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Take Your Chertoff

Federal officials claim ethanol, border fence green as can be

Posted at 2:11 PM on 02 Oct 2007

Well, phew. Ethanol's not to blame for high food prices and a fence on the U.S.-Mexico border will actually benefit the environment. If we can't believe the top federal farm official and the top federal security official, whom can we believe?

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Better answer to lower food prices...

If there were fewer poor people eating the corn, demand...and thus, prices, would be lower for the rest of us.  Someone in the Bush administration must have developed a plan by now to get rid of the poor people.

Of course, when the price of wheat got too high, the Romans just took over Carthage.  There must be someone somewhere that we can subjugate.

Il faut cultiver notre jardin.

by John former Marine at 3:31 PM on 04 Oct 2007

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