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    StillUnashamed1 year, 6 months ago
    
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    This isn't a political issue yet you seem bent on making it one. I've read the article and have just started reading the comments. I'm sure it will not take long to get to where someone will say it's all Bush's fault, aided by the scum-bag Republicans and ignorant conservatives.
    
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      StillUnashamed1 year, 6 months ago
      
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      Well, I've read the comments now. Not as much Bush bashing as I expected.
      
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        ETproductions1 year, 6 months ago
        
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        OK, I will have a go at it for you. Rice and wheat prices have skyrocketed in the past year. Do you really believe that is because the people of China and India are suddenly eating twice as much rice as they did a year ago?
        There is no food shortage. There is a dollar overabundance. The flood of money the FED has been printing to prop up the economy here has seriously rattled the world wide house of cards.
        Blame that on Bush? No. First, he doesn't control the FED and second, if he read my comment he'd have no idea what to make of it. I blame the American people for constantly voting for tax "cuts" that really amounted to debt increases. Our debt has reached the point where it requires a constant string of magic acts by the FED to stave off a worldwide crash the likes of 1929.
        So yeah, stockpile food. And vote for John McCain because his tax "cuts" will add another trillion dollars a year to the $10 trillion Bush will leave.
        And have a nice day. :)
        
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  Beau78901 year, 6 months ago
  
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  What is wrong with you?
  Can't you see a single article, or a single issue, in terms of its facts, assertions and conclusions WITHOUT trying to pigeonhole it as Democratic or Republican, conservative or liberal?
  Jeez. Think for yourself for a change.
  Or are you THAT far entrenched in the conservative ideology of the past 30 years that you MUST politicize EVERY issue at all times? No wonder you see nothing wrong with the politicization of the Justice Department, all of the consumer safety agencies, with Karl Rove giving PowerPoint presentations about prioritization of partisanship to every cabinet department?
  
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      quackpot1 year, 6 months ago
      
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      WHEW - now care to comment on the article?
      
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      Beau78901 year, 6 months ago
      
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      Dude, get a grip.
      That wasn't my story. I didn't write it, and I didn't post it. You didn't see me comment on it either as you said.
      We are individuals. Do you understand the concept? Not all liberals are the same, and not all conservatives are.
      And that's the point. Stop making everything about left and right, liberal and conservative, good and evil.
      Your president did that to the GOVERNMENT, and much of the public has now internalized that idea. That's not what the founders had in mind.
      
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    mesodude1 year, 6 months ago
    
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    I agree with you but as I say below, I'm finding this crisis a bit hard to swallow (no pun intended). Not saying there's no there there. Just saying it sure seems orchestrated (not unlike the run up to the war).
    
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      nostalgia1 year, 6 months ago
      
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      Watch the BBC and read the foreign press. They have been reporting on this for some time
      We have been too busy watching politicians making fools of themselves
      
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  Grrr1 year, 6 months ago
  
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  Fear-mongering stopped being a CON tactic when?
  
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    saintetienne1 year, 6 months ago
    
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    "Fear-mongering stopped being a CON tactic when?"
    About the time Al Gore preached his doom and gloom hooey about Glo-bull Warming.
    
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      Grrr1 year, 6 months ago
      
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      That's not fear mongering, it's reality. There IS a difference, although I admit that's a lost cause for you not just most of the time.
      
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  mesodude1 year, 6 months ago
  
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  It's funny you should say that because I'm warily assessing this rising chorus of Chicken Little stories in the media about escalating food prices and mass starvation--especially the ones that suggest that ethanol production is entirely to blame. It's amazing that this all apparently happened overnight and came with no warning (unlike Hurricane Katrina). And it also seems a little too convenient that gas prices continue to soar at the same time there is this sudden overnight food shortage.
  
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    nostalgia1 year, 6 months ago
    
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    It hasn't happened overnight
    We are just starting to hear about it. Our press has been too busy chasing politicians all over the country
    
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      mesodude1 year, 6 months ago
      
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      "We are just starting to hear about it. Our press has been too busy chasing politicians all over the country"
      ---I don't see how that's changed.
      
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        nostalgia1 year, 6 months ago
        
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        Our press tends to ignore what is happening overseas to a large extent
        Have you heard about the rice shortage in the Philippines?
        How about the drought in Australia and how it has impacted food supplies?
        Or Zimbabwe where commercial agriculture which was the backbone of the economy lies in ruins. From being a food exporter, Zimbabwe now would starve without UN famine relief
        The riots in Egypt where thousands of people have resorted to violence due to shortages of basic food commodities and rising food prices?
        Our press did report on Haiti but the rest has been largely ignored
        
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        Jaydee401 year, 6 months ago
        
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        Another point hidden from Americans is that the standards of living have jumped in almost every country but the US which means more competition for world stores of food.
        
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        blowback1 year, 6 months ago
        
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        During the Industrial Revolution, standards
        of living increased by 50% over the course of
        a lifetime.
        In China today, the increase is 10,000%.
        But it's not food production's inability to
        keep up with increased demand that's the
        problem.
        It's food prices.
        Cargill, our largest agricultural company,
        during this crisis, has achieved an 86% profit
        increase.
        http://www.twincities.com/allheadlines/ci_8919283
        Regardless of such greed, contributing factors
        would include the price of oil and the devaluing
        dollar.
        It's not only households that are stockpiling.
        It's nations too.
        But there's something very suspect about one of
        the world's largest food producers reaping an
        increased profit of 86% during a global food
        crisis where some prices have gone up,
        coincidentally, by as much as approx. 86%.
        
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    PainGoddess1 year, 6 months ago
    
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    The new Clorox GREEN products are primarily Ethanol...HMMM How much of corn is going into other things that were thought up during the glut of the nineties? Maybe we should NOT have HF CORN SYRUP in everything and quit making throwaway dishes out of corn. Its not all going into the tank. Same for oil...there was a glut and now there are literally thousands of items that we could do without that are made of crude. Plastic bags and bottles being a couple.The morons bidding on the oil FUTURES need to calm down every time somebody sneezes in the middle east. Besides we get ours primarily from Canada and Mexico. So why the high prices??
    
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  jordan111 year, 6 months ago
  
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  oops. gave you a pos. my apologies.
  
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