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President Donald Trump has been very clear that he is determined to turn (or return) America to the status of a Manufacturing Superpower. There is every reason to believe that he will pursue this goal aggressively in his second term. A convincing argument could be made that this is likely to be his overriding agenda of the next four years. It is certainly a necessity. Clearly, there is currently a great deal of discussion taking place, among a broad array of individuals, on precisely this orientation.
From this week’s Feature
A Note To Readers
With the La Nina now beginning to affect the weather and drought conditions becoming more intense, not only in the West, but throughout much of the nation, we have extensive coverage this week on the topic.
Next, perhaps at least partially answering the question of what will a second term of President Trump do, we may have at least an inkling of one element of that. The President this week established a “Water Sub-cabinet” to better coordinate the federal governments water policy and potentially enact a much more aggressive policy push in fulfilling his promise to rebuild and building anew the nation’s decrepit and inadequate water, transportation and energy generation infrastructure.
And California is ready as the next item from the California Farm Bureau presents a couple of long delayed major water infrastructure projects that must be built.
The real economy is not only a disaster, with most Americans below or near the official poverty level, but layoffs, and the non-payment of rents and mortgages and more are rapidly increasing.
Now look at the world on the eve of the critical U.S. Presidential election. Hunger and famine have already taken a toll this year of 7 million people who have died of starvation, principally in Africa, but in other areas as well. World Food Program director David Beasley, who along with the WPF, have just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize—and who, significantly, is a long-time close political ally of President Donald Trump—is warning that if immediate action is not taken to address the food problem, and the closely related COVID-19 pandemic, an additional 25-30 million people could also starve to death in the months ahead.
The Artemis Project of NASA to put American astronauts on the Moon in 2024 continues to move forward, and even with the present global disaster of the economy nuclear power is growing world-wide, led by China and scattered nations around the world. That is the reality even with Germany shutting down its entire nuclear industry.
The Feature this week: “The Economic Agenda To Make America Great Again.” As the introductory paragraphs read:
“Any effective approach in attempting to reverse the economic devastation of the last 30 years must begin with Physical Economy. What is required is to identify those initiatives and interventions which will produce an escalating increase in the productivity of the physical economy,—not increases in “monetary” productivity, but a sustained growth in what Alexander Hamilton defined as “Labor Power.”
“The problem today is that much of the well-intentioned discussion of rebuilding America’s manufacturing capabilities lacks scientific rigor. Physical Economy is a science. It is grounded in mankind’s increasing mastery over nature, through a series of inventions, discoveries and interventions over a span of millennia. Lyndon LaRouche’s 2002 paper provides the precise remedy to our current ills and the proper orientation toward what must be done.”
