August 3, 2007 (LPAC)--Seeking to cram his corporatist program through in the wake of the Minnesota bridge collapse, Felix Rohatyn told reporters August 2 that a report of his, released last year by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, was a forewarning of the infrastructure deficit that went mostly unnoticed until now. The Salt Lake Tribune quoted Rohatyn saying, "As much as I feel terrible for what happened to the people on that bridge, people don't pay any attention to anything unless people start dying."

The Wall Street Journal, currently being transferred into the hands of British empire rightist figure Rupert Murdoch, is trying hard to stoke Rohatyn's credibility against the LaRouche movement's constant public hammering of Rohatyn, the fascist. The Journal quotes Rohatyn as the mentor to the ill-advised "infrastructure bank" proposal by Senators Dodd and Hagel:

"In the 1960s, the federal government and states paid roughly equal amounts to fund infrastructure projects, but state and local governments bear most of the costs these days, according to the Center for Strategic & International Studies, a Washington think tank. 'The commitment of the federal government has been sharply reduced,' said Felix Rohatyn, a former Wall Street banker and CSIS trustee who helped to develop the senators' bank proposal."

The Century Foundation, a think-tank close in outlook to Rohatyn's Democratic Leadership Council, similarly promotes Felix. The foundation's vice president Greg Anrig, Jr., says on their Web site,

"....developing a far more effective and efficient strategy for improving public security against disasters like the one in Minneapolis requires the leadership of individuals who actually believe in governments capacity to solve problems a belief fundamentally at odds with the modern conservative movement, as demonstrated in recent years. [Presidential] candidates might want to take a close look at the ideas put forward by the group led by Felix Rohatyn and Warren Rudman, summarized here...."