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Ya know what guys? None of this crap really means anything!!!! The people we'd better vote for this year are the one's who are ready to do something about the upcoming food shortage in this country!!!!!! Corn is over $8.00 a bushel already, and the full impact of this falls corn shortages aren't even beginning to be felt yet! Three guys I talked with this week sold their pigs (over 1,000 head feeder pig to slaughter operations) and will not be buying more because the price of corn negates any possibility of a profit!!! Cattle feeder buddy of mine in Nebraska was going to chop all his corn (the little their is) for silage, buy more cattle and feed them.---Wrong, the corn is so high in nitrates and low in nutrition it's not even fit for cattle feed. Then add to this a government that mandates 10% ethanol in gasoline, and is trying to increase this to 15%. This will add even more to the price of corn, some say around $11.00 a bushel by harvest time, and all of a sudden we have placed fuel in front of food!!!!! You think a bit of a dilemma in the agricultural part of the country doesn't involve you??? If you eat, you're involved in agriculture!!!! Some have bemoaned the farm program and farm subsidies--many of which have been ignored by Congress and are now or soon will expire. Don't expect farmers to raise pigs and cattle at a loss!!! Left to simple economics of supply and demand, corn will sell to the highest bidder (ethanol production) and food production will suffer terribly!

That's it in a nutshell. The national debt, world economics, ad nauseum will mean very little this winter when you're trying to figure out how the heck you're going to afford to put food on the table!!! How's $12.00 a pound pork chops, and $15.00 a pound hamburger sound???? If that fits into your budget, then you must be right up there in income with Mitt and the boys!!!!! Is this the price we must be willing to pay to keep government out of big business???? I sure as heck don't have all the answers, I'm not even sure what all the questions will be but what I am sure of is that if the idiots in Washington don't quit arguing about a bunch of stupid, meaningless bs and become a proactive government instead of a reactive government it's going to be a long, hungry winter for a lot of us!!!!!

Can we still afford to keep our troops in countries that don't even want us their (at the cost of how many human lives and how many billion dollars annually? Is there anybody running for any office who actually gives a hoot about the day to day problems the majority of us face now, or the problems coming in the future??? If nothing POSITIVE is done soon in Washington we could conceivably fall into a depression that makes the recessions of 2008 and 2012 seem trivial!!!!! I'm to the stage that I could care less about what anyone wants to do about situations throughout the world, I'm looking for the people who have a plan for feeding the people in this country and some sort of plan for economic survival for Joe Average!!!!!

What do you expect from the people you vote for???

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Ya know what guys? None of this crap really means anything!!!!

I'm to the stage that I could care less about what anyone wants to do about situations throughout the world, I'm looking for the people who have a plan for feeding the people in this country and some sort of plan for economic survival for Joe Average!!!!!

What do you expect from the people you vote for???

I've let these kind of comments, yours and Steve's along with a couple others, slide as usual grousing. But it's time to try to interject some sensibility in this portion of the commentary. Do we have problems with crooked, self serving politicians. Sure, we get the government we deserve. If we believe the government should have the power to rule our lives............this is what we get. They tell us what kind of light bulbs we can use. Tell us we must use food, or land that could grow food alternately, for purposes other than food. Piss away borrowed money to fund pixie dust energy boondogles, and on and on..................we've listed a bunch throughout this thread.

But what really bugs me is this, "they're all the same, IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO YOU VOTE FOR" B.S. It does matter. It seems this "it doesn't matter...." crap always comes up when certain politicians are in trouble in the polls or focus groups. Then it gets filtered into the media messages in a subtle way.............."Congress is disfunctional....", "Such and so are obstructing....." and so forth. When one segment of the political spectrum doesn't get a blank check the other guy is unreasonable for not caving in. Funny, we never got any of that "disfunctional" jazz a couple years ago. The media's guys had full control...............................and look at the results. You want government to "do something"? When they have full control of the medical system they'll literally have the power to say whether you live or die at their whim.

The 2010 election was the people sending a clear message that a significant number of the population didn't like what happened in Congress and from the White House. Some of you don't like or agree with that message, but it was a democratically expressed message.........not controlled by the top of the political system and it's lap dog propaganda machine. A good number of those folks elected then are trying to put some dampers on an excessive government, but don't have the numbers yet to make it happen. They are, of course, a target of the power hungry and could just as easily lose their seats. THAT'S why this "they're all the same......" junk gets spread. It's a TACTIC to subtly suppress voter turn out. Think about it...................who would benefit most from a dejected electorate in this election cycle. If you (the general you, not Dave specifically) can't figure that out, maybe you shouldn't vote. The founding fathers wisely structured our government with the intent that no politician could annoint himself king (or similar). They purposely wanted divided power so that all factions could have a chance and none be suppressed by some authoritarian structure. It saddens me to see too many in our society lose sight of that and as a result, intentional or not doesn't matter, throw away freedom for the common man.