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Why is it that we have elected a pile of evil people to run this country and make laws? They are, for the most part, self-serving and they are passing laws which will send their stocks up. People who actually want to serve the public good are soon destroyed by the powers-that-be. If they speak the truth, they will be drowned-out by louder and louder lies.
The Bible says that we get the leaders we deserve. That's a scary thought!
We are on the brink of a very hard time. There is a clue of what is coming in the prices we are now paying for gas, food, and utilities. This is the budding on the trees, so to speak. I see a great down-turn coming. It could be slowed by radical action on the part of law-makers, but they lack courage and vision, and as I said, they are self-serving.
What needs to be done is an immediate shut-down of all ethanol-manufacturing plants. All of the corn grown to make that useless fuel needs to be diverted to food supply. Feed for animals AND food for people. Most of the farm fields which were in the past used to supply our food and animal feed is now being used to grow corn for ethanol production. The natural result is that the price of corn for food and feed is sky-rocketing. It is no longer profitable for ranchers to raise cattle for us to eat. It is no longer profitable for farmers to grow corn or wheat for us to eat. It is far more profitable to use the land for ethanol-corn.
The people who passed the laws requiring ethanol to be used for fuel are making huge money from it. They will never admit it, but believe me, they are getting enormous sums of money from this fraud. Everyone was made to think this would help cure us of our need for oil, so objections were few. You may actually believe that ethanol being added to your gasoline has kept the price down. It has not. Of course you think it would have been a lot higher. You are wrong. It is just a way for select people to rake in some of the profits which would have gone to the Arab oil companies. It wasn't mandated to help YOU. It was for the lawmakers benefit.
And it is not limited to the US. Other countries are growing ethanol corn. In poor countries where the people's main food source is corn, it now too expensive to buy or simply unavailable. A lot of people who could have been eating corn are going hungry. Do you think your lawmakers care?
It does not only affect corn. Wheat, barley, vegetables and other crops are not being grown so those fields can be used for ethanol corn. The demand for ethanol corn is high and the ethanol makers are not concerned with the looks of the corn, as you would be if you were buying it to put on the dinner table.
All meats will be affected: chicken, pork, beef, lamb. All of these animals are fed corn, which is getting too expensive to make it cost-effective to raise the animals. A lot of cattle ranchers are sending their cattle to market early just to break even. This has resulted in a temporary glut in the cattle market. Buy it now, because there will be no replacement herd until the price of corn comes down. The price will not come down as long as there is a demand for ethanol. The demand for ethanol will not go down until they repeal the laws requiring it to be added to gasoline. The laws will not be repealed as long as crooked politicians are making money from ethanol production. Crooked politicians will make money from the laws they pass until people rebel. And they and I know this isn't going to happen. (This is one good reason to stand behind the 2nd amendment to the Constitution of the USA. The intent of this amendment was to prevent the tyranny we are seeing today. Of course lawmakers know this or they wouldn't be trying so hard to take our guns away.)
We can't keep electing career politicians. Our founders had in mind that the elected officials in Washington should be citizens who serve their term and then go back to the business they were in before they got elected. Today our elected officials are, for the most part, people who have never had a job. They never ran a business. They went to law school and then right into a public sector job, which they only took to use as a springboard to run for office. It is the same in local government. Some of them skip the law school part, going right into a public sector job. Once they are in, they never want to let go of being paid tax dollars. It's a form of welfare. Most of the jobs would not even exist, but for laws their kind have engineered. And it is growing steadily. More government laws begets more government jobs. Oh and they all have to get pensions with health benefits. They are entitled, after all those years of 20 hour work weeks. This is what they live for.
There is no need to give a pension to a citizen pol who serves a term and goes home. But just take a look some day at the retirement benefits they have legislated for themselves.
I have digressed. Let's get back to the ethanol corn thing:
The actions of these modern politicians is pure evil: For our law-makers to put us in this position so they can grow richer! This is evil indeed. And it is not just they who are getting richer. Their families and friends who helped con people into voting for them are also profiting. And it is never enough money, no matter how much they have.
What will you do when a loaf of bread costs $15---if you can even find a loaf of bread. The wheat field is now being used to grow corn. Not corn for your July 4th barbecue. Nope. Corn for the fuel makers.
Wait till you see the price of an ear of corn this Summer (2008)!! You thought it was high last summer?...You had better think again. Do you think the fuel makers care if there is a little worm in the ear of corn? The grower has an easier time selling to the fuel makers.
Fresh vegetables are going to be a delicacy. Those squash and tomato fields are being used to grow corn now. Not corn for you or the chickens which laid those eggs you eat in the morning. Nope. Corn for the fuel makers.
What is happening to the dairy farmers? Prices are going up on the feed. How much are you willing to pay for the milk you put on your cereal? What about the butter for your toast?
What can be done? You can complain to your lawmakers. You can stock up on some foods now, but unless you have a silo, it won't last long enough to ride this thing out. By the end of the summer of 2008 you will see what I am talking about.
If they haven't reversed the requirements for ethanol by then... well, I pity the good old USA.