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To: nomorelurker
Prices of what will decline below the cost of production?

Staple food crops.

No they will not. We all have to eat it's real simple get it.

Do you understand the term "surplus"???

surplus = MORE than what we can eat.

During seasons with favorable growing conditions, farmers produce a surplus which drives the market price of their crops BELOW the cost of production. This forces many farmers OUT of business.

if there is a shortage guess what they will make more money:

Yes, prices skyrocket during shortages.
And people who cannot afford those prices go hungry.
Others may not go hungry, but they'll scream bloody murder about food prices and toss all the jack@$$ politicians out of office.

79 posted on 08/09/2005 7:53:12 PM PDT by Willie Green (Some people march to a different drummer - and some people polka)
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To: Willie Green
I understand the term surplus you do not. Food in this land will not be in short supply. A great land able to produce food in abundance. You postulate riots because someone cannot get McNuggets thats different from starving. Market forces will not cause starvation or riots here. Misguided government polices will cause riots however.
82 posted on 08/09/2005 8:26:40 PM PDT by nomorelurker (wetraginhell)
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