Jesus weeps today.
We bombed another ancient land, and then abandoned it, forcing it to sell the precursor crop of one of the most harmful drugs ever known to man to generate the money to feed its people. Americans suffer and die from the very heroine our reckless belligerence delivered to our own streets
I read in the New York Times today that prices of rice and other staple foods in Asia have risen so high as to literally threaten people’s ability to put food on their families (couldn’t resist), and may lead to mass uprisings. MSNBC told me staple foods in the United States have risen dramatically, also putting the poorer among us in danger of malnutrition in the land of plenty. Of course, famine persists in Africa, Latin American and other poor parts of the world. Then I also read that one reason food prices are so high is because commodities traders are running up futures prices, including the price of oil which has contributed to higher costs for food, to make a quick buck. Here it is again. We have made the following decision: prices for the things we need to survive should be set by people selling pieces of paper back and forth to make as much money as possible before the survival essentials ever make it to the market for us to buy.
Money for the few over food for the many. All the mothers and fathers of peace and love weep today.
But it is even worse than that. In a world with rising food prices and rising hunger and food scarcity, and with dangerously dwindling supplies of clean, drinkable water, we are literally burning food and the water needed to grow it.
Yep. We are taking corn, sugar cane and other crops out of mouths and turning them into fuel to run our cars. Like I said, burning food so we can continue to drive the Hummer over to the 7-11 to buy the pint of ice cream driven across the country in a big truck burning, in part, food. (I owe the ice cream run to a great social justice economist I heard on Alternative Radio a few years ago, but I can’t remember his name).
Feed the hungry, if they can pay your price. Jesus weeps.
A brilliant, highly capable, well educated and tightly focused woman is running against a brilliant, well educated, highly capable and inspirational mixed black and white man for the Democratic nomination for President. A ground-breaking and exciting development that would leave us not only with a huge advancement beyond our nice talk of racial and gender evolution, but also with a heck of a talented, effective and eloquent President.
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