Those 12 items must not have included bacon, orange juice, milk or cheese. Breakfast foods in particular are way up.
'cause we're burning the stuff that's necessary for the production of those things.
While I don’t necessarily disagree with the “we burn what makes those” point, I think as a side note, that the government has already pawned off “School lunch” on us and is pushing further school breakfast and even school dinner and summer meals. I believe it’s probable (it’s a gut feeling based on historical precedent) that there is a coordinated effort to get all U.S. Citizens to be on government food aid, from food stamps (60 million and climbing), and free school lunch, breakfast, etc.
Soon, there will be political strings attached (as there already are in a roundabout way). If we took corn subsidies away, the costs of all these items would rise anyway, which I don’t necessarily think is bad anyway. I should qualify that to mention, that the U.S. pays very low costs as a percentage of total income compared to the world, and the world has been subsidizing our spending. If we truly cut entitlement spending and stop living off of the world’s subsidies to us (buying our debt while we spend TRILLIONS we don’t have) and had to live within our means it would shatter our way of life.
I personally believe that food costs should reflect true price, without government subsidies to the corn farmers of any type, and without foreign countries subsidizing our debt. Call me crazy, but I know that in the end, self reliance and the confidence and freedom it brings are worth more than all the luxury and apathy that money can buy.
I know others will disagree, but I’d like to see freedom from debt, even if it means the ticket price of food goes up. People can grow gardens, and charity will undoubtedly grow as our tax burden diminishes. Prosperity comes from industry and Divine Providence, hence our country has been on a downward slide for 60 years. The world was forces to buy from the U.S. after WW2 not because we made high quality merchandise (although we did) but because the rest of the industrialized world’s infrastructure was bombed into oblivion. Well that’s changed. The unions took over (most manufacturing), making lower and lower quality goods. At the same time, taxes increased and politicians commited treason allowing “free trade” to export American labor, without taxing and tarriffing incoming goods. Thus, the rest of the world built their manufacturing base, and the citizens of foreign countries are starting to realize their industry is worth more than the pennies they have often been paid.
The world, and U.S. in particular are poised to face a correction of magnitude, and it’s been a long time coming. Americans need to pull together, and through the oppression off. We were once industrious, innovative and providential. If we are to become that way again we’ll have to throw off the regulatory gorilla on our back, institute tariffs on incoming goods, and actually reap what we sow, and we’ll get back to being the greatest, thriving economy in the world.
I end with the prayer: May God bless America, and her people as they seek His will, and conform to His laws, may He lift them up and hold them in the palm of His hand, set to be a city on a hill, in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.