Answers From LaRouche

Q: What would happen in an economic collapse?
                                   - from January 24, 2023 West Coast Cadre School

Question: Hello, Mr. LaRouche, My question is: What would happen in an economic collapse?

LaRouche: What would happen in an economic collapse? Absolute chaos! We're on the verge of it right now. You see the pattern of the collapse of industries and farms. For example, let's take California: You've got this Schwarzenegger. You've got a $15 billion estimated deficit in this year's budget. You have at least a $15 billion deficit or more in next year's budget. How is California going to deal with that? If you have Schwarzenegger, what are you going to get? You're going to get a more than $15 billion, actually $30 billion cut in expenditure of the state of California for essential services. What does that mean? What's the effect on the population? What's the total population of California? What is the effect on that population of a $30 billion cut, this year, in the budget of the state?

Now, look at other states of the United States, which are more or less in similar conditions, if not quite the same. Some worse, some better. What does it mean? What does it mean, if this happens in Europe, as it threatens to happen in Europe right now? They're all bankrupt over there, you know. Only a revival program, a recovery program, will save them. What about South America? What about Mexico? Mexico is totally bankrupt, hopelessly bankrupt. What about the entirety of South America? See what we've got? We are on the edge of a plunge into a new dark age. And look at the damn fools in the so-called Presidential debates, and see what they're talking about. They're not in the real universe.

So, therefore, what happens is, suddenly, these talking fools, as they drop by the wayside—Howard Dean probably jumps off a cliff someplace and tries to float up to heaven, or something—what do they do when reality hits, when the public has been saying, "Which of these candidates are we going to choose?" Or not choose. What happens at that time? You have a plunge into a new dark age of humanity, spreading throughout the planet.

So therefore, we have to win, because otherwise, look at 'em. Look at the candidates, look at the discussion, look at the opinions reflected by the mass media. Talk to people in the streets. What's on their minds? What would be the reaction to the equivalent of something worse than a $30 billion cut in the state budget of California, which is coming up now? You're looking at chaos.

Now, I as President can deal with that problem. I know how to deal with it. It's manageable, but it means overturning what most of these guys believe. That's the issue.

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