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>>>>Surplus U.S. food supplies dry up<<<<

>>>Others experts say large government stockpiles are not only unnecessary, they are counterproductive. That includes John Block who, as President Reagan’s Agriculture secretary during the 1980s, went to enormous lengths to get rid of extra food: giving commodities to farmers as payment for idling land, offering surplus grain as a subsidy to exporters and holding cheese giveaways for the poor.

“We shouldn’t have large reserves stacked up. It was very costly for us,” Block said, noting that for years he was accused by other nations of depressing their farm sectors by dumping extra U.S. food on world markets.<<<

>>>>The USDA’s sole remaining sizable stockpile contains about 24 million bushels of wheat in a special government trust dedicated to international humanitarian aid. The special food program, which also holds $117 million in cash, has dwindled from its original 147-million-bushel level as Republican and Democratic administrations have used it but not fully replenished it.<<<<

>>>>Congress, so far, has responded to the growing food crisis by proposing a major increase in nutrition funding in a five-year farm bill now under debate. Lawmakers and the White House are also prepared to spend more money for international programs. The U.S. in the last year provided more than $2 billion in foreign food aid.<<<<

So what is the solution that our knowledgeable elected officials suggest?

They are setting aside billions of dollars to buy commodities if they are needed in times of a food disaster.... Whaaaat? When there is a shortage of wheat we are going to say - ‘Uh, we have money to buy some more.’ From whom? From Where? For Whom? Maybe we should put our elected officials on a currency diet.... Let them eat money - no MAKE them eat nothing but money..... Hmmmm that wouldn’t work, there is enough cocaine on today’s money that they would probably be high all the time.

Geeeesh... gotta grow my own and protect it myself!!!