[Sgt_Schultze]

The US government has a policy of “cheap” food. Government subsidies provide income to producers which helps keep down price increases. Cheap imported labor provides extra profit which holds down price increases. If food prices were to behave as energy prices, there would be violent confrontations against government.

[conservativecorner]

This is not the jobs Americans won’t do BS is it? It’s not jobs Americans won’t do, but it’s jobs Americans won’t do for cash wages an illegal alien gets from their criminal employers. The law of supply and demand concerning wages doesn't’t work when you add 12 to 20 million illegals into a pool that should be much smaller. It’s basic Econ 101.

[noname07718]

HECK! If we make food more costly, maybe we’ll eat less and work toward solving the obesity problem in our folks.

[rabscuttle385]

Perhaps the new ethanol mandates — linking corn (food) and ethanol (fuel) — were not so smart a move on the part of our Congress-critters, then?