LaRouche: State of the Union Address, 2003

- We Set the World To Work for Us -
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- We Set the World To Work for Us -

That's the policy. So we came to the point that we said, other countries will produce for us, cheaply, by virtual slave labor. We set the world to work for us. How'd we do it? We rigged the prices. We regulated the values of currencies. We actually have been conducting a system of slavery against other countries, to supply us with what we eat, what we wear. Where do you find a shoe factory in the United States? Where do you find clothing factories? How many? How many automobile parts in the automobile you're driving, are actually American-made? Why'd you get things at these prices?

Because we decided we were going to become a Roman Empire. Or, some of us. We were going to turn our people into parasites, what the Romans did to the Italian population, the citizens of Italy in their time. And loot the rest of the world. And regulate the world by methods of tyranny, military tyranny.

This intention already began back at the end of World War II, with some people who said, ``We must imitate''--Sam Huntington--``We must imitate the Nazis.'' He wrote a book called {The Soldier and the State}, published out of Harvard. It's a policy of creating a {Waffen-SS}, an international {Waffen-SS}, of stone killers who will go out and slaughter people. A new kind of military, like the Roman legions, with a Roman legion policy. There's no inconsistency between Sam Huntington's conception of a new military, an international {Waffen-SS} military, a Roman legion military, and his policy of pushing for war against Iraq, Clash of Civilizations war, and so forth.

So here we stand. Now look at what happened to us. This case of, what happened to the lower 80% of the family income brackets of the United States under these conditions? (You have the chart on it--there.) You see what happened. It's very simple. The figures are more or less self-explanatory. You go back to 1977, about the time that Brezinski took over the U.S. government. Take the lower 80% of the family-income brackets of the United States. What has happened to them? These are just official figures. The actuality is much worse.

So what we did, is we created a new policy. The lower 80% were largely people who worked, middle- to lower-income producers; farmers; manufacturers; even people who have small businesses, or manufacturing businesses--pushed out! Large, giant corporations or similar interests, controlled by financier interests, looting the nation at home, destroying our population, and destroying the healthcare system.

So we had this two-fold process of going from a producer society, where the image of the citizen was that ``I am a producer. Or I represent a family that produces wealth, in agriculture, or I teach things that are necessary to people that do produce wealth. I provide medical services to people who produce wealth. I help citizens in the community survive. I produce {wealth}. I am important; I am justified, because {I produce wealth}. I have nothing to be ashamed of before the eyes of the world. I earn my way. And I take care of those who aren't capable of doing so.'' And that's it.

We've changed that society to a society of parasites, increasingly, in what we consume. We destroyed our industries. We destroyed out infrastructure. Right now, we do not have a railroad system in the United States. And if the Congress does not act, in about this week, we won't have Amtrak. The last of it's about to go. Look at the air traffic system. United is in bankruptcy. American is in similar condition. United is the largest; it's crashing. Under the present bankruptcy rules, what is left of United is going to be forced into a price war against other airlines in the nation. The entire air traffic system's about to go.

Now look at this from a manufacturer's standpoint, or a producer's standpoint. How can you get from one place to the other in the United States, in a regular way, through mass-transport passenger and freight transport? The system doesn't exist! We are a disintegrating nation, as a producer nation.

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