly
100 power plants ordered before 1978. (No new nuclear
plant has been ordered since 1978.) But it also
includes the cancellation of 80 coal-fired plants,
destined for operation as ``base-load'' generating
units, that is, units which would have been producing
power 24 hours a day. This has been done in the name of
protecting the environment. It has been enforced by the
financial dictatorship imposed on utilities, since
former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker's high
interest rate policy of 1979 plunged U.S. manufacturing
industries, especially capital-goods producing
industries, into a depression from which they have
never recovered.
The eruption of a crisis in the nation's power
supply has been temporarily delayed by the depression.
Back in the 1960s, manufacturing industries used to
account for about half of the nation's electricity
consumption. In the intervening period, manufacturing's
share of electricity consumption has fallen to around
30% of the total. If we still produced the shoes and
the socks and the shirts and pants, as well as the
steel and machinery we need to survive, energy
shortages would have become apparent many years ago.
Until the Carter administration, the growth of
U.S. electrification, doubling every ten years, was
unique in the world. The 1970s broke the pattern, as
growth fell from over 7% per year in the 1960s to
around 3% per year, and since then has collapsed by
half again. The growth of electrification was crucial
to the production of what used to be America's high
standard of living. Since the East Coast blackouts of
1965, when the National Electric Reliability Council
(NERC) was formed, America's regulated electric
utilities were mandated to ensure, as first priority,
reliability of electricity supplies. Now, America's
high living standards have disappeared. The reliability
of electricity supply is about to disappear, too.
The conceit, propagated by Harvard, popularized by
Carter and company, and enforced by the
environmentalists and the Wall Street banks, was that
the link had been broken between growth in energy
supplies, and the growth of the economy as a whole. The
same babble comes from the free-marketeers, who now
boast idiotically of how much they will reduce the
energy content required to increase the GNP by the end
of the century.
Human history proves that this is nonsense.
Current events prove that it is genocidal. Advances in
the human condition {require} advances in the
quality and amount of energy available to power the
machinery on which man's continued existence depends.
Conservation was tried before, by the Roman Emperor
Diocletian, who banned labor-saving devices from his
empire. With the fall of the Roman Empire, the
population of the Mediterranean Basin collapsed by 40%,
just as the populations of the developing sector are
today being murdered by lack of technology. Today, the
environmentalist Clean Air Act bans additions to
power-generating and manufacturing capacity by
``capping'' so-called emissions. Under the act, new
capacity can only be added if old capacity is withdrawn
from service.
This is the prescription for energy crisis now,
and economic disaster a short way down the road. Since
the availability of raw materials is defined by the
science and technology employed to produce raw
materials, any attempt to halt technology ensures that
the economic cost of those raw materials increases as
the resource is depleted. And thus, what is now called
``conservation'' does the reverse of what it claims to
do. A society which seeks to emulate Diocletian's Rome
will destroy the very basis for its own existence, as
the Roman Empire did.
LaRouche's alternative would provide the power
needed to put the country back to work producing what
it needs for itself, and as its contribution to the
well-being of the rest of the world.
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John Covici
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- Chapter 6 -
- The Best Health Care for Every American -
nAmerican citizens are rightly up in arms about the
crisis in the U.S. health care system. Prices for
everything from medication to physician services are
soaring beyond the means of an increasingly
impoverished citizenry, while the cost of health
insurance is going sky high, forcing employers and
employees alike to drop coverage in order to stay
financially solvent. At the same time, health insurers,
led by Medicare and Medicaid, are covering fewer and
fewer categories of treatment, while paying medical
providers lower proportions of their costs and
demanding ever-higher premium payments. They are
forcing sick patients out of hospitals and financially
strapped hospitals out of business. The ones that
remain have had to limit or deny treatment for those
without insurance.
