I Thought Corn Was For Eating?

Next to turning oil into polyester so we could make clothing from it, turning food into fuel is about the dumbest thing I have personally experienced. What is really amazing is that the boys and girls in Washington, DC finally have the handle on it and are talking about rethinking the whole ethanol thing. It seems that making corn into fuel as well as the high petroleum prices may have caused a food shortage and price spikes around the world causing a lot of little munchkins and their moms and dads to literally eat dirt pies held together with butter and flavored with salt. I can hardly wait to sit down to a meal of dirt pies. Think it's not possible here? Remember you didn't think it was possible to have oil at $120 a barrel and gasoline at $3.65 a gallon headed only one direction, UP.
Can we find the source of this problem? Is it the blood for oil crowd currently in the White House? I think not. Keep in mind that we have the ability to stand off shore and take all of the oil in the Middle East any time we want to do that.
I would put the blame on the little, mean Greens. Those charming folks like to call themselves environmentalists and believe that we should all commit suicide because that would save the earth. Don't misunderstand, I believe in the charge that we are to be good stewards of the planet. No need to toss garbage all over the place. No need to pollute the land or water. But when you want to put me back into a tepee and you want to hinder technological development, then we have a problem.
Prior to leaving as Secretary of HUD, Jack Kemp noted that all the government regulations on housing had caused a 77% rise in the price of housing. This is what centralized government, also know as BIG BROTHER, does for you. And this is what is wrong with government today. We the people have allowed the government that we are suppose to control to come into our lives under the pretext of doing something good for us only to have it all go bad. Listen to the candidates. Hillary Clinton told the folks in Indiana today to put her into office so that she can wake up and think about us. Lord please help us. Problem is all of the candidates are just like her including John McCain.
As a nation and under our government we are suppose to protect minority opinions. We do that because on any given day we can find ourselves speaking forth on a minority opinion. What we don't do is protect the minority at the expense of the majority and if we do not move quickly, well those little cardigan sweaters will simply not be enough to protect us in the winter but none of us will have a weight problem because we will all be walking. Are you up for the trek to stop these fools and liars in their tracks? You are the government now let's take our country out of the hands of the professional politicians and put it into the hands of the people who have been decreed to be the ones in charge.

Sam's Club and Rice

I want all of you to realize that this entry is a direct result of a news story declaring that Sam's Club, and certainly it is only a matter of time before other grocers join in, has rationed rice that comes in 20lb. bags. Someone, I presume at Sam's or maybe the evil Wal-Mart, has come to the conclusion that folks buying rice in large quantities are hoarding and trying to escape the escalating price of food. God forbid you should decide to take care of you and yours. There was a time when this would have been considered frugal behavior. Indeed, it is my understanding that those who belong to the Mormon religion ask their members to keep a couple years of food on hand in case of hard times.

Rationing is something we usually associate with shortages. If we do have a rice/food shortage we must ask why. Let me give you two words, government subsidies. We have been subsidizing American farmers for one reason or another ever since the depression. We are at it again in that we are subsidizing them to grow corn so that we can turn it into ethanol and burn it. I thought it was dumb to use petroleum to make polyester and plastic and wear it. This ethanol thing is one of the stupidest things we have ever done. Why are we doing this? We are engaged in the War on Global Warming or Climate Change, the latest war in the strategy of the Progressives.

Government officials would tell you that we subsidize agriculture because we want to save the small farmer. I would suggest that the small farmer disappeared with the Romans. What we are really doing is subsidizing Big Farming and bad agricultural practices.

In reality we probably have too many farmers in the country who continue to do the same things they have been doing since World War I. They grow crops. If the farmers in an area have a good crop that year in that region they all have a good year. Price for the crop in a surplus year will go down because there is too much product. In a bad year all the farmers will be low on product but price will be up. Unfortunately the farmers will not have a lot to sell. Costs, meanwhile, continue to go up for equipment and those fluids needed to run that equipment. Right now there are farmers growing corn for ethanol and they are not making money because the price of gasoline and diesel is through the roof. Meanwhile commodity prices are going crazy and the speculators have pushed those prices through the roof. Do the farmers consider growing something other then corn or whatever the major crop is for their region. Seldom do they do this. I live in Pennsylvania. My wife and I have put in a garden this year. Summer and winter squash, tomatoes, peas, carrots, radishes, zucchini, lettuce, cauliflower, broccoli, are but a few things in our garden. Farmers' fields will be full of corn, soybeans, and hay. Talk about your diversity and forward thinking.

Are we really looking at a food shortage? Are food prices going to make gas prices look like a good deal? Are we going to continue to allow the hoax of Climate Change? Isn't Al Gore's green hedge fund enough proof of what this is all about? Are you going to let them buffalo you on the ethanol matter, a fuel that requires 100 gallons of petroleum to make 90 gallons of ethanol a fuel that will give us lower mileage per gallon and is dirtier then what we have?

We subsidize farmers and the price of food goes up. We subsidize oil companies and they don't drill for oil or build refineries. We subsidize schools and test scores go down. We subsidize colleges and the cost goes up as the money goes to the likes of Ward Churchill. Without subsidies Ward Churchill would not be a professor and Colorado University would not be there. Can you find the common key here? Keep in mind that it is today's Progressives, Clinton, Obama, Pelosi, Reed, and indeed compassionate Bush, are up to their eyeballs in this. Take a close look at the picture on this entry, it is cat food. Is it the meal of the future for you and me