The new Power Politics

I read this Post by Stormy at Angry Bear, and wonder if the emphasis of the World leadership may be misdirected. We worry about feeding the Poor, and designing Shortcuts to get Populations past agricultural production failures. Export restrictions are decreed to be hoarding. It examines several Issues which should be studied, but only in full Context, fully outlining the Problems. Fertilizer needs a secondary condition of sufficient Water; but not too much, maybe about 8% of the yearly supply of Fertilizer has been washed from the Soil this year due to flooding, most within the highest Price belt for Fertilizer. Criticism has been placed on the use of foodstuffs as animal feed, but few note that most land devoted to animal feed is unsuitable for growth of human food, or lacks sufficient Distribution outside of concentrating the production in forms of Meat; it mentions the Costs of Transportation of Food, yet leaves unmentioned the quadrupling of Transportation Costs of Food transference in Processed or Bulk human food other than in Meat Products. Bio-fuels can be seen as an enemy, and their subsidy is a stupidity, but still provides high feed content for animals, and Fruit Lactose saves Thousands of acres of farmland for alternative Food crops rather than Sugar Cane or Sugar beets. Know thy Enemy, and give the Devil his due!

Greg Mankiw points out that politicians are going to a lot of Work to avoid the Word ‘tax’. I would adopt a more diplomatic (yeah, Me!) Response, simply stating that Everyone is beginning to realize the extreme difficulties arising from Cap-n-Trade, which is the Start of the Social central planing which doomed the Soviet system. The entire Carbon debate itself remains crippled by the Demand that bureaucratic mandates be fixed on the Issue. Simple Taxation has always been the simplistic answer to a vast conglomeration of Issues, many of which could not be resolved in any dictated fashion. Taxation, though almost All will not admit it, relies on the Market system; allocating usage according to Profitability.

The Reader should preview this Web site, and read the article. Why has every American come to feel hostility to a Government which they purportedly elect? Why do Americans hold animus for institutions which are presented as a Salvation from hazardous economic forces? Why is even FEMA considered a invasive foreign national corporation? The Answer to all Questions can be reduced to one Word: bureaucracy. We have too many People telling Us what to do, and We don’t even know who most of them are! lgl