But the crisis in U.S. health care is not just one
of affordability. The fact is that our health care
system is in a {breakdown crisis,} caused by
the accelerating collapse of the entire U.S. economy
from nearly 30 years of incompetent economic policies
and financial swindles.
This breakdown is embodied by the now-evident
reality of the 1980s Reagan-Bush ``recovery'': the
surge in diseases like syphilis and hepatitis, the
epidemic emergence of new diseases--most notably
AIDS--and the re-emergence of long-dormant strains like
measles and turberculosis ({Figure 1}). The
failure to maintain basic public health screening and
treatment practices--especially in regard to AIDS--and
to provide elementary preventive medical services like
vaccinations, has put the United States on the verge of
a biological holocaust.
Furthermore, there is a dire shortage of hospitals
and hospital beds, by even normal standards. Up until
the ascendancy of Ronald Reagan and his bogus
free-market economics in 1980, the U.S.A. had steadily
increased the number of general hospital beds, to
attain 97% of the postwar standard of 4.5 beds per
1,000 population ({Figure 2}). By 1990, the
nation had only 83% of the beds needed; 761 hospitals
had been shut down.
While there is no doubt that improved medical
technologies have reduced hospital stays, the main
driver has been cost-cutting. In West Germany, which
arguably has the best overall health care in the world
today, there are more than 7.4 beds per 1,000 people,
which is nearly {double} that of the United
States.
Far worse is the inability to care for the growing
number of our aging citizens and for those who are
mentally disabled. Since 1950, the number of beds for
chronic long-term care patients has dropped by 65% to a
mere 25,000--barely 5% of the 500,000 needed.
Similarly, the number of beds in mental institutions
has dropped by 78% since 1960, to just 160,000 out of
the 1.25 million needed in 1990.
On top of this is the murderous closing of 65
trauma units, which have reduced the trauma death rate
by 64%. Lack of funds endangers the remaining 370
centers. In our largest cities, overwhelmed hospital
emergency rooms treated more than {twice} as
many patients in 1990 as in 1980. Each day, they are
besieged with AIDS victims, the homeless, the
chronically mentally ill, and drug-induced or
violence-related emergencies, as well as sick,
uninsured patients who lack access to primary care.
In California, where 56 hospitals have closed in
the last decade, more than a dozen other hospitals have
shut their emergency rooms permanently. Ambulances
carry patients to four or more hospitals before finding
an available bed. Los Angeles emergency room doctors
acknowledge that their patients have died on gurneys in
the halls while waiting for beds.
In 1989, while emergency room patients lined the
walls of New York City hospitals waiting for beds, over
1600 beds were certified and available but closed due
to lack of nurses. In a New York State Health
Department survey of city hospitals at midnight on Jan.
10, 1989, 599 emergency room patients admitted were
found waiting for a bed. One year later, on Jan. 10,
1990 at midnight, another state audit found 960
admitted patients waiting for beds.
- Prescription for Death -
Every candidate but LaRouche has ignored this
breakdown. Almost nowhere can one find even a mention
of the necessity for the enormous {expansion}
of our collapsing health care system. Instead, the
focus of the health crisis debate is on the form and
cost of insurance coverage that should be provided, the
means of reducing treatment in order to control costs,
and the measures for increasing ``cost efficiency'' of
the ``delivery system.'' {Every single one of these
so-called solutions--including the push for
``universal'' or ``national health care,'' ``managed
care,'' and so-called ``pay-or-play'' options for
employers--would only further wreck health care in the
United States.} They would actually
{worsen} the financial straits of hospitals and
medical providers, and precipitously lower the quality
and availability of medical treatment for the
population.
That in fact is the {intention} of George
Bush and the Bush Democrats.
