Bush say's it isn't his fault
So it it's not his fault or the fault of his administrations policies or of past administrations that America is facing in the looming and growing food price crisis according to Mr. Bush himself. Seems it is the fault of the growing middle class of India according to the President and his Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice this past week.
She goes on to say that China is also at fault as well. She said that improving incomes and prosperity in India and China were responsible for the rising food prices. It would appear that Bush and his people will go to any length to keep from owning up to his administration policy shortcomings on how much corn, wheat, rice and other basic crops, how much to grow and not grow and a failure of a coherent and viable energy policy to make us more self-sufficiengt and less dependent on foreign oil imports. Like Clinton, don't get caught between Mr. Bush and his legacy rebuilding. It would appear that Mr. Bush learned at least one valuable lesson from the Clinton's and that is to, "deny, deny, deny" when things aren't going your way.
Probably one of the biggest boondoggle's of President Bush's administration is the ongoing bio-fuel scam being perpetrated against not only the people of the United States but on the world as well is the diversion of, so far around 3 billion bushels of corn to make 9 billion gallons of ethanol which equates to around 25%-30% of the current American corn crop. AND THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT WANTS AT LEAST 35 BILLION GALLONS PRODUCED IN TEN YEARS, WHICH WOULD TAKE NEARLY THE ENTIRE AMERICAN CORN CROP ACREAGE TO PRODUCE. Americans had better wake up and demand of Washington to stop and reverse this bio-fuel scam before America is reduced to a third world nation having to beg for food for its very day to day exisience.
Bush blames India's middle class for food price hike
WASHINGTON, May 3: US President George W. Bush on Saturday blamed the ‘wealthy’ lifestyle of India’s huge middle class for the spiralling global food prices.
“There are 350 million people in India who are classified as middle class. That’s bigger than America. Their middle class is larger than our entire population,” observed Mr Bush. ‘‘And when you start getting wealth, you start demanding better nutrition and better food. And so demand is high, and that causes the price to go up.”
The remarks, made in a speech on economy and trade, earned him an immediate rebuke from India where a spokesman for the ruling Congress party said Mr Bush’s analysis was “completely erroneous” as India is not a food importer but a food exporter.
Mr Bush, however, is not the first US leader to blame India. Earlier this week, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice also expressed similar views. She said that improving incomes and prosperity in India and China were responsible for the rising food prices.
Other American officials also have indicated that people in these two countries were eating too much and a better quality food, which has forced world food prices to go up.
In India, a Congress party spokesman Manish Tewari told reporters that Mr Bush’s assessment was wrong.
“The facts speak otherwise. India is not a net food importer. It is a food exporter,” he said. “The assumption that local prices are increasing because of a changed India is completely erroneous.”
Mr Tewari instead blamed the developed world for the crisis. “Diversion of arable land in the developed world for ethanol production and changes in the climate pattern led to the crisis,” he said.
In the meanwhile the smart and prudent thing to be doing in the meanwhile is to be slowly stockpiling of the non-perishable foodstuffs derived from corn and wheat. For those that can they should consider putting in a victory garden and canning what they can. I rather suspect that it will likely get worse before it gets better. It won't be long before we will look back longingly to this period as the good ol' days.
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