Infrastructure and NAWAPA

How we conceive of the role of infrastructure in the coming decades will play a determining role as to the successful recovery of society today from the collapse currently underway. The lack of proper investment in, not only maintaining our existing infrastructure, such as water systems, locks and dams, rail corridors, and power systems, but also in promoting the application of higher levels of technology to new more advanced forms of infrastructure, has created the basis for the collapse now being faced. Accordingly, with the establishment of a new global credit system, a key phase of the LaRouche Plan for economic recovery involves massive investment into new modes of infrastructure.

The success of the Moon-Mars program as well as the Pacific Orientation , both features of my platform, will both be determined by a major upgrading of the world's infrastructure; this can and should be begun with the implementation of the North American Water and Power Alliance from the United States. It will be among the first of man’s projects to willfully redirect those larger processes determining the further evolution of the biosphere, as a whole. With projects such as the North American Water and Power Alliance (NAWAPA), redistributing vast amounts of water across almost every North American river basin, Mankind will be transforming not only the local characteristics of regions, but will be beginning to take into his hands fundamental relationships that the Earth as a whole has to solar and cosmic radiation. Only by such relationships becoming conscious objects of thought (and domains of action) will Mankind prepare for the deeper challenges which must be overcome as we expand our places of habitation and exploration out into the Solar System. This would give several milllion Americans from all over the country, including the high-tech regions of the Northeast, access to truly meaningful employment, in the immediate period.

NAWAPA in North America should be coupled with similar projects for the rest of the world, including the economic integration of the Eurasian continent, on a high-level technological basis, linked up with the US through a Bering Strait tunnel. As German stateswoman Helga-Zepp LaRouche has said, "This is not a question far ahead in the distant future; but, considering the different strategic parameters, the question of whether the US administration supports the success of this “Land-Bridge”, or remains indifferent, passive, or worse, will indeed determine whether mankind plunges into an incredible catastrophe—of which the developments in Africa give us a small foretaste—or whether instead, we stand on the threshold of the biggest economic miracle in world history."

LaRouche Platform

As a Democratic candidate for Congress against Bailout Barney Frank, here is the plan I would bring to Congress, based on the policies of economist Lyndon LaRouche:

Re-regulate the banks with a global Glass-Steagall, putting an end to the speculation and outright thievery which has brought our economy to its knees;

Instead of bailouts, extend credit to create jobs doing productive work, such as rebuilding our nation's infrastructure, and implementing a science-driver mission to colonize the moon and Mars;

Negotiate a new global fixed-exchange rate system, oriented towards cooperative sovereign development, especially with the nations of Russia, China, and India;

Rebuild a skilled workforce with a youth-training program modeled on Franklin Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps;

Abolish the Federal Reserve and return to a National Bank.

Credit System/ Bankruptcy Reorganization

“Shut down the bubble, or there is no solution.”

-Lyndon LaRouche

Remember Marley the ghost, in Dickens’ A Christmas Carol? He had a ball and chain weighing him down, a symbol of his bondage to his love of money. Now how many quadrillions of dollars did we allow financial institutions to create out of thin air? We allowed a system where debts were counted as assets, then used to borrow still more money. Barney Frank defended this policy, by delivering a housing bill that saved all of 49 homeowners from foreclosure in 2008, endorsing the ever-expanding TARP bailout program, by blocking proposed legislation to regulate financial derivatives and audit the Federal Reserve. Does Bailout Barney want to print more money to save a bankrupt system, while millions of families lose their homes and jobs?

What is the alternative? I support the LaRouche Plan. 1.) Cancel the bailout, get that money back. 2.) Reorganize the banks with Glass-Steagall reform. They’re bankrupt, you know? 3.) Create massive amounts of credit for large-scale infrastructure projects. 4.) Implement the Four Powers policy of cooperation between Russia, China, India and the United States.

This will be the basis of a new global credit system. A credit system will mean the end of the imperial method of controlling nations through their submission to money. In a credit system, money’s excuse for existing is as part of a physical-productive process. This is in contrast to what we have today, a monetary system. In a monetary system, money is bestowed with intrinsic value. You might have thought, “It has value, of course, because it is money!” Where does this money come from? If it’s created at the whim of a private financier, the issuance of money can be detrimental to the productive power of your economy, and thus the value of the money itself. Look at the housing bubble for instance, as only one of the financial bubbles created over recent decades. What was the effect of this bubble on productive industries in the United States? What happened to credit for farmers and small businesses? Valid, long-term sources of profit were ignored in favor of “get-rich-quick” financial investments. Productive companies were bought and sold and turned into overnight profits by hedge funds. Government-funded infrastructure was auctioned to private companies, placing citizens’ most basic needs in the clutches of London-Wall St. financier-parasites. The physical economy was hollowed out to feed an increasingly precarious financial bubble, until now, when we’ve reached a point of total collapse. Because of the combination of hyperinflation on the scale of 1923 Weimar, joined with the complete breakdown of the physical economy, there is no easy recovery in sight .

Instead, consider how Franklin Roosevelt revitalized the nation with great projects. By an act of Congress, and with one swipe of the President’s pen, the Treasury department was allowed to issue credit, to be invested in physical infrastructure. No one can ignore the beneficial effects of the Grand Coulee Dam, or the Tennessee Valley Authority, or the hundreds of libraries, schools, and hospitals, and thousands of miles of roads and power lines, which only the issuance of government credit could have caused.

Think of the value of these projects as a physical value, as they increased the productive powers of communities across the nation.

This means, money acquires value as it works to increase the productive powers of labor. Constitutionally, the Congress has the exclusive power to issue currency. No private institution has the right to forge something so vital to the health of our nation’s economy. Banks will obtain ample credit, which they then may provide for the service of circulation, as we rebuild our infrastructure, construct an international rail system, and produce the technologies and materials necessary for a Moon/Mars colonization program.