It is the inevitable result of 30 years of pushing
the United States, and the world, into the New World
Order of ``post-industrial society,'' in which we have
failed to invest in the basic infrastructure and
industry that could have produced enough goods and
services to maintain an expanding population at
ever-higher standards of living. It is the result of
two decades of financial speculation in real estate,
commodities, and corporate mergers that have saddled
our industry and citizens with $25 trillion of
inflationary, unpayable debt, rendered our government
and banking system bankrupt, and turned us into a
debtor nation. Such a policy now deems much of this
population as ``expendable,'' especially the
depression's swelling ranks of unemployed who are
elderly, sick, or infirm--the targets for the growing
Right to Die euthanasia movement.
It wasn't always that way.
- Commitment to Life -
On the eve of America's victory over the Nazis,
Sen. Lister Hill of Alabama submitted legislation to
Congress that expressed the essence of the nation's
renewed commitment to the fundamental preservation and
enhancement of life. The Hill-Burton Hospital
Construction Act of 1946 embarked the United States on
a decade of unprecedented expansion of the nation's
hospital and public health system. Along with other
programs, such as upgrading nursing services and
locating veterans' hospitals near medical schools so
that medical students could both staff and train at
them, the U.S. health system became an integral feature
of the postwar economic expansion and a scientific
optimism that would soon enable man to soar into space.
The rising standard of living and solid gains in
productivity brought medical care within the budgets of
more and more Americans. In 1952, for the growing
number of people who purchased health insurance, the
combined premiums for Blue Cross/Blue Shield hospital,
surgical, and physician coverage was just $6.65 a
month, or $80 a year--just over one week's wages. Back
then, the average hospital stay cost just two weeks'
wages for such a production worker; now it costs
{12 weeks} pay, with much worse care
({Figure 3}).
The free-market insanity of the Reagan-Bush
administration has increasingly forced hospitals into
the arms of Wall Street financial wizards, who
increasingly moved in to run hospitals as a business
rather than as a dedicated professional service.
Far from augmenting ``efficiency,'' the
cost-control measures imposed by these bloodsuckers
have sent administrative costs soaring. The nitpicking
over each and every medical charge, the establishment
of legions of accountants and forms and financial
regulations, have resulted in an 8% annual increase in
administrative costs for both doctors and hospitals,
{above} the inflation rate! This is
{double} the average annual increase in overall
medical costs.
{Administrative costs now conservatively
comprise 25% of medical costs.} When combined with
the growing army of poor seeking medical care and
government cuts in Medicare and Medicaid payments,
hospitals and physicians have shifted more and more of
the costs onto the shrinking base of those with
insurance--to the point where the average hospital bill
now costs the equivalent of more than 11 weeks of a
manufacturing worker's wages.
- The LaRouche Program -
1. The prerequisite for restoring our health care
system is to commit the nation to LaRouche's program
for building our way out of the depression: the
creation of 6 million new productive jobs as the result
of federalizing the Federal Reserve, and pouring
low-interest credit into necessary public works. At the
top of the list will be the revitalization of the combined
public and private county hospital system, which once
adequately served the needs of our citizens, financed
from public funds garnered from an expanding tax base
of employed Americans.
2. We must build more hospitals and add hundreds of
thousands of beds, as part of this drive to revitalize
America's economic infrastructure. We must greatly expand the
number of intensive care beds, re-open closed emergency wards
and trauma centers, and build new ones. A new Hill-Burton
Commission shall be established to upgrade our health care
system, to oversee the construction of new hospitals and
medical centers and equipping them with the most advanced
technology.
3. We must launch an Apollo-style, crash research
program to fight degenerative diseases and epidemics
with the best technology available, especially
employing the frontier technology of optical biophysics
to find a cure for the species-threatening AIDS virus
and other infections now careening out of control.
4. Fourth, the federal government shall regulate
health insurance companies to ensure full payment of
medical costs and complete medical coverage for policy
holders, with premium prices based on an average cost
for entire communities, not on an individual's ``risk
factors.'' The federal government will also provide a
safety net for those without insurance, through both
Medicare and Medicaid and a new catastrophic health
insurance plan.
