Why an Obama Presidency is so important: The poor pay more for Necessities

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SamuelRSmith said:

Kasz216 said:

SamuelRSmith said:
Oh yeah, I know that. That's what I'm saying: stop subsidising American farmers, and continue with European farmers.

So your actually for holding down poor countries on purpose.  Based on previous political beliefs I wouldn't of thought that to be so.

I thought you were one of the people decrying protectionism back when Obama was trying to use it in the big bailout.

It was simply because it didn't benefit you personally?

 

 Actually, it was said tongue-in-cheek.

 

That's how we stay first world countries. We keep other countries down. No difference there between the USA and the EU. We are ruining the farmers in africa by exporting milk and chickens to cheaper prices than they can produce.

 

The only difference is, that the USA exported too much corn to mexico, ruining their local supply and now can't keep the US-prices low, due to too less corn production, when some of it is used to produce energy. The EU had earlier actions taken on the problem of high oil prices, so it didn't hit us that hard.

 

As food prices with lower energy prices in a crisis, won't be a big problem for some time, you shouldn't create the next one.

 

The problem is now, that if first world countries start to protect themselves from each other, all of them will suffer. Why is that? Europe can export less, the US can export less, we get bigger problems, but you get even bigger problems because the EU then wants the money, it lent the US, back. So this is no solution.

 

There are as always many other reasons for higher food prices, like no(/ not high enough) taxes on food-/ energy-speculation, but I think the one above is the main one.