Rachel Brown: "Instead of Casinos, Build Nawapa"

Rachel Brown, candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for Congress in the 4th District of Massachusetts, issued a statement endorsing the immediate launching of the North American Water and Power Alliance (NAWAPA) project today. Taking up the question of "jobs," to which most Democrats pay lip service, Brown contrasted the jobs that would created by building casinos, to the future that would be created for the nation by creating jobs building the massive water project which NAWAPA represents.

"The immediate construction of the North American Water and Power Alliance (NAWAPA), an on-the-shelf project designed in the 1960's, would create jobs immediately in the present, while also providing a vast increase in water supply and energy production for the future," Brown said. "Additionally, this project would enhance soil quality, open up canal routes across the continent, and cleanse polluted areas, like the Great Lakes."

In effect, Brown argued, NAWAPA will allow us to "green the deserts" through bringing water into the western deserts, and transforming the region and weather by turning the sun's energy into abundant green plants.

"Those who push things like casinos, are still living in a world dominated by money. This approach to economics is what has created the collapse, and that world is already dead. We need a higher approach, what economist Lyndon LaRouche calls physical economy."

"A project of this scale will demonstrate what it takes to create, and what the results are, of a physical transformation of a given environment, comparable to what we will be necessary to make Mars habitable."

"Let's think big! Merely attempting to make ends meet is not enough, the entire physical economy has been destroyed under several decades of monetarism and globalization. We must increase our productive powers, in order to address a diminishing resource base, a collapsed infrastructure system, and a growing population. Building NAWAPA will allow us to survive in the present, but it will also allow us to improve the future, and make our time here on the planet worthwhile."