The Coming Three Weeks Are Predetermined By Dynamics: Implement the Measures I Propose, or We Lose Humanity

On Tuesday December 22, Lyndon LaRouche gave the following address to a gathering of his associates.

Let's get the picture: First of all, what some of you still don't understand, even bright people, you still think in terms of kinematics, not dynamics, and this is typical. There are very few people— only by being pushed, do they ever get to dynamics. You're just not used to it. A former President doesn't really understand it, either, and they make mistakes.

All right, now what are we into? We saw a process last August, in which a lot of the American people went out to tell their Congress, "You — shut up! Now, listen: Here's what we want you to do for us, now you listen!" Okay, that process didn't end. It wasn't an "event": There was a process, where the American people were stirred up to the point, they were telling their representatives in the Congress, "You! Shut up. Listen —you're acting terribly. You're going to change now, aren't you? Here's what we want you to do, we want you to listen, and change your behavior."

Well, they didn't, did they? They still are playing the games, like the crazy thing — I mean, this idea of trying to push this health care through is a real piece of idiocy! Particularly at this stage.

Well, the process has gone on, since last August. It's undergone various transformations. Now, we're reaching the point that we're headed toward a breakdown. There's a breakdown crisis in process in Europe, there's a breakdown crisis in the Americas, there's a breakdown crisis inside the United States. We can not, at this point, assume, that unless we do what I will emphasize we must do, by the middle of January — no later — unless we do that, the United States will go down, and the world will go down, into a prolonged Dark Age. So people who have these ideas about step-by-step, the usual kinematic kind of thing, we'll do this, and then we'll do this, and then we'll do this — no! You won't do that.

What's going to have to happen, the first thing that's going to have to happen to do any damned good at all—any other measure's a waste of time—is to immediately install a transformation from a monetary system to a credit system. And this is done by the vehicle of a Glass-Steagall reform of the entire banking system. Which means that those parts of the banking system which do not conform to a Glass-Steagall standard are simply put aside; they don't count. And that would probably take a good deal of about $22-23 trillion worth of bailout money away—it would just fly away, a good deal of it. And then, we would turn around, on the same day virtually, and we would utter credit-system credit for large-scale programs. We would immediately install the Homeowners and Bank Protection Act of 2007, which should have been done then: because the housing crisis is very serious, right now, and there's no answer to it, except this.

First of all, you agree that you're going to change the U.S. system, from a monetary system, which it is now, to a credit system. And the credit system will conform to a Glass-Steagall standard for commercial banks. And we're concerned only about commercial banks, and also savings banks, of course; but, commercial banks. The Wall Street-type banks, they're on their own. If they can't meet up to the standard? That's it! We're going to write off trillions of dollars of phony-money debt, in order to save the world.

And this has to be done in the first weeks in January. This is the highest priority: This is emergency legislation, because if we don't do that, somewhere, maybe a little bit after the middle of January, or even possibly before, the whole system's coming down if we don't do it, beforehand.

So there's nothing else we're going to do, except this action, this leading action, and then other things follow. The leading action is: emergency legislation, Homeowners and Bank Protection Act of 2007, enacted now, as emergency legislation. Secondly, almost in the same breath, we apply the Glass-Steagall standard to commercial banks and to anything that is a bank that we're concerned about, and if it isn't, if it doesn't qualify to a Glass-Steagall standard — the claims, they don't exist. They don't exist as far as the banking system is concerned.

Now, the purpose of that combination is to stabilize the situation by a follow-up action, which means that the Federal government, now having gotten rid of some of these obligations — trillions of dollars of wasted obligations — now begins to authorize credit, which goes into work immediately, for the new form of CCC which I've proposed, and that kind of program, starting on basic economic infrastructure — large-scale national basic economic infrastructure — such as rail, continental rail systems, and maglev systems; power systems, especially nuclear power programs. Then, these programs, for nationwide projects of that type, will then be supplemented, by the contracts uttered to private enterprises for doing the supporting work that local firms would tend to do for these kinds of projects. The object is to get a couple of million people immediately employed — young people especially, but older people who have the skills, so that they will be part of the cadre force that helps to train the younger people who are getting jobs.

Now we need a CCC program type, because most of these young fellows out there, as you know, don't know what work is. They know what a job is. You show up every day and you get some money — or you show up mostly every day, and you get some money. Do you produce things? That's not the question! Showing up and getting money, that's the question. So there's a distinction between jobs and work in this case.

We're not offering jobs, we're offering work. Where relief is necessary for people who are poor, desperate and so forth, that's one thing. But we're not peddling jobs, we're peddling work. We're taking skilled people, who are already skilled, probably out of their jobs now, and putting them back to work, on these projects, either directly, on the national infrastructure programs, or working in firms which are subcontractors for the national projects. And that way, we get the economy moving immediately. We put this phony debt to one side.

Now, if we don't do this, and we have to figure that we have to have it done, by about the middle of January, if we don't do this, and if the United States goes down, then the whole world will go down, even including Russia, China, India and so forth, through a chain-reaction effect of the collapse of the world economy, the physical economy of the world. So therefore, it has to be done. This means, also, getting through this agreement, with Russia, China, India, with us, and possibly other nations that come in, particularly from that region of the world, in order to get started, on large-scale contracts internationally: All within a fixed-exchange-rate credit system, which is what Franklin Roosevelt had actually intended, if he had lived, instead of this temporary fixed-exchange-rate monetary system.

