I don't buy the 25% 'going hungry' out there either, though most on assistance look like they could stand to miss a few meals.
Posted on 12/30/2010 12:48:50 AM PST by Rashputin
December 29, 2010
Manmade famine in America
Thomas Lifson
It seems inconceivable, but people in America are going hungry en masse due to a famine caused by political authorities. Fresno, California is not yet a sister city of Kiev, Ukraine, but the two cities, capitals of rich agricultural regions, share a history of mass hunger caused by central governments indifferent to the suffering of their people, in the pursuit of ideological goals. Investor's Business Daily explains:
Fresno is the agricultural capital of America. More food per acre in more variety can be grown in the fertile Central Valley surrounding this community than on any other land in America - perhaps in the world.
Yet far from being a paradise, Fresno is starting to resemble Zimbabwe or 1930s Ukraine, a victim of a famine machine that is entirely man-made, not by red communists this time, but by greens.
State and federal officials, driven by the agenda of environmental extremists, have made it extremely difficult for the valley's farms, introducing costly environmental regulations and cutting off critical water supplies to save the Delta smelt, a bait fish. It's all driving the economy to collapse.
In the southwest part of the Central Valley, water allotments as low as 10% of normal have created a visible dust bowl. The knock-on effect can be seen in cities like Fresno, where November's unemployment among the packers, cannery workers and professional fields that make agriculture productive stands at 16.9%.
So bad is the economy, due to federal water restrictions, that almost a quarter of local families are going hungry in Fresno:
Local newspapers and Fresno County officials are trying to rally Facebook users to vote for Fresno in a corporate contest sponsored by Wal-Mart for $1 million in charity food donations for the hungry. Fresno, a city of 505,000, has taken the national lead because 24.1% of Fresno's families are going hungry.
The destruction of the agricultural economy of America's most productive region is yet another example of federal policies literally destroying America's productive capacity. To be sure, the Fresno famine is not causing mass starvation, merely hunger. But this America, and destroying jobs and agricultural capacity is a shameful initiative of government.
Don’t forget that food & water is now being used as a political extortion tool by the democrats as well. Just like the communists did to Russia and East Europe the past century.
Several california congress members were able to grant an temporary increase in water for farms in their districts filled with almond trees dying from lack of it if they voted for Obamacare.
California used to have the biggest almond production groves on the planet. Now due to the continued destruction of the California agri business by the enviro-wackos and the politicians backing this agenda, countries like Australia are gladly developing their own major almond industry to fill the demand.
Both the communist Democrats and the slightly-less-communist RINOs are using the combined playbooks of all of history's worst collectivist, inhuman tyrants.
Just wait until the recently passed food safety bill kicks in..
Same thing has happened repeatedly in the Klamath. It is all about ever increasing government control over natural resources. First it was the spotted owl and the timber industry, then it was a shut down of mining. Now it is control over water use and land use for the benefit of fish, where government can exthort your water rights as a condition of a permit to farm.
It used to be that you had to be shown to be causing damage to general public health and safety. Now they can just put you in jail for non compliance with any regulation they can dream up. Whatever happened to liberty? It died in California.
What does one do with the pitchfork when the govt shuts down the farm?
All government is incompetent. that is why the smallest and least intrusive is the best.
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“due to federal water restrictions, that almost a quarter of local families are going hungry in Fresno”
25% of the population of Fresno are going hungry????? That’s pure BS!
We have welfare programs that insure that anyone poor enough will not starve.....that is......unless......they are criminals that came across the border illegally.
What will the 112th congress do about the problem? time to take down the insane green scam game.
Really; as long as the average welfare queen weighs 450 lbs. and has an ass wider than a Mack truck, nobody can seriously buy into the “hunger in America” rant. What other country has the simultaneous dual problems of obesity and starvation among its downtrodden?
Not to disagree with what has already been said, BUT I think there are people in our government who would like to lessen the United States agricultural production so that more goods from overseas can be brought in. It is their way to pay back the debt we owe.
What made me think of this is a statement made by a good friend of mine. Her teenaged sons had been working parttime at a local Maryland dairy for several years, but were laid off last summer. The dairy owner said that state and federal government were trying to put all small production units out of business because they are going to be bringing in more dairy from China.
I don't buy the 25% 'going hungry' out there either, though most on assistance look like they could stand to miss a few meals.
I don't buy the 25% 'going hungry' out there either, though most on assistance look like they could stand to miss a few meals.
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