Food Price Inflation Scares The Fed

American Thinker ^ | 03/14/2014 | Chriss Street

[expat2]

Yes, you are correct — it doesn’t have to be urban, but I added my caution because many might think that way. I myself live on the edge of exurbia, with cattle grazing nearby, but in easy bicycle reach of all that I need (except the public library).

[Balding_Eagle]

For decades the government, using the ‘Cheap Food for the Public’( often called the Farm Program) paid farmer not to plant all of the acres they could.

Freepers complained long and loud, mocking the programs.

When ethanol came along and farmers could make more money by not enrolling in the ‘set aside’ programs I began warning Freepers that they wouldn’t like the results.

Now farmers were are no longer slaves to the government who had chosen cheap food for voters at the expense of farmers for more than 60 years.

It’s not coincidence that high food prices come along with financial freedom for farmers.

A choice has been made; we got rid of cheap food, government farm subsidies, and poor farmers. Now we have higher priced food with much less government involvement and financially free farmers.

Each Freeper can decide for themselves, was it more fun to mock farmers for being paid not to grow crops, or is it more fun to complain about high food prices?

[ncpatriot]

I live in rural area but all of my neighbors could car pool!