"Crabb, David" wrote:
> pardon my logic... but if there "currently is enough food around.. and the
> hungry only go hungry because
> of distribution issues"...
>
Actually what is happening is even more insidious -- just one quick
example:
U.S. farmers overproduce, say, corn. So corn is shipped to Guatamala and dumped
on the market. There is no way the small local farmer can compete with his mule
and single row plow, so he goes broke, can't sell his crop. At the same time,
the military is roaming around, looking for dissidents (guerrillas) and
hasseling rural people, causing many people to move to the city to be safe --
especially since they can't make a living farming anymore. So then, in order to
survive, they have to work in the sweat shop factories run by Walmart or Nike
or whoever for 35 cents an hour.
Nice system, eh? The multinational megacorp win all the way around, the
people lose all the way around -- in the US, in the Third World too. All the US
jobs go to Guatamala/werever -- soon the US will be just another 3rd World
economy.
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