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John Covici
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- Chapter 7 -
- Restore Literacy and Classical Education -
As we enter the 1992 presidential primaries, the
problems in America's schools have become so evident
that all those in the running, even self-named
``Education President'' George Bush, have been forced
to concede the magnitude of the crisis. But only one
candidate--Lyndon LaRouche--has identified the economic
and cultural factors that have ruined our schools, and
outlined the program required to restore them. LaRouche
has presented the case that the increasing illiteracy
of our population is due to the post-industrial
economic policies imposed on the United States over the
past 25 years, and the promotion of the rock-drug-sex
counterculture among our youth by the very same
neo-Malthusian policymakers responsible for the
post-industrial debacle.
- How Our Schools Were Ruined -
In an open letter to the United Federation of
Teachers in July of 1985, LaRouche described how the
bankers' budget-cutting and union-busting policies have
destroyed our schools, beginning in New York City:
``The collapse in ... public education dates from
developments in New York City during the 1968-1975
period of the Ford Foundation's provocation of the 1968
New York Teachers' strike, through the establishment of
`Big Mac' during the 1975 municipal debt crisis.
Although parallel developments in educational policy
were pervasive throughout the nation, it was the
breaking of the back of the high standards once set by
the New York City Board of Education, which set the
precedent for erosion of education in the nation at
large.''
No longer can talented students with limited
financial resources count on the public schools for
education, LaRouche wrote. ``The ghetto-neighborhoods
in which pupils might presumably conduct their
homework, were turned into something resembling
bombed-out cities in postwar Germany.... The reaching
of what had been once considered civil-rights goals in
educational opportunity, intersected an accelerating
plunge into `post-industrial society'; the employment
orientations, early associated with first-class public
education, were made increasingly meaningless in
practice, especially so in the traditionally
industrialized urban centers....
``During the past 20 years, the average quality of
teachers in public schools has fallen catastrophically.
The quality of instruction given has, on the average,
fallen way below the potentials of the average of
current teachers,'' LaRouche added. ``In large degree,
this reflects the worsening of the pervasiveness of
drug-usage and drug-culture-related conditions in the
schools and in the classrooms. In the largest part,
this deterioration has been the intent of powerful
lobbies which have shaped national educational
policy.''
How far has America's public education system
collapsed? Consider the so-called political correctness
movement which has spread through America's schools and
college campuses. Scientific rigor and competence have
been thrown out the window--in favor of the political
fads of the post-industrial society. It is no longer
necessary for the teachers, let alone the students, to
be familiar with Shakespeare and Poe; history textbooks
are being rewritten to castigate such ``western
imperialists'' as Christopher Columbus and the Founding
Fathers. Even worse is what is being inserted
{into} the schoolbooks. Courses on alternative
life styles--lesbianism, witchcraft, etc.--have become
standard fare. Institutions which adhere to a God-given
standard of morality in human behavior, such as the
churches and the family, are branded as authoritarian.
- Preconditions for Recovery -
There are two preconditions for rebuilding
America's public education system. The first is {a
winning war on drugs}. As President, LaRouche will
launch such a war. Instead of targeting only the
lowest-level street dealers, he will work with Congress
to enact new banking transparency laws, which enable
law enforcement to identify and confiscate the hundreds
of billions of dollars of illicit profits laundered
through the banks, and to jail the bankers responsible.
Along with this campaign to strangle the dope traffic
by cutting off its funds, LaRouche will institute a new
foreign policy regarding the foreign producers of the
drugs that are destroying our children: The United
States will reject the International Monetary Fund
austerity ``conditionalities'' which force developing
sector nations to grow dope as a cash crop, and replace
this genocidal policy with programs to develop modern,
capital-intensive agriculture in these countries.
The second precondition is an {emergency
program for national economic recovery.} In
testimony to the House Ways and Means Committee on
February 5, 1992, LaRouche explained his program to
create 6 million jobs during his first adminstration.