I’m going to lead this fight in Congress. Send Bailout Barney to the unemployment line.

Moon/Mars program

“For mankind, the rule is, increase the relative energy-flux density of technologies and of sources of power, or be doomed.” -Lyndon LaRouche

Human beings are born to make discoveries. That’s what we do, that no other species does. That’s also how we increase our potential population density. “But isn’t that bad?” an attendee at the oligarchy’s genocidal Copenhagen conference might ask. “We have too many people already! They can’t fit on the planet!” OK, no problem. Let’s get off this planet. This is a debate that would be better had in space, where it would be amply clear that the method of thinking of flat-Earthers like Barney Frank, is mortally flawed.

Are you to tell me, that there’s a problem a human being can’t solve? John F. Kennedy found the right words, when he said, we are going to the moon, “Not because it is easy, but because it is hard!” Principally, that should be the basis of all economic practice, that we set goals which are seemingly impossible, and figure out how to achieve them. Look at the rate at which new technologies were spawned out of the Apollo program. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that, without the challenge posed by Kennedy, the upwelling of scientific creativity we saw, would not have happened.

Even more importantly, allowing our space program to fizzle out has left many fundamental scientific questions unanswered, and others, unasked. After depriving NASA of any substantial funding, and shutting down the breakthrough-programs in nuclear rocketry which were on the horizon in the post-moon landing period, it has become a curiosity for some, an afterthought for most Americans, and a passion for all too few. The achievements made, unfortunately, are interesting but not awe-inspiring. I’m not criticizing NASA. Yes, leading scientists should have fought more for the importance of what they were doing, but it’s been the insanity of an anti-science, environmentally deranged culture, which produced the politicians who eliminated our science-driver programs, and were lauded for it.

We must revive the space program, to inspire the population, and make our youth excited to take part in humanity. There are many things to discover, and some areas where we are already on the cusps of making advances. For example, our current rocket technology is inadequate. With the thrust created by chemical-propulsion rockets, it would take about 140 days to get to Mars. By this time, the astronauts will have suffered major bone deterioration and other physical effects. This will not do! With nuclear propulsion rockets, we could get to Mars in 3-7 days, by accelerating at a constant rate, thereby generating the effect of a force equivalent to Earth’s gravity, that is, 1G acceleration. This will begin the age of relativistic space flight. This is something mankind has never done! We have domesticated the principle of light, harnessing its powers for our own activities, likewise for electricity, magnetism, and heat, but with gravitation? Not yet. What will happen to physical space-time as we induce brand-new phenomena into the Universe? We don’t know. It will be an opportunity to study things we have previously only observed under Earth-bound conditions, that is, under the Earth’s gravitational and magnetic field. Science will gain new meaning when we can conduct the same experiments simultaneously on Earth, Mars, in an orbital path around the Moon, and while traveling at relativistic speeds in the oceans of space.

Our fueling station en route to Mars will be the moon. Solar wind has deposited an abundance of helium-3 on the moon’s surface, which just so happens to be the ideal fuel for thermonuclear fusion propelled rockets. Also, the moon has less gravitational effect than the Earth, so it would become the preferred location for the assembly and transport of large cargo shipments to Mars.

After Mars, where do we go next? I’m not sure, that’s for our children to find out.

Pacific Orientation

Since our United States was merely a twinkle in Nicholaus of Cusa’s eye, before Columbus’ voyage to discover a new world, where modern civilization would be transplanted a safe distance away from the disgusting traditions of oligarchism and slavery, we have had a westward imperative. For colonial settlers, that meant traversing the Allegheny and Blue Ridge mountains in the 1700’s, and to Americans rallied by Abraham Lincoln’s leadership after the Civil War, reaching the Pacific coast by rail. Today, that principle is represented by a four power alliance among Russia, China, India and the United States. Only with this combination of nation-state power can we defeat the London-dominated financial system today, by shifting from a world monetary system, to a world credit system.

Europe is no longer a community of sovereign nations, but a community of dead nations. South and Central America are controlled by drug gangs. The remaining nations which have a sense of national identity, are these four. Russia possesses vast raw material resources sorely needed for the development of Asia, and has the scientific expertise to utilize them effectively. China is one of the world’s great nations. Obviously the world’s future will feature China in a leading role, and they have confirmed their commitment to national sovereignty, through such measures as rejecting international enforcement of climate change laws. India, with different cultural traits, has shown an inclination to cast off the legacy of the British Commonwealth, and become a world power, by moving in this direction. The United States, although governed by a stupid puppet President Obama, has repeatedly kicked the British out of our country, and as a people, we have a proud history of kicking oligarchs’ rear ends. It’s part of our Constitution. Other nations like Japan, South Korea, Australia, and Canada, as well as leading nations in Africa and Ibero-America, could be readily incorporated, as they each have their own valuable contributions to make to such a system.

This would create an unstoppable force of positive development, beyond the reach of monetary methods of control.

Groundbreaking developments are being made around the world right now. In meetings in October, Russia and China signed hundreds of economic agreements, emphasizing construction of high speed rail, expansion of nuclear power, and joint efforts in space technology. India is involved, having signed a technology transfer agreement with Russia, allowing them to build dozens of nuclear plants on India’s extensive coastlines, and utilize their thorium reserves. In China’s case, their policy is to seek refuge in a new global system of credit, by escaping the monetary inferno. They are financing these development projects with their US Treasury holdings, thereby giving a physical value to otherwise worthless financial paper.

Now, the United States must adopt the same policy of survival, by casting aside all ties to the City of London, to set a new horizon, on the Pacific.