I read about a selection process going on to see which countries we are going to cut food aid. The cost over run caused by both using food stock grains as ethanol and the burgeoning China and India demand on grain.

I never understood the use of corn for ethanol when the brazilian model using sugar cane was an obvious choice. I understood the power of the corn lobby and the subsidy. The obvious effiency of sugar cane and the obvious future strain on the grain market should have canceled out the corn lobby for a patriot. Then again when you have the best government money can buy it will always be easy to second guess the decision making process.

To be practical the AK-47 theory would be of little concern to us if we ever learned how to keep an army at home. You reap a double savings, shutting down most of the 730 military bases we have in 130 countries would put a large dent in the deficit. Stop the food give away program and price wheat and corn for export much like the Saudi's charge for a barrel of oil and give the American consumer a break at the grocery store.

It may sound cruel but if you think you are ever going to wean Sub-Sahara Africa off our grain stocks you don't know anything about the Malthus Theory. Political solutions can't over ride nature. The pain threashold of the American consumer will force some changes. Modified AR-15's and AK-47's in the United States can induce some behavior modifications on world grain markets also.

Pain at the pump causes irratability, pain in the stomach causes revolution. I will never become so liberal as not to begin with charity at home. Especially when the problems we are trying to solve throwing grain at are insurmountable.

I remember cases where the U.S. insigna has to be taken off the grain bags and it is destributed in some cases by the factions that have destroying America in their incorporation papers. We get little or no credit for half the grain that is distributed and in most cases it comes back by biting the hand that feeds you.

Let the free market that the neocons tout work in this situation. Lets see how the House of Saud likes buying wheat and corn at $100 dollars a bushel.

Whether your sensitivity or conscious allows this kind of thinking or not, the above scenario is inevitable.

The eons of time and nature was good to us down here. It was not until we become civilized that destroying our habitat become fathomable or fashionable.

A measure of wheat for a denarii, and three measure of barley for a denarii; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.

The eons of time and nature was good to us down here. It was not until we become civilized that destroying our habitat become fathomable or fashionable.

What needs to happen now or retroactively back to the last ethanol subsidy checks being sent is a 100% reduction in those subsidies, a roll back of the legislated mandate of ethanol percentage in gasoline to 0% and increased paid set asides, summer fallow regimes or nitrogen plow down crops to conserve soil and resources for food for future generations and to keep the present grains commodity price up at it's current break even level to preserve farmers. Now food can be produced for future generations, just in case they need it. Much like maintaining a fire department just in case there is a fire. Right now if there is a fire ADM and Cargill are right there trying to convince some politician to dump ethanol on it.