There is a widespread misconception that the automobile industry in the United States is now in the throes of collapse because there is too much manufacturing capacity for the number of cars people can buy, and that there is nothing else that can be done with the auto industry's factories and machine-tool shops. Nothing could be further from the auto industry's own history. Today, when dozens of manufacturing plants are being shuttered, and tens of thousands of skilled auto and machine-tool workers are losing their jobs, this manufacturing capacity, which is a national economic asset, must be converted to produce rail, advanced mass transit, energy, and other infrastructure systems, as Lyndon LaRouche has proposed. It has been done in the past. It must be done now.
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