These new jobs, 3 million in the public sector building
needed economic infrastructure, and 3 million in the
private sector supporting these enterprises, will
greatly expand the nation's tax base, and generate
needed resources at the local, state, and federal level
for returning to excellence in education. This means
that our cities and counties will once again have the
funds to hire the best teachers, bring class sizes down
to no more than 16 to 20 students, equip new science
laboratories, purchase new textbooks, and more. In
these improved circumstances, teachers will once again
be provided with the means to teach: proper training,
adequate preparation time (between 1 and 2 hours for
each hour of classroom teaching), and the means to
follow and evaluate the progress of individual
students. Computer-scored ``multiple choice'' learning
and testing--which almost always means that little or
no real teaching is going on--will be ended.
Just as the Apollo Moon project gave the last
boost to education, a series of Great Projects
initiated and funded by the federal government will
have a profound positive effect on our schools. As we
undertake the tasks of curing AIDS, colonizing the
Moon, and engineering fusion power, our national
laboratories and other government projects will become
training centers for upgrading science at every level
in the schools.
- A Classical Curriculum -
While it is largely up to state and local
government to finance and operate our schools, the
federal government must play a leading role, by setting
national goals, delineating the role of the public
schools in meeting these goals, and establishing a
standard for excellence in performance by the education
system.
LaRouche has outlined three goals for our nation:
1) eradicating poverty across the globe; 2)
establishing a durable peace among nations; and 3)
colonization of the Moon, Mars, and the Solar System
beyond. To produce the citizens of the 21st
century--who can meet these goals, as young Americans
of the 1960s met the goal of landing a man on the
Moon--our schools must return to what LaRouche calls
the classical curriculum. This curriculum, which
trained the geniuses of Renaissance Europe and the
outstanding leaders among our Founding Fathers,
contains the following elements:
1) Classical language, literature, poetry, and
history, in English and foreign languages as well. This
would include Shakespeare, as well as English
translations of portions of Cervantes, Lessing, and
Schiller, and others, and an appreciation of our
Judeo-Christian Western European culture, as
transmitted through the Indo-European family of
literate forms of spoken and written language. LaRouche
emphasizes the importance of history for students: ``We
learn from past history how the conditions of nations
and our civilization as a whole were bettered or
worsened by the shaping of policies in one way or the
other,'' he wrote in 1981. From history, ``we learn ...
a sense of our individual selves as more or less
influential individual persons in a long historical
process.''
2) Plastic arts, in tradition of Leonardo,
Du@aurer, Raphael, and Rembrandt, to name a few of the
great Renaissance artists. Most education ``experts''
today either dismiss the arts as impractical and
irrelevant, or else make the category a dumping ground
for what would, by any sane criteria, be considered
garbage. LaRouche, however, has a very defined sense of
how art and science unify in a classical unified
curriculum. ``Classical art is essential,'' he has
written. ``Simple drawing, introducing Albertian
perspective at an early age, should lay the basis for
the plastic arts ... At a later age, the advances in
perspective contributed by Leonardo da Vinci should be
introduced.'' LaRouche outlines a complete curriculum
to teach children not only about architecture,
sculpture, and drawing, but beauty and harmonics as
well.
3) Physical science in tradition of the University
of Go@auttingen. Taking the German university of
Go@auttingen as his model, LaRouche has outlined a
detailed program of study from basic geometry (the
tenth through thirteenth books of Euclid) to advanced
physics (Reimann, Cantor, and Gauss.) Even more
important than the specific areas of study is the
method that he has stressed. ``By living through the
experience of those past discoveries ... the student
learns to recognize, much better than he or she could
otherwise, what kinds of activity within his or her own
mental experience corresponds with the power to
generate and assimilate new knowledge of the way in
which the physical universe is organized.''
4) Classical music. Similar to art, music in most
school systems has been relegated to either the
superfluous or the ridiculous. In the classical
curriculum, however, music is a fundamental element.
