

May 22, 2001 (Germany)---LaRouche Democratic leader Ron Bettag today announced his candidacy for Mayor of the City of Chicago. He released the following statement on the theme of his campaign: "As Shakespeare, today, were to say: "So foul and 'futzed' a day I have not seen." That a United States citizen, and more specifically, a resident of the city of Chicago, the best example of a city built "overnight" in the middle of an 1834 "nowhere"; that any such resident citizen should be discussing a third regional airport, while the entire world begins to implement Lyndon LaRouche's Eurasian highspeed, integrated "Landbridge" rail system, should leave even the remaining "could-have-been" Gore "cling-on's" speechless. At the May 4-6, 2001 conference in Bad Schwalbach, Germany, 400 individuals representing the governments and policy-making networks of 40 nations met under the call and direction of 2004 Democrat Presidential candidate, Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., elaborating and moving to the political implementation phase the 1992 "Eurasian Landbridge" concept of LaRouche. The construction of these development corridors energized through a New Bretton Woods financial arrangement, is the only alternative to the global financial collapse, economic disintegration, and general chaos to which the current British/Energy cartel Bush Administration is insanely committed. Such fascism, globally, nationally, and locally, has not, can not, and will not function. Such a high speed rail commitment to the "Landbridge" and a New Bretton Woods arrangement by the United States citizens, politically, would immediately open a domestic demand for a minimum of 50 million tons of new, specialty steel; four (4) times the amount of energy; and 2-3 millions of idle, 18-25 year-old youth in CCC-type rail construction projects, not to mention the demand for machine tools and other exports globally.



The question of national re-regulation of energy (The insanity of deregulation is obvious in this context), and the need to maintain and lift the general welfare are the immediate, only issues. All hospitals, beginning with the national, standard-bearer fight, Washington D.C. General Hospital now under KKK-Katie Graham siege, must be defended and expanded in light of the general disease threat to the global General Welfare and common good. The presently, collapsing, financial "bubble" can orderly be dealt with a Chapter 11-style bankruptcy reorganization, as Lyndon LaRouche has proposed and detailed for years, in the context of such real, infrastructural development globally. Return to a real economy; destroy the fictitious paper, not the people. This would be the topic of any sane meeting underway in this period, especially the upcoming U.S. Mayor's conference in Detroit in June. To paraphrase Shakespeare once again: "If we were to come to our senses, when 'tis done, were well it were done quickly..." For a more printer friendly version of this release Click Here