Linking Aid to Food, Food to Riots, Riots to Change

Obviously, with Egypt rioting, and as we've seen Greece rioting and Ireland rioting over the past 12 months or so, is it hard to wonder just where the world is headed?

Travel over to Phil's Stock World to have a look at this article discussing inflation and the correlation of the coming storm in food price shock, hunger, and revolutions (oh, and a funny cartoon of Keith Overbite).

Furthering the discussion of food, riots, and revolutions, several other interesting articles have been published today.  First, the Financial Times (Google the text of this link for the article http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cf0a73bc-2a44-11e0-b906-00144feab49a.html#axzz1CLWPoe6W) offers an assessment that developed countries are stock piling food as fast as they can.  Some have increased their demands as much as four fold from the year prior.

Considering that items like sugar are up 30% in cost in less than one year's, today's theme is price inflation with a lack of coresponding wage inflation (for those who even have jobs).  We've now watched the PIIGS transition to the Balkans, and back to Northern Africa.  How long before the full Middle East is revolting and the revolts traverse the Atlantic? 

ROTD: Responding to Warren Buffet; Shut Up You Grumpy Old Man!

Linked off of Drudge today, Warren Buffet told the taxpayers of this country to "Get over your anger...because it's not productive." 

Excuse me old Chief of the Midwest free market economy, who anointed you the mediator between the people and the government?  Anyone?  I didn't think so.  Please Mr. Buffett, you grumpy old SOB, drink a nice big cup of STFU!  While anyone in this country can admire your personal success story, you've become complacent in how your mind sees the economy.  You have a mountain of wealth and capital that for all intents and purposes will never be destroyed.  Your personal life and the ability to live it without fear of homelessness, hunger or untreated medical conditions, is completely insulated from how the market meddlers and their dangerous actions affect us average Joes.  Sure, I understand you don't mind the death tax, nor do you have a major problem with the redistribution schemes that congress has cooked up in recent years, but how much have you paid to play inside the system and help keep us serfs down at serf level? 

“The truth is we’re running a federal deficit that’s 9 percent of gross domestic product,” Buffett said. “That’s stimulative as all get out. It’s more stimulative than any policy we’ve followed since World War II.”

YES SIR, Mr. Buffet sir!  We all asked for that economic stimulus!  Every one of us in these great United States ask that our federal government mortgage our future and that of our children to create an ordered growth that has no doubt benefited your company's bottom line.  How pathetic are you to tell us to shut up and take the elitists' position and not partake in OUR government.  No Mr. Buffet, money doesn't by you the people's votes, it only buys you influence in the representative republic.  What you failed to realize is that once the serfs have enough putting up with your garbage peddling, we will do everything in our power, to take back the means of opportunity so we can potentially reach the riches you have acquired. 

Further Mr. Buffet, you yourself should know that the true Keynesian model is for the government to run surpluses in times of economic prosperity, so that it can then pull from the safety net in times of need.  Once the safety net is used, borrowing from the savers of the country, or using foreign financing is acceptable, as long as that leverage is paid back as quickly as possible to put the country back in the black.

But, I digress, Mr. Buffet knows all of this and has used it to make billions upon billions.  The sad matter remains that the old kook has officially gone off his free market rocker, simply because he knows that to maintain his power and riches he must toe the party line of the ruling class.  All aboard the country class train, as it runs clean through Mr. Buffet's pompous ass. 

QOTD: Rant Style (Government Stupidity and GPS Trackers)

This morning, while on my way to work I received a phone call from my wife...

Here is my rant of the day, are you ready for this?  The government wants to put GPS trackers on our vehicles to track our every move, but when you call 911 to report a fire along the side of the road, they don't know where the hell mile marker 4 is on the interstate!   I can't believe they asked me where mile marker 4 was on the interstate!  They also asked me what county it was in!

So, even when you do your good deed for the day, you still want to go face-palm because of the stupidity of the government official.  Additionally, the ineptitude of those with "power" eludes to the potential corruption of an expanded Big Brother state.  It wouldn't have matter what county mile marker four was in along the interstate that my wife travels, because it's a non-changing standard of measure.

Sure, she may have bounced off of a different jurisdiction's cell tower, but even if that is the case, how hard is it to quickly Google map that and figure out which jurisdiction it does belong.  Further more, an EMS operator should know something about inter-jurisdictional issues and hand-offs, no?   What is worse is that if an EMS offical, who is supposed to be concise, speedy, and knowledgeable for handling emergency situations can't calculate or comprehend geographical problems, how in the world are we to trust other bureaucrats to calculate our "mileage" allowance for carbon emissions taxation? 

Hence the reason the wife had to give me her ROTD (rant of the day) on continued government absurdity and backwardness.

Rant of the Day: RNC Chairman Steele At it Again!

Good old Chairman Michael Steele is at it again!  What a reject!  HotAir Blog has the coverage of today's article in The Hill

Seems the Chairman doesn't care for the Arizona Immigration law, and is hoping to spark some "good" news for the liberal media and political establishment to gin up.  His statements have me so frustrated that it's created today's rant of the day (ROTD)!  

Chairman Steele,

Please stop speaking for the party!  We in the country class are tired of our "political leaders" gabbing their "opinions" and insulting our intelligence as for how the Constitution and our Country are supposed to work.  I am referring to your comments in today's "the Hill" article.  Sorry to say, but it is party members LIKE AZ Gov Jan Brewer that DO represent me, and reflect the notion of the country class movement far better than you and the RNC do.  Stop dumbing down the issues, and make the RNC actually stand for something like, oh I don't know freedom and national sovereignty.  You would certainly see more support from me and others like me, IF you would stop playing the inside the beltway game and forced your candidates and organization to act like citizens! 

Illegal means ILLEGAL.  It does not mean undocumented and it is a non-discriminatory offense NOT BASED on race, religion, creed, sex, or sexual orientation.  It is based upon international LAW.  LAW, you know the rules by which citizens (and even their elected representatives) are supposed to constrain themselves by.

I have voted for you in the past, but you no longer represent the average American that likes his country for the way it was founded [emphasis added].  Please, do us all a favor and go back to liking puppies. 

PS: I'm sending an email to Jan Brewer that she needs to remind you that YOU don't represent the entire Republican party either.  Seriously, stop ruining our chances to win the Nov. elections.  Or, if you'd like, get the heck out of our way!