Posted on 11/27/2022 9:53:32 AM PST by grundle
Saw just a couple minutes of Kristi Noem on Bartiromo’s program today; China is buying up or leasing millions of acres of farm land AND fertilizer and food companies, amongst other things. THAT’S how you design a famine for us, the most, heretofore, productive land in the world.
Millions of acres? Not hardly. But a few hundred thousand acres is plenty to anxiously watch. A number of states ban foreign ownership of farmland.
The federal government tried to run a whorehouse, and it went out of business.
I’m not making this up.
That’s just it, government can do things when it wants to - provided it is actually possible. Therein lies the difference. The Manhattan Project, and the crewed Moon landings are examples.
That’s how the USDA food programs were run, prior to the 1990s. “Food Stamps”, and WIC. Flour, rice, cooking oil, pasta, vegetables, etc.
The problem with issuing commodities, there emerged a large and ready market for selling the goods for cash, usually about 10 cents on the dollar. The cash was used to buy booze, drugs, cigarettes, whatever wasn’t allowed.
The quacks in academia lobbied to have direct (more or less) cash payments and allow those getting “benefits” to purchase whatever they want. They reasoned that it was “degrading” for people on relief and other pseudo-intellectual twaddle.
The inflationary pricing effect of billions going out every month are staggering, firms like WalMart love it. Congress built in a 25% increase in “food stamp benefits” just recently in response to the latest bout of monetary inflation.
You’re right; all foreign investments equals 30,000,000 acres, not just China. I couldn’t find data on how much is leased, though.
https://www.technocracy.news/foreigners-own-30-million-acres-of-prime-u-s-farmland/
Of course, it's not as if the gov't or some leftwing NGO won't cut off your food supply, free speech, freedom to assemble, bank accounts, IRAs, or employment if your social credit score or social media posts don't meet their requirements.
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