The LaRouche-Bevel Program to Save the Nation Reversing 30 Years of Post-Industrial Suicide Independents for Economic Recovery, LaRouche for President Leesburg, Virginia October 1992. - Contents - Preface Introduction Meet the Candidates Chapter 1: Why We Are Suffering Through a New Great Depression Chapter 2: Solving the Fresh Water Crisis Chapter 3: Building New Railways, Waterways, and Highways Chapter 4: Mag-Lev: The Technology of the 21st Century Chapter 5: Nuclear Fission: Bridge to Fusion Power Chapter 6: The Best Health Care for Every American Chapter 7: Restore Literacy and Classical Education Chapter 8: LaRouche's Program for 6 Million New Jobs Chapter 9: `Jumpstart' for the U.S.A. from the `Productive Triangle' Chapter 10: Great Projects to Develop the World Chapter 11: Frontier in Space: LaRouche's Moon-Mars Program LaRouche on America's National Purpose Chapter 12: Revive Family Farming and Feed the World Chapter 13: LaRouche's Program for a War on AIDS Chapter 14: Why LaRouche Calls NAFTA `Auschwitz Below the Border' Chapter 15: How the United States Became a Police State {The Theological and Constitutional Alternative to the Death Penalty} by the Reverend James L. Bevel Appendix: The LaRouche-Bevel Announcement Appendix: Proposed Federal Reserve Nationalization Act of 1992 - Preface - This book presents the program of independent presidential candidate Lyndon H. LaRouche and his vice-presidential running mate, the Reverend James Luther Bevel, to create 6 to 8 million jobs during the first months of their administration. It outlines the emergency economic measures through which the current world depression can be ended, including 1) declaring a national economic emergency; 2) constitutionalizing the Federal Reserve; 3) undertaking needed large-scale infrastructure and development projects in the areas of transportation, energy production, water, education, and health care; and 4) implementing international and domestic debt restructuring and moratoria. The program that the LaRouche-Bevel ticket proposes was successfully implemented during the era of President John F. Kennedy's space program, and before that, during the later years of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt presidency. It was successfully implemented by our greatest President, Abraham Lincoln, even in the midst of a bloody civil war. Today, the LaRouche-Bevel program--known during the last century as the American System--represents the only hope for a world that is financially and economically bankrupt and filled with starvation, disease, unemployment, poverty, terrorism, civil strife, and increasing desperation. Can we fail to act at a time when we know that the drug-infested schools of our nation are threatening the destruction of the hearts and minds of our children? Can we fail to act when we see the starving and terrified faces of children fleeing from war-torn Bosnia? Do we see not only terrible, personal anguish, but the beginnings of European-wide and worldwide conflict and war? We are losing generations of our young people because of a neo-Malthusian economic policy, imposed on the nation since the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy. Since the murder of Kennedy, every American President has helped implement this post-industrial policy. Industry and agriculture have been abandoned for real estate and commodities speculation, junk bonds, and communications ``industries.'' Shopping centers, office towers, and mobile phones have replaced factories and farms. MacDonald's is one of our nation's largest employers; at thousands of hamburger outlets across the country, young people serve up McMuffins and Big Macs, but don't know how to make change without a computerized cash register. Meanwhile, America's highly skilled steel and machine-tool workers have been put out of work and/or placed into low-skilled jobs. Our workforce is either unemployed or underemployed. We are creating economic disasters within the recently emerged democracies of eastern Europe by insisting that they also tear down their industry and implement radical free trade doctrines. Lyndon LaRouche has demonstrated that the collapse of the Third World economies and the destruction of the economic base of eastern Europe is a result of a colonial economic doctrine administered through the ``conditionalities'' austerity policies of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Colonial policy calls for abandoning industry and growing cash crops for export which, for many nations in Ibero-America and elsewhere, increasingly has become marijuana and cocaine. This policy turned inward has created a United States that increasingly resembles a Third World country where the middle class, made up of skilled blue collar and white collar workers, shrinks, and more and more people are impoverished. This book presents the alternative. The LaRouche-Bevel ticket has outlined a program that can restore economic, political, and social justice to the nation and the world. The LaRouche-Bevel ticket opposes the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the GATT proposal because they are colonialist, radical free trade doctrines that are designed to destroy the last remnant of economic independence remaining to farmers and the labor movement. To restore the principles of redemptive justice to this country, their campaign has called for ending the barbaric practice of capital punishment. They have also called for opening the files on the Kennedy and King assassinations and the politically motivated incarceration of Lyndon H. LaRouche. LaRouche and his associates have led a decades-long battle against the drug mafias and the colonial policies of the IMF and the World Bank which spawned them. Reverend Bevel brings to the ticket a wealth of experience. He served as director of non-violent political action for Martin Luther King; was leader of the Children's March in Birmingham, Alabama; helped lead the Selma Right to Vote movement; and served as director of the Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam. During recent years, Reverend Bevel has devoted his energies to the organization of Precinct Councils, which involves engaging communities in political actions that strengthen the individual and community comprehension of constitutional processes. Reverend Bevel has also called for putting prayer and classical education back into the schools, where drugs and the teaching of so-called alternative lifestyles have become a substitute for real education. The political combination of LaRouche and Bevel brings together defined economic alternatives to the colonial destruction of the world, together with the best of the leadership and the hopes and aspirations of the civil rights movement. The LaRouche-Bevel ticket provides hope for the voters, who hitherto have been offered the lesser-of-two-evils alternative of George Bush and Bill Clinton. Now there is a choice. The responsibility for the outcome of this year's presidential election is with you, the voter. Your vote can determine the course of history. ---- John Covici covici@ccs.covici.com