The time has come for the nations of the world to make a dramatic shift in economic policy: away from the fraudulent, or more rightly stated, evil, monetarist system, that currently threatens to plunge our entire civilization into a prolonged, planetary-wide “new dark age”. If we wish to survive, we must reverse the policies of de-industrialization, of killing domestic agriculture, of abandoning essential infrastructure and, most importantly, of the destruction of our NASA-led science programs.
This is precisely what LaRouchePAC has set out to accomplish. The contents provided on this page, outline LaRouche's programmatic approach, derived from his 'LaRouche Plan', to revive the United States physical economy, and reverse the decadent policies that have brought us to the brink of utter ruin. From this standpoint, we can then implement Lyndon LaRouche's Four Powers agreement, in collusion with Russia, China, and India. If we are able to establish that combination of forces, civilization will have the chance it needs to fulfill its proper destiny of scientific, technological, and cultural development. Educate yourself with this material and organize others to do the same.
• For New, Productive Employment
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Currently, the United States has a labor force of young people which is not qualified to do much more than pick their nose. Therefore, we're going to have to create in the United States, a peculiar kind of revival of what Roosevelt created as the CCC, the Civilian Conservation Corps. We're going to have to take these young people, who have very little chance of developing modern skills, and we're going to have to open an academic type of alternative to military service, or it may include people in military service; but like a Corps of Engineers, in an extended sense. And taking young people into this, and giving them an orientation to begin to develop themselves as becoming a productive force in society, a meaningful force.
Lyndon LaRouche calls for the creation of a modern Civilian Conservation Corps(CCC) to offer today's youth generation the necessary skills and cultural orientation to carry forth a 'true' recovery of our economy. President Franklin Roosevelt's historic CCC proved to be a success! Today, with both the nation's economy and the future of the youth at stake, can we make it happen again?
World wide unemployment is one thing, but have you ever thought about what the "employed" are actually doing? The two factors combined show a dramatic picture: the level of technology and the skill level of the population can no longer support 6.7 billion people. What is wrong with the current metrics of economy? What is the true economic value of man?
• Bankruptcy Re-Organization
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The bankruptcy reorganization needed for our crumbling economic system today, which lies at the root of the LaRouche Plan, means removing all support for the Monetary system. All illegitimate debt claims on monetary assets of whatever form, will be canceled. The Glass-Steagall standard will be applied to all banking, and any bank engaged in deposit banking-functions will not be legally allowed to engage in speculation, and vice versa. No longer will purely fictitious monetary activity be financed; the financial curve will be rejoined once again to its natural, functional relationship with those activities of the physical economy which define real economic value -- those activities which increase the productive powers of labor of our nation's workforce, the potential population density of our nation's territory, and the increase in technology and power available for our nation's manufacturers and farmers. This action, of bankruptcy reorganization, will free our national economy from the looming demise of the Triple Curve collapse function, and towards the ideal double curve growth function -- an economic system free from the disease of imperial monetarism.
While Europe was still kneeling to Kings, Alexander Hamilton created a system that bluntly defined the wealth of imperial monetary systems as meaningless. Under Hamilton's revolutionary credit system, only the sovereign currency regulated by government has value and no other currencies are allowed in circulation.
Fought for throughout our history, the U.S. national bank is the key to our sovereignty. This is the fight waged on behalf of the bank by American patriots Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams and others against the traitor Andrew Jackson.
• New, High Speed Rail Systems
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The functional concept of the railroad-system, as a system, was clearly established in intention, by the work done by President John Quincy Adams’ defining the policy of establishing the United States as a transcontinental nation, from the Canadian northern border to the Mexican border, at the south, and overland from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific. Today, the United States requires the implementation of high-speed ground-based transport, as by rail or magnetic-levitation rail systems, which is both the optimal policy, and the modality which is optimal for both the people and the productive economy. The over-emphasis on dependency on the private automobile, instead of rail and comparable modes, has been insane, and very costly, in its sundry varieties of effects.
Considering the past 40 years of sheer monetarist lunacy and rabid take-down of the world's physical economy, what the world urgently needs now is development--and A LOT of it! One of the most indispensable things for global development, is the Eurasian Land-Bridge, an international infrastructure project put forth by Lyndon and Helga LaRouche.
