I would expect the US priority would be giving $33 billion to farmers to aid crop production, and also using those fancy emergency powers to prioritize growth and distribution of grains and feed stock instead of ginseng and canola?
Just food for thought...
Democracy prevents famine. (Amartya Sen) Food shortages would be a sign that the world is nearing the adoption of the China Model.
You no longer live in a constitutional republic either
Legally speaking, our constitution is what defines our country and its government, and the constitution defines a republic, not a democracy. The constitution does not guarantee (or even mention) citizens' rights or privileges to vote. In fact, most citizens had no right to vote for most of our nation's history. The moment they did gain this right was the moment the nation started to fall apart.
However, because our government no longer adheres to its defining document, it could be more accurately said that we live in a failed state. The government is certainly not weak, but the government that the constitution defines is nearly gone, and that makes our constitutional republic a failed state that is occupied by a "democratic" tyranny.
You're not limited to one adjective/noun pair. The truthfulness of the USA being a democratic republic is up for debate, but they have taught that in schools.
Constitutional republic.
Not "democratic republic". They taught "democratic republic" in school to help indoctrinate children into believing that we lived in a "democracy", which is now what they use (they've since dropped the "republic" part).
A constitutional republic could still have democratic elections and remain a constitutional republic. Conflating democracy and republic and related concepts is how they've confused our younger population into believing we live in a democracy. This is how they have managed to turn our country into a failed state. Referendums are common place now, with big decisions being made in them.
https://legaldictionary.net/constitutional-republic/
I am not conflating the two. I believe that the word democratic, used as an adjective, can apply to various governmental structures as long as the people legitimately have a legally-binding say in who the ultimate decision makers are. Would you entertain the thought of a democratic, constitutional republic or a constitutional, democratic republic?
You seem to be arguing that democracies cannot have constitutions, as having one would make the government constitutional and therefore not democratic. Is that was you mean?
No I just mean that the people did not choose who was in power originally. When the republic was created it was much more akin to an aristocracy than what we currently live in now. This is why I was suggesting reading about Platos five regimes, because we started as a timocracy that was formed by something akin a very short-lived aristocracy (the constitutional convention). Then we became an oligarchy in the 20th century when many large private corporations and tycoons captured most of the government. Our form of oligarchy was referred to as a "corporatocracy". We've been descending into democracy for the past 15 years, which is quickly leading us to the final form / regime (tyranny).
I am not talking about a governmental structure, but democracy in that the people are able to replace leadership. If governmental policies cause famine, those starving people will decide on different policies.
Of course, if the famine is due to external forces, the best they can do is share food in a way that minimizes the damage.
Out of curiosity, what's the deal with putting democracy in parentheses like that?
Minor nitpick: freedom & free markets prevent famine. "Democracy" leads to tyranny. See Plato's Five Regimes.
So a small group of wealthy people can buy up all the food and make it unaffordable by everybody else? That can't prevent famine.
Is that what free markets do? So you're telling me that you're unable to go to your local hardware store (even if it's a giant corporate Home Depot store) and purchase heirloom vegetable seeds and plant them in your yard? You don't have $100 to spend on this kind of preparation? How about $1000 to purchase long term food storage and Sawyer water filters, so that you're protected in the event of some kind of catastrophe? If you can't come up with $1100 between now and the time that shit hits the fan for real and you think this is "wealthy people" stuff, you may as well vote for Bernie Sanders or Joseph Stalin and then pray for the best.
Lots of us are here to have serious discussions, you know.
If they can't do their job, which is to keep food on the table in their countries, then they should be fired/kicked out from their office.
If they don’t change soon, the people will forcibly remove them. Then it’s going to get all French revolution on the rich again, and that will be bad.
I'm going to take this opportunity to remind everybody that it is our job to keep ourselves fed and taken care of. Delegating that responsibility to government is the beginning of a steep descent into hell.
Yes, I would rather see our government spend money on food security then have that same money wasted on minorities and illegal immigrants, sent to corrupt governments around the world; but, I would rather, instead, that they don't spend any money on anything that the constitution does not prescribe.
No.... government intervention never works...ever...just makes things bad. All they should do is be there for military and courts...
I agree with you mostly, but thr role of government is also to assist the needs of the nation in times of crisis. I think pending global starvation and a looming workd war counts as such a crisis.
Yeah, but most of the wars are their faults, and famines are typically caused by governments putting too much into one basket. Obviously there are some cases from nature which need to be addressed.
Well they are bringing about the crisis and war so ...
It’s spring planting season - right now.
CF industries whichs make amonia-nitate fertilizer has been requesting Biden expedites rail shipments of fertilizers, except he is delaying them.
Canada has the largest landmass capable of producing grains (wheat, rye, oat), yet the bulk of this cropland is dedicated to canola production.
If grains and fertilizer were prioritized -now- both the USA and Canada could over supply the glode with consumable grains and feed, yet both leaders are doing nothing to offest the Russia/Ukraine forthcoming grain shortages.
It’s almost like they want us to all starve to death or something
If being moved from inception towards death represents the natural order; then life represents the resisting chaos within.
Where but towards death can life be led to? Is life following something or resisting being moved towards death?
Death is inevitable, but death by starvation is something most of us would prefer to avoid.
a) not starving (want) vs starving (not want) represents ignorance of hunger (need).
b) STARVE, verb [Greek., to die.] - "to perish; to be destroyed"; therefore STARV (die) -ATION (by action) ignores your position as the reacting form (life) within the enacted flow (inception towards death); which implies the need for adaptation to being moved; hence eating when hungry...not fear towards starvation or hope towards avoiding it.
This hope/fear represents want (suggestion) over need (perception), and the imminent (just two more weeks to flatten the curve) food-shortage represents the utilization of suggestion...ignore what is for what others suggest will be.