Posted on 03/30/2007 5:25:50 AM PDT by Kitten Festival
Food Security: There's never a shortage of dictators to hurl abuse at the U.S. for its food policies. But they have no right to do it. Marxism, not freedom, is the world's foremost creator of hunger.
The blame-America-first crowd often zeroes in on U.S. plenty, calling our lack of want 'excess' and our great food productivity an ecological evil.
There's been a malevolent new wave of this lately as more news of failed Marxist regimes and the hunger they create comes out.
Another point in communism's favor: This Reuters photo of a neighborhood in central Havana came with a caption that read: 'Almost half a century of communist rule has saved Havana's eclectic architecture from the urban developer's bulldozer.' Cuba's communist dictator Fidel Castro on Thursday denounced the U.S.' production of grain ethanol as 'sinister' and a coming cause of ecological catastrophe and global starvation. Not only would it affect Cuba, which has rationed food since 1962, but 3 billion other people, he said.
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"Where is the international public scorn for the tyannical creators of hunger"
Creating hunger?
Fidel, may I suggest the obvious? Tell your buddy, Yugo Chavez, to reduce the price of his oil.
Or just buy your food from him instead of the US.
Drive 80 and starve a Marxist! Really, starvation is a tool of state control.
File under "why I love Texans !"
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