• A Real, FDR Health Policy
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The HMO system is to be canceled, and replaced immediately by a return to a Hill-Burton design of system, with a funding mechanism, by the Federal government, which will be the funding to reestablish the Hill-Burton standard, for hospitals and other institutions as they stand now. In other words, as each institution stands now, immediately they're going into protection under a Hill-Burton program, for all related institutions, and the funding for that, will come through a single-payer-type program, which the Conyers bill is a good keystone around which to build this result. That's a practical matter: It can work. It will work.
Where does the standard for Universal American Healthcare come from? Franklin Roosevelt's Hill-Burton standard. The current "health reform" proposal of President Barack Obama comes no where close to the breakthrough healthcare policy that Roosevelt established in the 1940's, and furthermore, Obama's policy if not defeated will kill more people than the Nazi's did with their "health reform". There are much deeper issues that must be considered in crafting a successful Health Care policy today, issues of mortality, immortality, making decisions based on the future, what is real value versus monetary value and so on. These were the kinds of issues Roosevelt had to confront PERSONALLY, in his near death experience with polio. The discoveries made by Roosevelt in personally overcoming the limitations of his mortality gave him the proper lens through which to situate his identity in the long span of history, and think of policies like healthcare as security for the posterity of the nation and a defence of the gereral welfare as our constitution dictates, rather than today's cost cutting fiscally frenzied President. So, the time has come to learn the lessons of Franklin Roosevelt's approach to public health. Repeal HMO's and Revive the Hill-Burton standard!
• Nuclear Power Production
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The increase of the human species is bounded by mankind’s willful ability and disposition to create the improvements of the environment on which the sustaining, and the improvement of the condition of the human population depends. The present urgency of accelerated reliance on the development and proliferation of nuclear-fission and, eventually thermonuclear-fusion sources of power, together with the duty of exploring our Solar system—and the universe beyond—exemplifies the present requirement for meeting what are the presently foreseeable of the essential existential needs, and proper aims of all mankind.
From the scientific optimism of the early twentieth century to the anti-technology, environmentalist attacks by the British Empire, we find ourselves at a point in history where either we vastly expand our use of nuclear power for a Moon-Mars mission, or you can kiss human civilization good-bye.
Solar, wind, and other "soft" or "free" energy sources have been continually proven inadequate, and moreover, will do nothing more than power the acceleration of monetary collapse, andhuman deaths, were we to adopt green policies. What we must do instead, is to promote qualitative---not quantitative---increases in power supply, throughout the entire world, now. Therefore, we must, if we wish to survive, shift towards Nuclear power.
• The Extra-Terrestrial Imperative
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"You must have a high rate of technological and related progress, scientific and technological progress. To do that you need a driver program. Since the 1920s, the indicated driver program—which was started actually in Germany, but other people were involved, Goddard, for example, in the United States—was the idea of going to the Moon. For it was understood by any astronomer or any competent person, that if you want to go into space, beyond Earth, the first thing you have to do is go to the Moon, to our Moon, and establish a base on the Moon from which you enter space—economically. And to do that you have to build industries on the Moon which enable you to build the equipment which you will go into space with. From there you go to Mars.
"...This must be done now, because fifty years is two generations of children coming to adulthood. Some have graduated from the university. We have to think about the future of mankind. Because what is it we have to do? We've got to inspire little children today, in the educational system and so forth, inspire them with the idea of doing this. You're going to have children saying, "Mummy, can I go to Mars?" "Will I be able to go to Mars before I'm old, like you, Mummy?" And it's that kind of thinking, cultural thinking which you embed in the culture of the nation and its policies, which inspires people to think of their own lives as meaning something." -Lyndon LaRouche, August 21st 2009
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This feature video explores the “Extraterrestrial Imperative” for humankind to develop both our own planet as well as the rest of the solar system. A new economics of space colonization begins with the industrialization of the Moon as a precursor to accelerated, fusion-powered flight to Mars.
Part two of the New Economics deals with fusion-powered spaceflight as an integral part of national economic planning, by examining 1.) The measurement of physical-economic value and the notion of physical profit, 2.) The case of the 1960 Apollo Project as a physical-economic science driver for the United States, and 3.) The frontier questions of science that will represent both the impetus for, as well as the fruits of, a fusion-powered Moon-Mars program, especially in the area of biology and the relationship of electromagnetic radiation to living processes. Watch this, and you'll never again believe the lie that "space travel costs too much."
