Posted on 04/30/2022 3:08:40 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
n America, the availability of everyday goods such as groceries and gasoline is generally a given. Even in 2020, amid the fallout of a pandemic, well-documented shortages were relatively short-lived. But as the economy recovered heading into 2021, the shift in Washington toward Democratic policies may now make hunger pangs familiar in a way unseen since the Great Depression.
While America is the world’s breadbasket, reliance on Russian and Ukrainian wheat, barley, fertilizer, and, most of all, energy has made every mouthful cost more, as have increased regulations and taxes on our farmers here at home. Russia and Ukraine produce 25% of the world’s wheat, and Russia exports 20% of the world’s natural gas supply, both vital to the food supply chain. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion has disrupted these exports and left the world in a precarious position.
A recent article in Parade listed basically every food as at risk of being in short supply in 2022, from eggs and dairy to produce and meat, but then laughably blamed climate change as one of the key causes. Particularly since shortages will be felt most by the more than 10% of Americans who are food insecure, President Joe Biden should be working to avert this looming crisis. Instead, he shrugs and says, "With regard to food shortage, it's going to be real," and then plays the solutionless blame game.
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Who says he wants to avert a famine? Seems to me he’s counting on creating one. (For whatever reason.)
As if it’s not on purpose.
Ain’t gonna happen.
Agreed. The party that forced nursing homes to take in covid patients have shown they’re about removing the expendable people.
They showed that long ago when they supported slavery, eugenics, and concentration camps. Nothing has changed.
Would you have a link to the original story? I can’t reach msn.com. Thanks!
Soon, any complaints about hunger will be investigated as misinformation by the Department of Homeland Security.
Everybody needs to get their minds set right.
25% is not a correct number. 25 percent refers to worldwide wheat EXPORTS, not total amount of wheat actually grown. The real amount is around 0.9%, though I’ve seen some sources say 9% (a big difference, but don’t have the time right now to figure out which is which).
Either way, what I can say for sure is that a large amount of this wheat export/growth, due to market forces, is already shifting to other countries like India as well as the USA.
There might be inflation from this while the market works itself out, but we were already on the road to hyperinflation due to spending and Covid19 policies. The Whitehouse may attempt to blame it all on Ukraine/Russia, but this is fake news.
Biden will “change course” to avoid walking into a wall. Anything else is too difficult for him.
From the full article
“Unless we get back to putting the needs of the public ahead of the needs of activists on their Twitter feeds, we will be coping with the consequences of Biden’s reckless policies for years to come.”
That is America’s real problem. “Activists”, we need to clamp down on them hard.
Biden’s puppet master wants to punish Americans
You have 1000 deer in an area that has enough food for 1000 they all live happily.
You have 1000 deer in an area, but there's only enough food for 750. How many deer survive?
If you said 750 then Bzzzzt, you are wrong. The correct answer is 0, they all starve.
You have 1000 deer in an area, but there's only enough food for 910. How many deer survive?
Again, The correct answer is 0, they all starve.
If you have 1000 in an area but food for 990 how many.....
Point being, once you go below the threshold of what's needed for everyone, be it 75%, 25%, 9% or 0.9% it doesn't matter, everyone is screwed. Though the difference is humans are smarter & more ruthless than deer and will take out their fellow man.
Wrong. They are promoting the false narrative that it is all Putin's fault. It is not.
We were energy independent under President Trump. With that dementia-addled puppet Biden installed, we are no-longer energy independent. It is not Putin's fault, it is the result of the policies currently in place in the US.
We do not need food from Ukraine. Last year the US exported 10x the amount of wheat it imported.
If you want to know why things cost more - two reasons. One, the government is printing and spending money like mad, leading to inflation. Two, the government's policies have resulted in a rapid and significant rise in energy costs. It takes energy to produce and ship anything - so the cost of everything goes up. This isn't rocket science, this is econ 101.
If the source is MSN on this, and I’ve seen several other “prep for food shortage” articles from other dubious sources, then I would actually say that YES, we should be prepared for this pre-planned food shortage being engineered by the shadow US govt.
all of this covid stuff has been a prep course for the real smackdown about ready to hit America....the toilet paper craze back in March 2020 was just a prep-run.
once people have no food, then all bets are off......
Part of the Great Democrat Reset. As stated just part of the grand plan.
Bingo. Planned famine.
Hmmm... Could THIS be part and parcel to the plans for the upcoming election? Food shortages, martial law, election suspended, or some other type of shenanigans.
Either that, of they plan to get things in a bad shape, lose, and then with their pals in the MSM, blame it ALL on the right. “Everything was just DANDY when the left had control of congress. Now they’ve lost it, and it’s ALL the right’s fault!”.
Stopped at my local WalMart here in north Texas for a dozen eggs. They were priced at $3.10 for a dozen. I can’t remember paying more then about $1.50 for them until today. I am still getting over the shock!
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