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		<title>By: Sawgunner</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sawgunner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 03:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Time grew scarce the days grew cold
A loaf of bread would buy a bag of gold
I wish we&#039;d all been ready..
-lyrics by the late Larry Norman</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Time grew scarce the days grew cold<br />
A loaf of bread would buy a bag of gold<br />
I wish we&#8217;d all been ready..<br />
-lyrics by the late Larry Norman
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		<title>By: gnarley</title>
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		<dc:creator>gnarley</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 02:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Andree, Isaiah 5:31 ?  My tranlaltion only has 50 verses in Isaiah 5.

gil</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Andree, Isaiah 5:31 ?  My tranlaltion only has 50 verses in Isaiah 5.</p>
<p>gil
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		<title>By: llama</title>
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		<dc:creator>llama</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 18:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The farm is and should be the farmers 401 k - if they are really farmers.  It&#039;s their business and they are self employed.  They business will only succeed by what the farmer does and does not do - just like any business owner.  All the rules of capitalism, markets, people and business apply and you have to be real good to win in the end.

Chances are good you will starve - even as a farmer but it&#039;s better than owning a restaurant where you are almost guaranteed to fail and be hungry :-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The farm is and should be the farmers 401 k &#8211; if they are really farmers.  It&#8217;s their business and they are self employed.  They business will only succeed by what the farmer does and does not do &#8211; just like any business owner.  All the rules of capitalism, markets, people and business apply and you have to be real good to win in the end.</p>
<p>Chances are good you will starve &#8211; even as a farmer but it&#8217;s better than owning a restaurant where you are almost guaranteed to fail and be hungry <img src='http://online.worldmag.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' />
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		<title>By: efarmer.ny</title>
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		<dc:creator>efarmer.ny</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 17:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Andree neglected to mention the water crisis that pits cities against farmers, continuing drought conditions in parts of the US, the potential negative impact of genetically modified organisms released on the environment, developers buying farmland for housing, wheat rust spreading through crops over seas, etc.

I would not be surprised if these are only late term morning sickness signs. The birth pains are yet to come. Which is why I have been investing in my farm instead of a 401k for the past several years.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Andree neglected to mention the water crisis that pits cities against farmers, continuing drought conditions in parts of the US, the potential negative impact of genetically modified organisms released on the environment, developers buying farmland for housing, wheat rust spreading through crops over seas, etc.</p>
<p>I would not be surprised if these are only late term morning sickness signs. The birth pains are yet to come. Which is why I have been investing in my farm instead of a 401k for the past several years.
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		<title>By: NJLawyer</title>
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		<dc:creator>NJLawyer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 13:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Can&#039;t improve on Llama&#039;s advice regarding our temporal world.  If only it would be read around the country.  If only someone would say it outloud.

I was happy to read that the Afghans are planting food rather than poppies. You never know, this could be the thing that causes the Muslims to see the deficiencies in their own culture. We just don&#039;t know. And you also never know -- maybe this will turn some people to realize the eternal truths in our own culture.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Can&#8217;t improve on Llama&#8217;s advice regarding our temporal world.  If only it would be read around the country.  If only someone would say it outloud.</p>
<p>I was happy to read that the Afghans are planting food rather than poppies. You never know, this could be the thing that causes the Muslims to see the deficiencies in their own culture. We just don&#8217;t know. And you also never know &#8212; maybe this will turn some people to realize the eternal truths in our own culture.
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		<title>By: llama</title>
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		<dc:creator>llama</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 13:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If you are ready you don&#039;t ponder.  Me, I&#039;m scared to death :-)

All of the bad things listed in the post are effecting the poor people of the world.  The government if Egypt tried to raise the price of a loaf of bread by doubling the price from 1 penny to 2 at government owned bakeries which exist to produce low cost government subsidized bread for poor people so they do not riot, not because they would starve.

What happened is that the government owned bakeries, Socialists should take note as they try to nationalize the US oil industry, had to sell their bread a mandated 1 cent.  But the price of wheat exploded.  So rather than produce 1 cent bread and take a loss, local operators of the government bakeries saw a way to make some illegal money by selling their wheat they received from the government at subsidized prices, to privately owned bakeries at at what would be below exploding market rates.

SO the government owned bakeries not only doubled the price of bread but they also stopped making most of it causing huge shortages.  The poor people rioted, the government has=d to send in government troops to actually make the bread and they had to roll back the price increase causing the national deficit to skyrocket.  Egypt is the largest importer of wheat in the world and they couldn&#039;t even pass along their tiny 1 cent price increase for bread.

Socialists should take note.  Government intervention in any good or service is totally and completely wrong and insane - period.  Listen to the most famous democrat Warren Buffet when he tells you piggies that there is no good or service that can be delivered better than private enterprise for any reason period.

Also note what socialism always creates.  It creates a small amount of very rich and privileged and a large number of very poor with nothing in between - just like Egypt and all the other places where food riots are happening in the world

Socialism is the worst thing since sliced bread and never forget it.  Democrats are socialsists - never trust them with your life or money.  Capitalism remains the only and best best way to prosperity without question.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you are ready you don&#8217;t ponder.  Me, I&#8217;m scared to death <img src='http://online.worldmag.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>All of the bad things listed in the post are effecting the poor people of the world.  The government if Egypt tried to raise the price of a loaf of bread by doubling the price from 1 penny to 2 at government owned bakeries which exist to produce low cost government subsidized bread for poor people so they do not riot, not because they would starve.</p>
<p>What happened is that the government owned bakeries, Socialists should take note as they try to nationalize the US oil industry, had to sell their bread a mandated 1 cent.  But the price of wheat exploded.  So rather than produce 1 cent bread and take a loss, local operators of the government bakeries saw a way to make some illegal money by selling their wheat they received from the government at subsidized prices, to privately owned bakeries at at what would be below exploding market rates.</p>
<p>SO the government owned bakeries not only doubled the price of bread but they also stopped making most of it causing huge shortages.  The poor people rioted, the government has=d to send in government troops to actually make the bread and they had to roll back the price increase causing the national deficit to skyrocket.  Egypt is the largest importer of wheat in the world and they couldn&#8217;t even pass along their tiny 1 cent price increase for bread.</p>
<p>Socialists should take note.  Government intervention in any good or service is totally and completely wrong and insane &#8211; period.  Listen to the most famous democrat Warren Buffet when he tells you piggies that there is no good or service that can be delivered better than private enterprise for any reason period.</p>
<p>Also note what socialism always creates.  It creates a small amount of very rich and privileged and a large number of very poor with nothing in between &#8211; just like Egypt and all the other places where food riots are happening in the world</p>
<p>Socialism is the worst thing since sliced bread and never forget it.  Democrats are socialsists &#8211; never trust them with your life or money.  Capitalism remains the only and best best way to prosperity without question.
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		<title>By: klasko</title>
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		<dc:creator>klasko</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 13:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>oops - that&#039;s myself.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>oops &#8211; that&#8217;s myself.
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		<title>By: klasko</title>
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		<dc:creator>klasko</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 13:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve begun to ponder such things muself.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve begun to ponder such things muself.
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