``Music should be presented as classical poetry sung
according to principles of well-tempered polyphony,''
LaRouche writes. ``The basis for this is best
established on the primary school level, by development
of children's choruses based upon a) the bel canto
method of singing and b) strict adherence to a
well-tempered scale set at middle C=256.'' Performance
on orchestral instruments and work in classical musical
composition, should continue throughout secondary
schooling.
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John Covici
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- Chapter 8 -
- LaRouche's Program for 6 Million New Jobs -
By now, it is almost accepted wisdom that the United
States economy has been in a sharp decline since 1973.
Wages and living standards have gone down, debt in both
the public and private sectors has skyrocketed, and the
productive sector of the economy has shrunk to a
pitiful shadow of our country's former greatness.
Lyndon LaRouche is the only presidential candidate who
forecast that this would happen, if the policy of usury
and post-industrialism adopted in the 1960s were not
changed.
LaRouche's approach has been consistent. While
others have demanded austerity and budget cuts, he has
insisted that the economy will be put back on track
only if 1) the fiat money policies of the Federal
Reserve are replaced by those of sound national banking
with gold-reserve backing at low interest rates; and 2)
credit is applied to creating millions of jobs in the
productive sector of the economy, including industry,
agriculture, transportation, and other infrastructure.
The fundamental problem with the economy is that
it has subordinated people's welfare, to the demands of
the bankers. As a result, real production has been
replaced by the post-industrial service economy. The
source of the problem, LaRouche has insisted over and
over again, is that the portion of the work force
employed in productive jobs has declined from 50% in
1940 to less than 20% today.
- A Third National Bank -
In 1976, when he first ran for President, LaRouche
proposed the Emergency Employment Act, which called for
the Congress to declare an economic emergency, put the
government through bankruptcy reorganization, and put
the country back to work rebuilding itself and the
world. He combined this program with the demand to
replace the Federal Reserve with a Third National Bank
of the United States, which would invest preferentially
in infrastructure and high-technology development.
Many Americans are programmed to respond
negatively to the idea of a national bank. But
Alexander Hamilton, our first Treasury Secretary and
founder of the American System of economics, conceived
of it as a way to ensure that we became an independent
nation, with credit available for necessary
manufacturing and infrastructure. Together with a
policy of selective tariffs and taxation which promotes
investment and penalizes speculation, such a national
bank is an essential protection for private industry
and agriculture.
By contrast, Gerry Ford called for continuing the
austerity program of the Nixon administration. The
Democrats, led by Jimmy Carter, were even more
aggressive in demanding ``conservation'' and energy
cutbacks, which led to both a domestic and
international economic disaster. This led to the
Federal Reserve Bank taking drastic measures in the
fall of 1979, by hiking interest rates up over 20%.
On October 16, 1979 Democratic presidential
candidate LaRouche said: ``I herewith submit a demand
for the prompt impeachment of recently appointed
Federal Reserve Chairman Paul A. Volcker.... As one of
the world's leading economists, I have caused my staff
to conduct a computer-based analysis of the near-term
consequences of Volcker's measures. Those results,
coinciding with the estimates of other analysts
reporting independently, indicate that the measures
already enacted by Volcker will cause a 15% recession
in the U.S. economy, probably putting the United States
into a recession twice as severe as that of 1974.
``There are two immediate measures which would
ameliorate the present crisis. First, U.S. gold
reserves must be valued at an adjusted current world
market value, a value to be negotiated with both the
European Monetary System member-nations and the OPEC
`petrodollars' holders. This would stabilize the value
of the dollar and take the worst pressures off dollar
liquidity. Second, the Federal Reserve must immediately
implement the kind of selective credit-flow controls
which Senator Sarbanes proposed.''