All right: That has to be done. And any other programs, or any so-called "intervening steps" — forget it! So, we're operating in dynamics.

Now, the other side of dynamics, apart from the fact we have to do it that way, is, what do we mean by dynamics? It means the same thing that is meant by Percy Shelley, especially in the final paragraph of his famous A Defence of Poetry: It means that since August, we've had a crucial point of development. People were out there, telling their Congressmen, "You do this. You do this. You do this." Now, they're not going to do that any more, they're going to say, "it's either going to happen, or you're out." They're not going to take it any more. And what happened in Copenhagen, is a reflection of this in two ways. First of all, the reason that the Copenhagen project failed, was because of dynamics.

And the key factor of the dynamics, of course, was the Russia-China agreement. The Russia-China agreement in October and the cooperation with India and other countries, in this direction, created a situation for China, where China would not — nor would India — capitulate, to the proposals coming out of London and Washington. They were not going to capitulate! And if they hadn't had that agreement in October, China might not have taken this so seriously. But because that agreement went through, and because it was extended to include cooperation with India and other nations, these nations were a solid bloc — Russia, China, India, and other nations, were a solid bloc, which was not going to capitulate to London, or to Obama. So, it was a shift in the process, which was a continuation of the dynamics expressed in August, by citizens who were enraged against their own representatives in Congress.

And you're now going through a new phase of that dynamics. You're going to a point, where there's going to be a real crisis, a social crisis, caused by a new wave of foreclosures, 1 to 2 million foreclosures, coming on fast. And also, at the same time, a breakdown in unemployment payments, to people who need to continue this support from the government to live. We also have the fact that we're having new categories, as I said, of people being thrown out of their homes, people who never would have thought of being evicted, until these conditions existed. So these things are coming up in December and January. If they're not attended to, in those months, you're going to have an explosion. And if you have the Obama Administration behaving as it behaved before, or if you have the members of the Congress behaving as they've behaved up to now, the United States is not going to survive, and the world is going to go down as a result of that.

So, the Congress is going to change its behavior! We're not going to push through a health-care bill, in order to try to get to other business: You won't get there! We're going to put this through now — forget the health-care bill! Kill it! And come in with the emergency legislation that I've indicated.

Then you can do something: But if you don't do that first, there's nothing you can do that'll do any good. You've got to reorganize the international financial-monetary system first, and you've got to take certain emergency measures to stabilize the social situation.

This means two things: You've got to bring the situation under control, the relationship between government and the people. That relationship is about to break down. And if the Federal government does not have the money, to bail out the unemployed, for the next month, you're going to have a social crisis in the United States: When that social crisis hits, everything else is going to go by the boards.

So, forget the health-care bill! Kill it! Forget it! You're an idiot if you get involved with it, right now. Just shut it off! Obama's going to go wild, he's going to be crazy. His Nero complex is going to come out in full bloom, and he's going in a phase very much like Nero, at the end-phase of Nero in his time. It's going to be nasty.

That is now about to happen! We're talking about the coming three weeks: The coming three weeks are already predetermined by dynamics. Don't think in terms of kinematic sequences, it's dynamics. It's the way the mind of the population as a whole, or a very large part of the population, is changed in the way it thinks. The population is undergoing changes, which they themselves do not understand — dynamics! And it's these changes — dynamics —which are going to shape the way the population behaves. You're looking at something like the French Revolution. You're looking at something like the siege of the Bastille, and things like that — which comes on suddenly!. And when it starts, it may mean there's nothing you can do about it. That's what you're in, now.

Don't assume that this is negotiation. Don't assume that this thing can be settled nicely. It's going to be settled my way, or it won't be settled. Not because I'm saying it won't be settled. But I'm saying it won't be settled, because it won't be settled! As a matter of fact. And people who disagree with me, just show they don't understand history.

We're now in that point in history, where you have no options, except to do the kinds of things I'm talking about. If you don't do the things I'm talking about, that kind of thing, then you're not going to succeed at all. And this nation is going to go. And if this United States goes, the whole planet will go. Don't kid yourself, there are not going be any survivors. If the United States goes under, the effect of the collapse of the United States will start a chain-reaction: The entire planet will collapse, into a Dark Age. And we have probably three weeks remaining — at best — for a safe estimate, of when what I've just indicated, has to be done, has to be done!

You will get help in that. Because the panic that's about to hit, around the Christmas tree, and between the Christmas tree and whatever it is you drink on January 1st and 2nd, you're going to see a big change. And you have to prepare to respond to that change appropriately, with big measures. And to force the government, to respond to a crisis which terrifies it, by the cold-blooded types of measures I'm proposing. If that isn't done, forget civilization.

When the crisis will hit — the middle of January, who knows? But you're getting, in the middle of January, to the point where you wouldn't want to take a chance. And that's where our policy has to lie. And the problem is, we have even most people do not understand dynamics. And therefore, their tendency would be, to make decisions and judgments which are contrary to reality. Because, now, dynamics is the direct determinant of behavior. And the measures I'm proposing are absolutely indispensable: Anything else, anything contrary, is a waste of time, just a waste of time.

So we're trying to educate the population rapidly, and we can do it. I can't guarantee we'll succeed, but we can do it. And that's the only thing worth doing. Nothing much else is worth doing: There are no other options for getting out of this mess alive.