Posted on 04/25/2022 6:49:19 AM PDT by Kaslin
After one-third of the horrific term of resident Joe Biden is almost complete, the United States of America is facing a series of mind-boggling crises.
The Biden administration’s COVID-19 response focused on forcing Americans to wear masks and take vaccines. The President pushed mandates and lockdowns, instead of freedom. The toll on our economy, overall health and psychological well-being has been staggering.
This week, in their commitment to continue these policies, the administration refused to abandon the unnecessary and ridiculous mask mandate for public transportation and will appeal a federal judge’s sensible ruling striking down this unpopular mandate.
There is an unprecedented crisis on our southern border as an invasion of illegal immigrants continues to pour into our country. This is leading to a massive increase in illegal drugs, which is contributing to a record number of drug overdose deaths.
Fueled by a rise in illegal drugs, illegal immigrants and “woke” prosecutors in urban areas, violent crime is skyrocketing in America. Our police officers are overwhelmed, underpaid, and constantly disrespected by progressive Democrats who blame them for the dangerous conditions instead of the real culprits, the violent criminals.
Americans are facing a plethora of economic troubles as huge debt, reckless spending and the targeting of our energy industry contributed to record gasoline prices and devastating inflation levels. The wages of workers are not keeping pace with the high inflation rates, so Americans are falling further behind economically.
To combat inflation, interest rates are increasing, which will make home buying more difficult and cause problems for our real estate industry.
While all these problems are truly dreadful, the scariest issue that will soon be facing Americans is an unfamiliar situation in the wealthiest country on earth, a food shortage. The last time the United States faced a real food shortage was during the Great Depression of the 1930s. At that time, there were “hunger marches” as millions of Americans were impacted by food shortages made worse by a severe drought in the Great Plains.
While we face nothing like that situation today, there are disturbing signs of trouble ahead. Already, Americans are noticing many shelves to be empty at local grocery stores.
The war in Ukraine has made a dire situation much worse. Both Russia and Ukraine are major exporters of food, such as wheat. In Ukraine, many farms have been destroyed during the war and able-bodied farmers are fighting on the front lines instead of tending to their fields.
To combat inflation, interest rates are increasing, which will make home buying more difficult and cause problems for our real estate industry.
While all these problems are truly dreadful, the scariest issue that will soon be facing Americans is an unfamiliar situation in the wealthiest country on earth, a food shortage. The last time the United States faced a real food shortage was during the Great Depression of the 1930s. At that time, there were “hunger marches” as millions of Americans were impacted by food shortages made worse by a severe drought in the Great Plains.
While we face nothing like that situation today, there are disturbing signs of trouble ahead. Already, Americans are noticing many shelves to be empty at local grocery stores.
The war in Ukraine has made a dire situation much worse. Both Russia and Ukraine are major exporters of food, such as wheat. In Ukraine, many farms have been destroyed during the war and able-bodied farmers are fighting on the front lines instead of tending to their fields.
The result was predictable, as global food prices soared 12% in the first few weeks of the war. The Executive Director of the World Food Program, David Beasley, called the escalating food shortages caused by the war a “catastrophe on top of catastrophe.” Even resident Biden admitted that the war in Ukraine will lead to “real” food shortages in the days ahead.
To make matters worse, there have been a series of unusual accidents at food processing plants and warehouses in recent months. There have been fires, unexplained accidents and even a deadly plane crash, which occurred Thursday, at a General Mills plant in Covington, Georgia. Sadly, two people were killed and there was considerable damage at the plant with numerous trailers being destroyed.
The plane crash occurred just two days after a fire destroyed the headquarters of Azure Standard, the nation’s largest manufacturer of organic and healthy food, in Dufur, Oregon.
With almost two dozen incidents in the last year, it is hard to imagine these events at similar facilities being purely coincidental. Regardless, the Biden administration has no answer to this dilemma. In fact, recent actions will make the situation even worse.
On April 14, Biden announced that a gasoline blend with 15% ethanol would be allowed during the summer. It is normally prohibited during the summer months because of negative environmental effects, such as increased pollution. The President waived this prohibition so that Americans would have minor relief in gasoline prices.
Unfortunately, this change will encourage more farmers to use their crops for ethanol, a biofuel that is made with corn. The result will be a shortage in food products, such as sweet corn, and corn feed, which is used to put weight on livestock. Thus, meat prices will soar to even higher levels.
