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- The Case of Murawiec and Marc Rich -
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Now Lautenbach, and an economist called ladimir] Woytinsky, were among the leaders who made this proposal at that time. If it had been carried out, in 1931, at the time it had been made, {Hitler would never have come to power.} FDR carried forth {precisely that program, and saved the United States.} That's what we have to do, now. No more Kemp-Roth tax cuts! Go back to Kennedy investment tax credits instead.
Now, there are legislative categories to be considered. We need, first of all, as I proposed in what was published in a pamphlet form, in part, a Super-TVA program, of essential projects to get the nation's economy moving. These are largely infrastructure. We need to rebuild the rail system. China now has the most advanced rail system in the world. It's a small segment from Shanghai city to the newly built Shanghai airport. A job done in two years, over very difficult terrain, and it worked. It went from Shanghai city to Shanghai airport, at speeds of up to 431 kilometers per hour. Smoothly, without tipping over roses and the flowers that were sitting in front of Chancellor of Germany and the Prime Minister of China. That is a technology which exists. China intends to extend this from Shanghai to other nearby cities; and is working on similar railroad projects of the type for China as a whole. China is building the great Three Gorges Dam system, one of the largest engineering projects in the world. China is bring water from the high level of China, northward, to the low level, where there's water insufficiency. And so forth, and so on.
China has responded to the collapse of the world economy, by moving, currently, to large-scale infrastructure projects, as a substitute, for the lost earnings from exports to the United States. China has to expect a 40-50% loss, in income, from exports to the United States. China had to face the reality, and said, "Now, we'll go to internal improvements, as a source of stimulus for the economy as a whole." They're doing it quite successfully.
There's also a project on the Brahmaputra River, one of the great rivers of the world, which comes out of Tibet. It comes dow through India, into Bangladesh, and into the Bay of Bengal. Here, a great project is planned: one of the great hydroelectric and water management programs of the world.
These kinds of things, we need them in the United States. We have, from the Arctic Ocean, down into the water-rich part of southern Mexico, we have a Great American Desert area, or large pockets of it; where we're dumping water into the Arctic Ocean, which should be coming southward into the so-called "Great American Desert," within the United States, and on to Mexico. Mexico has surplus water, which is located in the mountainous southern area, which is a great source of hydroelectric energy. If that water is moved along the coast, then it will go up to areas like Sonora, and there, it will build agriculture. So, if we have the two lines of a water-management project coming southward from the Arctic Ocean, and coming northward through Mexico; if we combine this with rail lines, which would, say, connect El Paso, Texas with Mexico City--this sort of thing--we now have changed the United States.
Look at the water levels in California! Look at the Southwestern United States: The water tables, the aquifers. They're collapsing! {We need major water projects.}
We don't have a competent transportation system for the United States. Our rail system and air-traffic system are either out of business or endangered. We need these things.
We need power. We're running out of power. Partly the result of Enron. We need large-scale, integrated, non-deregulated, systems of power production and distribution, based on regional distribution and regional requirements. This is in the Federal interest to have this, and it should be primarily work done, on the basis of the states. These are gigantic projects. We're talking about {billions} of dollars of investment for these kinds of complexes.
We need, again, large transportation systems. We need to connect the United States as well, coast to coast. Look, for example, I was in Los Angeles. I'm looking at the port area in Los Angeles--looking out across the Pacific. The greatest area of growth in the world today, potentially. What do we got there, in Los Angeles? What do you do? You've got a port, to handle this freight: What do you do with this freight? How do you get it there? What do you do with it, when you get it? What's your rail system? What kind of a transportation system do you have, to {move} this stuff?
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