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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (763752)	7/23/2007 2:39:55 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Shorty, are you suggesting that corn (the most heavily subsidized crop in America) has edged out wheat (second most subsidized crop) in plantings? And that that has driven up the real cost of bread over the preceding eight years? (Only... the acreage under planting for wheat --- the SECOND most heavily subsidized crop in America --- is ALSO at record highs, same as with corn!) Add that to the fact that corn and wheat are not necessarily directly substitutable plantings in many parts of the country, due to differing climatic requirements (the 'corn belt' and the 'wheat belt' are not geographically the same...), and I doubt that corn prices have all that direct an impact on bread prices..... Certainly not as much as several other things that have already been named (for example: price of credit, price of fuel, price of land, generalized embedded inflation rate in the economy, import price competition, etc., etc.) (Now, as far as your comment to 'think boy'(s), that seems quite unseemly to me --- and I'd prefer it if you not mention such things to me, shorty, regardless of what your life is like. :-) PS --- this marks the THIRD POST you have made in which you CONTINUE TO DODGE the request to explain, or provide any rationale/logic/or proof for your assertion that people talking about 'global warming' are responsible for the increases in the cost of bread --- so I will assume that you have now abandoned that ridiculous assertion. Good!