I don't know for which branch of the central government you toil, I would imagine some cabinet post underling. It is most telling when you refer to posters on FR as 'you people.'
Entitled to cheap food? Hardly.
Many of us here believe the villain to be your precious ethanol when we know that just over a year ago we paid $.89 for a dozen eggs. Now the price is 1.99. I cite that as one example, there are many, many others.
When I tour U. S. farm belts and see field after field planted in corn, where before there was wheat, along with other dissimilar crops, and then talk to farmers I get the idea that those crops are earmarked for the gas tank.
I see that more corn is being grown in gulf states. Our fishing areas there have been contaminated by the affluence associated with chemicals used solely in the growing of corn. There are large areas that have been contaminated to the extent that they are official 'dead' zones. Our gulf fishing business have been decimated with employment in this industry being reduced by 70%.
Don't throw that old 'hedge fund' canard at us, because that's what the bureaucrats in Washington are dishing up, and like global warming, they are calling the contrived data 'facts.'
I don’t see any urban dwellers contributing to fat pension funds for the farmers. For farmers their pension is the bankrupt social security pension. Yet it is ok for the farmer to buy that truck or tractor and contribute to those pension funds and perks like health insurance etc for the city folk.
And the city folk have the audacity to complain about food prices going up 5% while the price of that truck went up 10%? They price themselves out of a job and want farmers to bail them out when they make the smallest portion of the food dollar? It’s about time for you urban dwellers to send some of your union wages back to the people who provide you with your basic food. You are pretty fat and lazy so obviously you have plenty to eat. If food is costing too much try laying off the potato chips and snack crackers and try preparing real healthy meals rather than tv dinners.
“talk to farmers I get the idea that those crops are earmarked for the gas tank”
Crops are earmarked to the highest bidder. You are free to make a bid if you don’t like who they sell to.