Ok. I will come out and say it. Wolfowitz is an idiot. On Iraq and everything else.
Don’t think that a thriving agriculture community is important to national security? Just ask the Soviets.
Think cheap corn is starving the world? Just ask anyone in the Breadbasket of Africa, Zimbabwe.
This is just more of the same from those who have sent our major industries offshore & driven up consumer prices here.
Are you saying we wouldn’t have a thriving ag community without subsidies? Are you saying the American farmer can’t compete without being propped up by the government? Because that is what is seems like to me. I guess I have more confidence in the American farmer.
And as for Zimbabwe, they are experiencing like 10,000% inflation due to price controls and starvation due to the Mugabe government seizing farmland out of white hands and putting it in black hands. I’m not saying that black people can’t farm, but these black people were not farmers, but cronies who got the land for two reasons. One, they were black and two, they were Mugabe cronies. Now, the breadbasket is empty and we get to give them food. They are not buying cheap corn.