http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20210304-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf
“This is the most essential aspect of right. This is true freedom. Where this is denied there is no true freedom.” Lyndon LaRouche from the statement at the end of “A Note to Readers”
A Note To Readers
Drought, drought and more drought. That is the news this week. From the 20 year mega-drought now ongoing in the Colorado River basin, to the intensifying drought in California, just to highlight the big ones, the Western states are crying for relief.
I am delaying my report on the real, and only viable, solution to the water deficit in North American— the North American Water and Power Alliance– until next week in order to feature this week a report on the real physical economy.
That Feature is an article by my colleague Brian Lantz on the principles of the real physical economy, and the policy that must be the foundation for the direction of the Trump re-organized Republican Party, to make it a party of workers, producers and of Lincoln once again.
And to underline the ideas Brian presents, here is Lyndon LaRouche on the Meaning and Purpose of Economics: “This image of the sacredness of the individual, the importance of the individual's development of this divine spark, this creative reason; the opportunity of the individual to exercise that creative reason for the good of mankind, for the good of the family; the right of that individual to walk in respect, loving themselves and respected by others, because they in the short span of their mortal life are doing something which has a unique benefit, in some way, to present and future generations. The right to walk in pride and joy of life because one knows that is true. The right to walk in that joy and pride of life by means of a society which treasures that right of the individual to walk so, in such joy. “All of this depends inclusively upon economy. Not money economy, not paper money, not bookkeeping, not accounting, not finance, but on the right to improve nature by means of water management; by means of transportation systems such as rails; by means increased power production and generation and distribution; by means of sanitation; by means of health systems which take care of people; by means of educational systems; all of these things they call basic economic infrastructure. The right to improve the productive powers of labor by developing the minds of the individual to produce and to assimilate new scientific and technological discoveries. By means of whose transmission, the productive powers of labor are transformed upward such that the longevity of the individual is increased on the average; the ability to overcome disease is increased; the standards of living are enhanced; more leisure for the development of the human mind is made possible; and thus man himself is developed and rendered less imperfect and thus able to accomplish more and life made richer. This is the most essential aspect of right. This is true freedom. Where this is denied there is no true freedom.”
Also in this week’s report:
Mostly it is reporting on the California drought.
Also reported is the recent release of the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Report Card for America’s Infrastructure, which that organization publishes every four years. The report depicts the condition and performance of American infrastructure in the familiar form of a school report card—assigning letter grades based on the physical condition and needed investments for improvement. As the report from four years ago demonstrated, the U.S. infrastructure system is receiving a failing grade.
