Friday, April 25, 2008

Rising food prices

The price of milk, corn, flour, oil, etc etc is rising steadilly. Corn's price rise is pretty obvious. The government says X amount should go to ethanol, so there's shortages. Remind you of something? Reminds me of two things-first, the 1970's oil lines. Regulation caused that. Second, FDR's New Deal which got us into this mess. Everyone curses Hoover, but the brunt came after Holy Lord Roosevelt (Exalted be His Name and His State!) implimented the New Deal.
What about the other stuff though? Is it the end result of food shortages? Sort of. Inflation has a pretty big hand in this I'd imagine. Just wait until the price of Pepsi rises. I'll be laughing while people bring up...Pepsi shortages?
So, what are some solutions to this problem? Well, I'm sure our glorious State will figure something out, right? Of course, I was testing your faith. Some of my predictions:
1. Further rationing
2. Kicking out 12,000,000 illegal immigrants because we obviously can't support more than 300,000,000 people
3. Government queues on production

So, socialism (Obama), fascism (McCain), or a mixture of both (Clinton)?
Good luck picking!

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