December 3, 2008 (LPAC)--Lyndon LaRouche today dismissed the political acrobatics going on in Washington this week around a proposed "bail out package" for the U.S. auto industry as "escapism," noting that none of the proposals coming from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Leader Harry Reid are going to work.
"There's not going to be a rescue of the auto industry," LaRouche stated. It's unsalvageable in its current form. Those on Capitol Hill and elsewhere who are discussing this are escaping from the real issue of the global sytemic collapse underway. What they are proposing will not work. The only thing that will work is a return to my policy from 2005, which is to use the machine-tool capabilities in the former auto sector to launch infrastructure projects and job creation under conditions of bankruptcy reorganization of the whole financial system."
"Pelosi and her banker friends like Felix Rohatyn," LaRouche continued, "sabotaged my policy in 2005 and 2006, and what Pelosi is engaging in now is auto-eroticism. Anything other than my policy is a waste of time and money, and pure b.s. If you want to help the U.S. economy," LaRouche said,"dump Pelosi."
In his Nov. 18 internation webcast, LaRouche also addressed the auto issue, as follows:
"For example, the question will come up; it comes up all over the place: Shouldn't we go back to making automobiles again? No! I fought for that back in 2005, and early 2006. The Congress of the United States killed the idea of saving the automobile industry, when I was about to save it. They killed it in February of 2006: Now, the same idiots, who killed the automobile industry and destroyed it in February 2006, are now saying they're going to come back and start producing automobiles again, having destroyed the market for, and the ability to produce automobiles! Simply because people want to manufacture automobiles, there's a form of fantasy life now! There's no sense for the United States to go back into the automobile industry, not at this time. It's insane! But it's attractive to people who don't think."
"Why are the people who shut down the auto industry, in February 2006 when I was working to save it, or save part of it, and save the industry, as well as the automobile production--why do they want to start it up now? They shut it down! The present Speaker of the House was one of those who shut it down! She says she's now promoting it! Did she change her mind? Did she change some other things? It's all fakery."
"What we need now, is not U.S.-produced automobiles--the Japanese are doing a fine job of more than filling all our requirements. There is an excess of automobile production, en masse, throughout the world! Why are we going back into the automobile manufacturing business? To produce vehicles we can't sell? Just to look at them?"
"Well, let's try something else: Let's take the highways around here. What's the congestion: How much time do you lose every day in commuting to work in the Washington, D.C. area? What is it, two hours commuting for you? Two and a half hours each way? What are the tolls you pay on these routes? How much of your personal life is lost by this commuting--as opposed to what you would have, if you had a high-speed rapid-transit system network to transport you, without having to drive the car, without having to smell the other guy's gas, ahead of you. You're getting sick."
"How would you like to have more time for family life? If you're spending five hours a day commuting, what kind of family, if you have two adults, both working, and some children: What kind of a family life are you creating, for Americans with that kind of arrangement? Shouldn't we have, instead of all these automobiles on the highway, with all these tolls, and all these fumes to smell from the automobile in front you--wouldn't it be better to get a shorter, and faster transportation system? And to have a better family life? Maybe a few hours a day saved, for some kind of normal family life, not wondering what your children are doing all these crazy hours?"
"Don't we have a shortage of clean power sources? Don't we have a shortage of investment in manufacturing things that we need, which we're wasting on this sort of stuff?"
"And, do you have clean water? Do any of you remember the time, you could get safe, fresh water, out of a city water system, from a tap? Do you remember when that was? How many bottles of bottled water do you drink a day? How much does it cost you? How much did it used to cost you, the same amount of water, safely out of a tap?"
"So, what you need--the conditions of life and the conditions of production; we have a shortage of infrastructure in this country, of basic economic infrastructure."
