Thousands of Transportation Workers Agree: "2008 is Too Late" to Get Rid of Cheney

May 17 (LPAC) -- A "Day of Action" Rally organized by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, to which all transportation workers were organized for the first time ever--rail, aviation, mass transit, long shore, maritime and the trucking industries--took place on the Mall in Washington D.C. today.

The rally challenged the 2008 Presidential candidates to declare their commitment to transportation labor issues and the conviction that the Cheney-Bush Administration has wrecked the nation's transportation grid through its policies toward the transportation workforce. The rally was titled "Enough is enough," but the solutions, beyond protecting workers rights, were all proposed by the forces of Lyndon LaRouche on the scene.

The transportation workers flocked to an "Impeach Cheney" table set up by LaRouche organizers with the banner "2008 is too late." Impeachment was definitely on the table at this rally, organizers reported.

Rep. Dennis Kucinich, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, who authored H. Res. 333, calling for Cheney's impeachment for "high crimes and misdemeanors" against the United States, spoke to the unionists, calling on them to support his impeachment move, which has three co-sponsors at present.

LaRouche literature-- including LaRouche PAC's "The Old Economics is Dead: the New Economics Must Begin," fairly flew off the "impeachment" table. Recognition of Democratic statesman Lyndon LaRouche was high: "Oh, yeah, LaRouche--he's the one who told the truth, so they went after him."

The rally also heard from 2004 Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry, Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Rep. George Miller (Chair of the House Committee on Labor and Education), among 10 additional Congressmen and a handful of Senators, including Democratic Presidential candidates Sens. Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden.

Sen. Kerry attacked the high salaries of hedge fund workers, without proposing that they be shut down. Hedge fund operators like Wilbur Ross, who destroyed much of the nation's air transportation grid, got off with a scolding for overpaying themselves. Huge quantities of Larouche Pac literature was distributed to the elected officials, including the proposal for a rail line and tunnel under the Bering Strait to connect Russia and Alaska, reports on the deadly Cerberus takeover of Chrysler, and LaRouche's original proposal to retool the auto industry, the Emergency Recovery Act of 2006.