President Donald Trump will hold a three-hour “vaccine summit” at the White House Dec. 8 to increase confidence in the new vaccines among the American public. Bloomberg reported that the President is scheduled to introduce discussions of how the vaccines were developed and how they’ll be regulated, distributed, and administered. He will sign an order to the Department of Homeland Security to give priority to Americans and then help other countries. Moreover he will assign the Export-Import Bank and the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) to support the delivery and distribution of vaccines in other nations in 2021.
The President will be advancing one of his strongest and scientifically most significant achievements on the same day the electoral college may — absent Supreme Court intervention or initiatives from state legislatures — get fixed against him. “Operation Warp Speed,” which developed the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, was a true scientific crash program which rapidly and successfully achieved a breakthrough in messenger RNA or mRNA technology which had never before been used to create any vaccine, let alone one as urgently needed as against COVID-19. “Vaccine Day” serves to remind forcefully that Donald Trump is still the U.S. President, still capable of acting with the unique powers of the American Presidency to better the nation and, in extraordinary situations, the world.
The day opens a much broader field for action — action which must be taken very soon, and which the American people should support with all their passion. Not only vaccines, but food, and the modern technologies of growing it, urgently must be sent abroad from the United States. The President’s friend and appointee at the head of the World Food Program these past three years, Gov. David Beasley of South Carolina, is warning like a Jeremiah, day after day, that now an inconceivable 270 million people are “marching toward starvation.” Why? The COVID pandemic has put border closings and lockdowns on top of uninvested, unmechanized agriculture and caused outright famine in the African Sahel region and Southwest Asia. Even though Trump’s United States has led the world in funding the World Food Program, it is still coming up short and losing lives.
Schiller Institute President Helga Zepp-LaRouche tweeted today: “President Trump, listen to David Beasley of the World Food Program on Yemen: Emergency Food Delivery, needed to stop mass starvation, can be a bridge for peace.”
The very institutions President Trump named to support sending vaccines abroad — the Ex-Im Bank and the DFC — can provide credit to send American farmers’ food and technology, even a few of the farmers themselves — to rescue humanity. But their credit capacity is not enough; two other things must follow quickly. Nationalize the Federal Reserve and have it act as a national bank to provide a large volume of credit for the most important productive projects here and abroad. And cooperate with other major nations, especially China, whose commercial banks can provide a great deal of funding for such projects.
The President can have a bigger, true summit, a vaccine and food summit of major nations which can lead to international agreements for credit for human and economic progress. Make Americans proud, and let those who thought to vote for Sleepy Joe Biden rue their mistake.
