LaRouche sobre la reunión en Oklahoma:"Fue una manifestación electoral para Bloomberg"

January 7, 2008 (LPAC)--Lyndon LaRouche characterized this morning's meeting at the University of Oklahoma, co-chaired by former U.S. Senators Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) and David Boren (D-Okla.) as nothing but an election rally for New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's mooted independent presidential candidacy. A New York Post reporter on the scene said that he had it from Bloomberg's people said that Bloomberg won't run if Obama continues to do well. To this, LaRouche said that this confirms his view that Obama is being built up to be chopped down in order to clear the way for the Bloomberg candidacy.

Boren, Nunn and the other fifteen prominent political figures that participated in the meeting, including Bloomberg, came out of the meeting at the University of Oklahoma preaching platitudes about the necessity for bipartisanship in American politics but said very little of substance. The highly rigged public event was, as EIR reporter Harley Schlanger characterized it, a sham and Civics 101. Instead of addressing the real crisis of the collapsing financial system, they called for war on the general welfare of Americans with Concord Coalition-style rhetoric about budget slashing, including comments by Boren that within ten years, Social Security and Medicare will consume all of the Federal government's tax revenues. Statements of this sort are usually code phrases for imposing vicious austerity on that segment of the population.

Lyndon LaRouche, upon being briefed on these remarks, said "They ought to take the blame for the consequences of the Nixon, Ford and Carter presidencies. These problems were caused by changes in policy made especially under the Nixon and Carter administrations, the breakup of the Bretton Woods system, and the Trilateral Commission program. If you want to do something, admit that you made a mistake and reverse those mistakes, reverse globalization and end the global warming crap." LaRouche noted that what they came out with is so much bullshit. "There's not a cow in sight. How the hell did they produce so much bullshit?" he asked.

Neither Boren, nor any of the other members of the panel mentioned the collapse of the financial system, nor did any of them even note the foreclosure crisis. "They all know it," LaRouche said. "The whole financial system is collapsing. It's global, not just the U.S. It was put in place between 1970 and 1981, continued after 1987 and carried to an extreme under George W. Bush and what we have to do is undo these things. The voters made a mistake. They voted for these jerks."

About 50 people attending the event received copies of LaRouche's banking crash statement and the HBPA. Four members of the panel also received packages of literature on the financial crash and what to do about it.