I love beans, franks, and brown bread. Comfort food.
Posted on 01/31/2011 5:00:40 AM PST by NRG1973
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During Carters presidency the price of food went sky high. Damn democrats screw up everything they get their hands on. It took Reagan policy to open up the energy policy and get the price of food down...In fact, it took him over 2 years to turn things around...thats why he won the second presidency with 49 of the 50 state electoral votes..
There will always be Wagyu beef for someone.
Higher food prices? Oh, no. Does this mean there will be fewer super-obese staggering to the local cheap buffet preparing themselves for old age of diabetes treatments and joint problems? I know mooch-chelle, the worst lady, had her fat hands in this.
Beans are to cheap to grow yourself.
Folks this is Carter pt Deux, for those who do not recall the late 70’s we in the US are in line for yet more misery and the death of optimism.
And by coincidence the House and Senate passed and Obozo signed into law the FDA takeover of Food Production in the U.S. If you are hungry in the next few years don't blame a farmer, blame lying scheming POLs.
The "Green Revolution" (not the environmental but the plant breeding revolution) kept Parson Malthus's vision from hobbling the world. Now our POLs have done the opposite. The Global Grain Traders love it, and bought the results.
If you don't believe me how BAD this legislation is, do a little research on the history of HR2748/S.510/HR2751 You are forewarned, it is hard to trace some of the stages of this legislation because of how the House renamed existing bills a carrier. It originally passed the Senate in the Lame Duck Session by "voice vote". You do not hear a word about it in the press. This is one of the most underreported travesties that ever happened to this nation.....
Then logically we should immediately stop all farm subsidies paying corporations our tax dollars to ‘not’ grow food, right?
I love beans, franks, and brown bread. Comfort food.
It is frustrating when the conclusions are correct, but for a completely different set of reasons, proving once again that journalists are ignoramuses.
Ask agribusiness experts why food prices are expected to jump, while production declines, and weather will be far down the list. Truthfully, it is hard to tell what is the worse problem.
To start with, American agriculture has been hyper-productive since the end of the frontier. Even after the Dust Bowl wiped out tens of thousands of farms from Texas to Canada, those farmers outside that enormous region still produced so much food that there was massive deflation. Wheat was 25 cents a bushel, and farmers burned corn for fuel. While at the same time people were starving because the food couldn’t get to them, and nobody had money to buy it.
Then “Ol’ Frank” Roosevelt semi-nationalized food production, using a fascist economic model, and that has been where American agribusiness has expensively remained ever since, costing a vast amount of money to stabilize markets.
The most recent insanity out of Washington’s obsessive lust for hyper control of every dang thing is the stupid ethanol production, that wastes incredible amounts of corn, and congress refuses to even slow it down: Attn: Mr. Boehner! We need OIL, not alcohol.
Federal judges are destroying some of our most productive produce farmland in California, to preserve some nasty little fish of no great consequence by denying farmers the water they need for their crops.
There is a great system of petroleum based fertilizer slurry pipelines, that are relied on to transport vast quantities of fertilizer to our farms. They are strained to the limit and desperately need to be enlarged and upgraded. And they are also very sensitive to fluctuations in fuel prices.
The list goes on and on, much of which is *caused* by the US government’s obsessive control issues, but almost none of which has anything to do with the “Man Made Global Warming” fantasy.
Better start learning the art of couponing. I’ve been stretching my food dollars for years doing so. Food is not the only product rising fast, any cleaning or grooming product has gotten so expensive.
I bought 2 bottles of dawn dish soap for .49 @ a couple of weeks ago, but combining sale, kroger ecoupon and a manufacture coupons.
Coupons and flyers are the only thing the local fish wrapper are good for.
You could say they have an Agenda
That’s the goal they’re working towards.
Communism - where the very few at the top live high on the hog, and the rest of the people are mere slaves.
Communism - feudalism under another name.
Yes, now if we could hook you to a gas capture machine we could power a lawn mower. LOL
Yep, neo-feudalism.
When I was reading something to my daughter one night, quite a while back, called “Midieval Feast”,
it occurred to me that this is EXACTLY what the left is pushing for.
A few with total control of all resources, including the lives of the serfs, to use at their own leisure and whim.
Communism has that nasty little “quirk” of mass genocide about it as well.
An average automobile burning gasoline containing 10% ethanol removes as many calories from the food chain in a year as it would take to keep two people alive for that same year.
Better introduce her to the Coupon Whisperer, at least get your cleaning/grooming products cheaper.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2665444/posts
It is very RARE to see organic grown produce on sale.
Home grown is best. Learn to garden. We have a very small amount of available garden space, yet I get in 20 tom plants, green beans go behind the flowering bushes and along side the house. Blue berries are in pots, Blackberries climb up the side of the house. Strawberries are in what little back yard (hill) we have. Produces enough to feed 2 for the year, with plenty of toms left over to give to one of my neighbors having a hard time.
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