The Volcker measures went ahead and the projected
plunge in production did occur. The collapse in
production which LaRouche projected occurred. To
compensate, the Reagan-Bush administration launched the
most massive binge of speculation and ``creative''
financing ever seen, through a process of deregulation,
leveraged buyouts, debt rollovers, and real estate
``development.'' And all of this with money borrowed at
Volcker's usurious interest rates.
- The Debt Bubble -
That is one reason why the federal expenditures
for interest on the debt have gone sky high
({Figure 1}), and we have no economic growth to
show for it. That's one of the basic reasons for the
explosion in debt in all areas of the U.S. economy--to
over $21 trillion today ({Figure 2 }and{
Figure 3}).
LaRouche addressed the problem again in his 1984
presidential campaign. On February 4, 1984, in an
ABC-TV broadcast, LaRouche said: ``I propose
specifically this. That we `federalize' our Federal
Reserve System according to Article 1, Sections 8 and 9
of our federal Constitution. We shall take away from
the Fed its power to print money as it chooses ... we
shall prevent the Fed from continuing to operate its
favorite game, that inflationary `Keynesian
multiplier.' [Then,] to supply an adequate amount of
credit to our private banks, to get the economy going
again, the Congress must authorize an initial issue of
about $500 billions of gold-reserve currency notes....
These notes must be loaned at discount rates between 2%
and 4%, for the kinds of loans that I shall indicate to
you--manufacturing, and capital improvements in basic
economic infrastructure. The purpose is to put 5
million or more of our unemployed back to work fairly
quickly, and to get our farms and factories moving
again.''
{What did the White House and the Democratic
Party leadership say?} They {agreed} on the
``Gramm-Rudman'' strategy, that cutting the budget
deficit took priority over stimulating the economy or
anything else. {What do they say now?} After
three years of deep cuts and soaring budget deficits
({Figure 4)}, they admit that their strategy
was a failure, and a straitjacket against dealing with
the depression, as LaRouche said it would be in 1987.
As a result of the Federal Reserve's policy of
fostering banking deregulation and speculation, we saw
the collapse of the savings and loan industry, some of
the largest commercial bank failures in modern history,
and a scandalous series of leveraged buyouts followed
by forced bankruptcies, after the companies could not
pay for the debt they incurred.
In his 1988 campaign, LaRouche addressed the
question of the Federal Reserve again. As he wrote in
{A Program for America} when he launched his
campaign:
``There are two fundamental shifts which must be
made in order to bring the United States into an actual
economic recovery, in contrast to the deepening
depression which administration public-relations men
call `the recovery' today. First and foremost, the U.S.
government must take back its sovereign authority over
the creation of credit. This means either the
elimination of the Federal Reserve Bank, or a drastic
reform of that institution, which puts the authority
for control of credit and the currency back in the
hands of Congress, where it constitutionally belongs.''
Every other national candidate has avoided this
issue, arguing that the federal budget must be cut, or
that lending should be extended through the current
banking system, especially at consumer credit rates of
16 to 22%. This will simply make the crisis worse,
because credit will not be directed into the vital
wealth-producing areas of the economy.
After the debt crisis had strangled corporations
and governmental bodies to near-death, President Bush
began to demand that the Federal Reserve lower interest
rates. But, by then it was too late for such
lowerings--which have brought rates down to dramatic
lows--to have any appreciable effect in bringing the
economy out of depression.
- Six Million Back to Work -
In December 1991, candidate LaRouche reiterated
what has to be done to reverse the depression:
``My recovery program depends on the initial
action of federalizing, nationalizing, the Federal
Reserve System. That is, to take away its status as a
quasi-independent corporation controlled by bankers,
and to make it an institution of the U.S. government,
the kind of bank that the United States Bank
represented under President George Washington.
``This bank would be a means, not for emitting
currency, but for putting federal currency, legal
tender, out as loans at very low interest rates to get
the economy moving.
