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Posted by SilverFox on Sun Jul 6 17:37:03 2008, in response to Re: Joey Chestnut wins Nathan's hot dog eating contest, posted by Forest Glen on Sun Jul 6 11:27:15 2008. . . . amazed that while there are several countries where people are starving, the US has enough food to waste in competitive eating. What's so amazing about it? We determine we need X amount of food, and we go out and produce it due to market demand. And, we produce more just to make sure, or to give to other countries in aid. Our government, for all the accurate bad we say about it, is still free from hostile co-opt by military juntas, strongmen, and dictators that cause unrest keeping people from focusing on what's important (like producing food, electricity, clean water, etc.), unlike basket case countries like Haiti and Zimbabwe that can't grow enough to feed their population because the resident shmucktator decrees that their populations should starve. In fact, Mugabe of Zimbabwe drove all the native [white] farmers off their land in order to give reparations to black indigents whom he felt were made that way because of the white man. And what happened? That country cannot produce food. Not because the new "owners" of the farms are black, but because they don't know a hoe from a ho. Zimbabwe used to be the bread basket of Africa; now it is a food IMPORTER. And with the cost of all this imported food (and other staples of society no longer able or willing to be manufactured) rising against worldwide demand like the price of gas is rising to us, inflation has kicked in. To the tune of over ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND PERCENT A YEAR IF NOT TWO. So this is NOT a result of us having a hot-dog eating contest. This is NOT the result of Americans being obese. This is NOT the result of our not caring. It is the result of the leadership (or lack thereof) of other sovereign nations, and the peoples' meek acceptance (forced or not) of their fate. What gets me is that there are only a few thousand junta strongmen to millions of peasants being starved. If these peasants are so resourceful and intelligent, why don't they fight back like Peter Rosa says we should have fought back against the 9/11 hijackers? If they die, they die with honor instead of as cowards. If they succeed, they have a chance to live like kings as masters of their own destiny. That is, if they are as resourceful and intelligent as we say they are. I'm sure they are. Just another philosophical discussion. |
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