Al Gore & Nazi Banker Rohatyn, Administer "Death by Greening" to NYC

April 27 (EIRNS)-Global warming is the latest pretext for a new fascist looting scheme against New York, and none other than Al Gore and Felix Rohatyn, the Lehman Brothers financier infamous for his role in the 1973 fascist Pinochet coup in Chile, have teamed up to push it through.

On "Earth Day," (or Hitler's birthday, same difference) New York billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in his city by 30% by the year 2030, by taxing New Yorkers and visitors to the city $8 for any weekday driving in most of Manhattan. The mayor proposes the tax revenue thus gouged out would fund a $30 billion regional transit financing authority.

Al Gore endorsed the plan, calling it "gutsy," on April 26, but it was Rohatyn who spilled the beans on its real purpose, in a Financial Times commentary April 27. According to Rohatyn, Bloomberg's regional financing authority is a new, green version of the Municipal Assistance Corporation (MAC) which he personally headed in the 1970s. Heading the "Big MAC", Rohatyn ensured that bondholders got paid when the city went bankrupt in 1975, by increasing sales taxes and savaging New York City basic public services (education, health, garbage, fire, etc.) The city has yet to recover. (")

This new scheme is yet another proof that Lyndon LaRouche was right, when he warned Democrats that the party will not survive, until it kicks out such financier vultures as Gore and Rohatyn.