The ethanol decision is particularly unwise as the country faces an upcoming food shortage. Nevertheless, the Biden administration is uninterested in addressing the real anxieties of Americans. Instead, their major areas of focus are pushing the climate change agenda, globalism, and retaining power. The actual economic condition of the American people is of little concern to Biden and his administration.
Curiously, as America faces this food crisis, approximately 250,000 acres of our farmland have been purchased by billionaire Bill Gates. In fact, Gates is the largest owner of farmland in the country.
Simultaneously, investors with ties to communist China have purchased almost 200,000 acres of our farmland. Both Gates and China are poised to reap massive financial benefits as food prices continue to rise. Even worse, it is a true national security dilemma for communist China to own such a significant amount of our country’s farmland as a food shortage is looming.
The United States Department of Agriculture defines food insecurity as “a household-level economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.” Sadly, this “condition” is coming to America in the very near future.
To combat this crisis, the Biden administration should be working overtime to investigate the troubling incidents at food processing plants and encourage farmers to expand their food crops, not redirect them toward ethanol.
In addition, Biden and his administration should be focused on trying to negotiate a peace settlement to the war in Ukraine. Instead, this administration is allowing other countries, such as Turkey, to take the diplomatic lead in efforts to end the war.
It seems as if the President and his administration are doing everything possible to exacerbate the impending food shortage instead of solving it.
Don’t worry, in a socialist government they will send you a food stipend and most likely an energy stipend, in exchange for your 401k balance and your freedom.
It is mind boggling to me that there are still a large number of Americans who support Biden because it’s their team. It’s as if they will absorb any amount of punishment, as long as it’s their team dishing it out.
Start planting my garden next week, hope no more shopping for lettuce tomatoes veggies and potatoes by July.
When will Brandon be handing out rice cookers to everyone? Of course, there will be no RICE, but it’ll be a nice gesture.
*SPIT*
Its the lunatic green assault on the fossil fuel industry that is causing food shortages and worldwide hunger. Natural gas, the core ingredient of fertilizer is scarce and expensive. Diesel fuel, which is also essential to farmers is also very expensive. Fertilizer and fuel are either unavailable or beyond the means of most of the world’s farmers.
The elite Western green lunatics themselves will not starve and will not be held accountable for the misery and deaths they have caused.
China, Russia, USA all seem to be converging on one governance model from different directions: top-down central planning, social-engineering, controlled media, politicized everything, strategic competition against each other.
The Biden Team Media (most of corporate media) tells them it is all the fault of the evil Conservatives, who want them to starve.
Another treasonous act by a demented traitor.
“The Biden Team Media (most of corporate media) tells them it is all the fault of the evil Conservatives, who want them to starve.”
And they believe it. Whatever happened to “don’t trust the establishment”?
This is why I have so little faith in the American public.
That's exactly their attitude. Just look at the big American cities over the last sixty years or so.
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Libtards will have you eating bugs like cave people if you let them 🤪
It’s all for the greater good. Get chipped, join the one world order. Bow before the beast. It’s all for the greater good.
The long standing Marxist plan to overcome America in plain view. Cloward-Piven lives.
TikTok is the ultimate brainwashing mechanism
We are just a hair’s breadth away from another Great Depression all as a result of Biden and his socialist cabal. While I hope that the GOP sweeps Congress this fall, I doubt their feckless RINO leadership will do anything more than slow the country’s death spiral into economic ruin.
“It is mind boggling to me that there are still a large number of Americans who support Biden because it’s their team. It’s as if they will absorb any amount of punishment, as long as it’s their team dishing it out”.
Great point and right on!
They are so brainwashed that it’s disgusting and sickening.
Not necessarily. With fertilizer prices so high, many will grow soybeans which takes a lot less fertilizer. So between that and Biden allowing E15 to be used all summer, corn shortage and corn is in everything except for Real Food like veggies, fruits and meats. Corn is used to fatten cattle and feed chickens and pigs however and fruits and veggies are grown with that same fertilizer that has increased in price so corn affects the price of all foods in the end.
It seems as if the President and his administration are doing everything possible to exacerbate the impending food shortage instead of solving it.
Pretty much.
I didn’t read the entire article.... but it seems rather suspicious that several food processing plants across the country are being set on fire, or planes are crashing into them....
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