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To: E. Pluribus Unum
What actually happens with food shortages and price hikes is that the peasants usually kill their government. The French revolution was more about bread than brotherhood.

/johnny

8 posted on 04/20/2014 12:24:24 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper
What actually happens with food shortages and price hikes is that the peasants usually kill their government.

Exactly. That has been the motivation behind the last 60 years of so called farm programs.

They were designed, very cleverly, to keep US food prices down. The programs have been very successful.

52 posted on 04/20/2014 2:43:36 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Want to keep your doctor? Remove your Democrat Senator.)
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