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| V-for-Vendicar... |
 Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 11:43 pm |
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"Tunderbar" <tdcomeau at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote
Quote: I only know of grain being stockpiled by governments, especially
China. What capitalists exactly are stockpiling these large amounts of
grains?
Anyone who owns stocks in grain commodities. Virtually none of it is
owned by governments. In fact governments purchase grain on the open market
when they need it. Governments generally have no stockpiles of their own.
Stockpiles in the U.S. are on the order of 50 million bushels, and total
about 139 million tonnes world wide.
Now the question.
If there is famine as the KKKonservatives have claimed, and since there is
139 million tonnes of grain available, why are Capitalists chosing to
perpetuate famine by refusing to sell the grain to those who are starving at
a price they can afford? |
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