``We are talking about loans on the order of
magnitude of over $300 billion a year for public works,
and a comparable amount of lending into the private
sector for investment primarily in employment in
high-tech and engineering types of activity.
``We are talking about 3 million people in the
public sector, working for federal, state, and local
infrastructure projects, such as railway projects,
water system projects, power system projects....
``We are talking about, on the other side, another
3 million people at least, employed as a result of
vendor agreements, which are made with spinoffs of
these public projects.
``So we are talking about an increase in
employment of about 6 million people within a year.''
The interest rates on such loans would be between
2% and 4%. How would the money be paid back? Through
increased tax revenues as a result of the productive
economic activity that would be generated! The creation
of skilled jobs and the construction of infrastructure
to support the retooling and reindustrialization of our
economy, is the only way of increasing a tax base
ravaged by debt creation and declines in employment.
If we're going to get out of this depression,
we're going to need a flow of credit from a national
bank. LaRouche has proposed it since 1976--and people
are paying for not having listened. In the 1992
election, American citizens have one more chance.
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John Covici
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- Chapter 9 -
- `Jumpstart' for the U.S.A. for the `Productive Triangle' -
{This outline of LaRouche's ``Productive
Triangle'' plan was presented by his German associate,
Ralf Schauerhammmer of the Fusion Energy Foundation, at
a March 1-2, 1991 conference in Bonn.}
The concept of the ``Productive Triangle'' was
published at the end of 1989 by the American politician
and economist Lyndon H. LaRouche--directly after the
successful revolutions in the Eastern European
countries concluded--and submitted by a work group at
the beginning of 1990 in a well worked-out form. The
essential features of this report have in the meantime
appeared in every major language, and been circulated
among specialists.
The ``European Productive Triangle'' proposal
(named for the Paris-Berlin-Vienna triangle which forms
the industrial and economic core of Europe) is to meet
the great challenge of the freeing of more than 20
nations from communism, with a new Marshall Plan on a
bigger scale. It is a plan to {rebuild the economic
infrastructure of the whole continent}--transport,
communications, electric power--with the most modern
technologies; in the process reconnecting western and
eastern Europe which were split apart by the Iron
Curtain for 50 years under the Yalta agreements.
Before I present a summary of the essential points
of the concept of the Productive Triangle, I would like
to present the cornerstones on which this concept is
constructed, since that is the only way to understand
why this concept has been, through the present day, the
only realistic and practically realizable proposal for
the future of Europe.
I would also like to do that because various
proposals that have taken up parts of the Productive
Triangle--the proposal of Deutsche Bank chief economist
Norbert Walter; or the proposal of the Thuringian prime
minister, Joseph Duchac--show that the authors have not
taken these conceptual cornerstones seriously enough,
or have not sufficiently understood them.
These cornerstones are:
1) The concept of the Productive Triangle is
intended as an intervention into the world economy. In
this connection, it should be noted that a) the command
economy of currently existing socialism has ruined the
national economies subject to it; b) the march into the
``post-industrial society'' in the West has brought
most national economies of ``the free market'' to the
brink of collapse; and c) the physical existence of the
nations of the developing sector is threatened through
the so-called debt crisis.
2) Given a realistic evaluation of the existing
physical potential of all national economies, only a
Europe working together in a Productive Triangle,
together with Japan and some emergent developing
countries, can pull the world economy out of this
precarious condition.
3) The investments proposed for the Productive
Triangle presume that the principles of ``physical
economy'' will again be considered. These are the
principles that in the last century made America into
the leading nation economically.
4) The backbone of the policy of the Productive
Triangle is investments in infrastructure. Only on this
foundation can the productive mid-range of industry
come into existence. Along with the energy sector--here
the irrational anti-nuclear policy must finally be
stopped--the transportation sector is of decisive
importance.
- Paris-Berlin-Vienna -
Consideration alone of the population density and
the heavily populated regions of Europe allows us to
identify the topology of the Productive Triangle. It is
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