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IT WAS A FATEFUL DECISION - PART I
IT WAS A FATEFUL DECSION. -- The Ascent, Decent And Resurrection Of America’s Farms By Jim Miller
Part I - The Ascendancy Of Global Farm Colonization
Year: 2012 Place: The Globe Event: Passage of the Federal Aid to Cities and Counties Act Perpetrators: Congress, the President, Fortune 100 agricorps, ag chemical industries and the Republican Party Victims: Over 4 million small farm and ranch owners and family members Collateral damage: Local business and consumers Winners: Executives and shareholders of the Fortune 100 agricorps and ag chemical industries.
The election of 2012 had been the turning point for the Republican Party. John Kerry had termed out of office after being re-elected in 2008. Jeb Bush’s campaign for the Presidency had been carefully crafted and well financed, starting with the Kerry landslide victory in 2004 and accelerated after the Democratic take-over of Congress in 2008.
Kerry and the Democratic machinery were not able to stem to slow, downward slide of real net personal income caused by exorbitant Middle East oil prices, the continual rise in prices of consumer goods and services, and the “provertiziation” of America’s middle class. The Federal debt was now 24 trillion and growing at the rate of ten million a day. Both parties had used the federal money machine to buy votes and pay patronage to their respective supporters. The Republicans had “lowered taxes” without fear of repercussions since no one had to “pay” for the tax cut. The Democrats hoisted their social welfare programs by using the “free” money generated by the U. S. Mint printing presses and the Federal Reserve debt devices.
The global agri-conglomerates had been busy for decades preparing for the day that the plug could be pulled on American agriculture. The “Food Club”, as it was known among the players, had bought cheap land in many poverty countries: Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, China, Central Africa and South America. The countries were picked also because of the abundant, low cost, poverty level, compliant labor. Over the past 20 years, the agri-conglomerates had purchased local, state and national officials, obtain favorable legislation exempting them from permits and environmental laws and import/export restrictions.
They had also prepared the land and warehoused millions of tons of pesticides, herbicides, hormones and GMO seeds in preparation for the cheapest production of food and fiber possible.
Their planning included the elimination of competition in the United States by the repeal of NAFTA which took out Canada and Mexico. They purchased U. S. crop land at bank foreclosures and bankruptcies. Over 300 hundred American farmers left the land each week. Auction houses generated millions of dollars of sales of both land and equipment at rock-bottom prices. Most of the equipment was boxed in cargo containers and shipped to the new growing grounds in the colonies.
The crop land purchased by the agri-conglomerates was later re-sold for industrial, residential and commercial users. Wal-Mart was one of the biggest land buyers for new stores and warehouses. Wal-Mart had also joined the global agri-conglomerates to become even more vertically integrated.
The coup d’ gras was the passage of the Federal Aid to Cities and Counties Act. This act was touted as the corner stone by fiscal conservatives to help the metropolitan areas weather the economic storms mounting in and around them. The act provided for repositing of all farm subsidies to welfare and education in the more densely populated (voter rich) metro cities and counties.
Beginning 2005, the Democrats had been pushing for more federal dollars going to the “inner cities and counties” as a way of cadging votes from those areas. The Republicans resisted until they realized they could steal the issue from the Democrats, fund the payments with more national debt and garner the votes of the welfare and education constituents. From 2010 on, it was a race between the Democrats and the Republicans as to who could spend the most on education and welfare – two huge voting blocs populated by aggressive welfare and education rights organizations.
The tactic was needed to stem the continual slide of middle income earners into the poverty, caused largely by the greatly accelerated devaluation of the dollar, higher oil prices and the higher cost of living of a population sick with consumeritis. It was working.
The farming block was so weak and shrunken that it could not deliver the votes necessary to block enactment of the Aid to Cities and Counties Act. Besides, what was taken from the rural farmer was given back to the rural communities in the form of welfare checks and educational subsidies – free money – no work required, no capital risked and no bank loans to pay back.
The global colonization Food Club plan was in place by 2012. Huge tracks of land in the agricorps’ “colonies” were ready for crops, some of which had been in production for several years. They created enormous stockpiles of food and fiber. This early production helped the local mangers to organize the labor pools and gain production experience.
The agricorps could now deliver twice the amount of food and fiber at one-tenth the cost of doing so in the U. S. and Canada and one-fifth the cost in Mexico. The welfare and educational subsidies would fuel high prices in the U. S. Enormous profits lay ahead.
When the American farms were gone, the agricorps would have a strangle hold on food and fiber needed by the American public. With NAFTA gone, imports from Canada and Mexico would not pose any threat to the economic rape of the American public.
The planning among the top echelon of agricorps proceeded smoothly since 2004. These plans were hatched in the private clubs, golf courses, resorts, seminars, yachts, and private planes of the wealthiest companies. No paper or digital trail was left to be uncovered by subsequent investigators. The “food club” as it was known, had pushed their secret agenda on the members of Congress who, in exchange for “campaign contributions”, readily passed the Aid to Cities and Counties Act. President John Kerry was only too happy to sign the act as a favor to his metro voters.
It was a fateful decision.
Fateful-I.doc
Part I - The Ascendancy Of Global Farm Colonization
Year: 2012 Place: The Globe Event: Passage of the Federal Aid to Cities and Counties Act Perpetrators: Congress, the President, Fortune 100 agricorps, ag chemical industries and the Republican Party Victims: Over 4 million small farm and ranch owners and family members Collateral damage: Local business and consumers Winners: Executives and shareholders of the Fortune 100 agricorps and ag chemical industries.
The election of 2012 had been the turning point for the Republican Party. John Kerry had termed out of office after being re-elected in 2008. Jeb Bush’s campaign for the Presidency had been carefully crafted and well financed, starting with the Kerry landslide victory in 2004 and accelerated after the Democratic take-over of Congress in 2008.
Kerry and the Democratic machinery were not able to stem to slow, downward slide of real net personal income caused by exorbitant Middle East oil prices, the continual rise in prices of consumer goods and services, and the “provertiziation” of America’s middle class. The Federal debt was now 24 trillion and growing at the rate of ten million a day. Both parties had used the federal money machine to buy votes and pay patronage to their respective supporters. The Republicans had “lowered taxes” without fear of repercussions since no one had to “pay” for the tax cut. The Democrats hoisted their social welfare programs by using the “free” money generated by the U. S. Mint printing presses and the Federal Reserve debt devices.
The global agri-conglomerates had been busy for decades preparing for the day that the plug could be pulled on American agriculture. The “Food Club”, as it was known among the players, had bought cheap land in many poverty countries: Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, China, Central Africa and South America. The countries were picked also because of the abundant, low cost, poverty level, compliant labor. Over the past 20 years, the agri-conglomerates had purchased local, state and national officials, obtain favorable legislation exempting them from permits and environmental laws and import/export restrictions.
They had also prepared the land and warehoused millions of tons of pesticides, herbicides, hormones and GMO seeds in preparation for the cheapest production of food and fiber possible.
Their planning included the elimination of competition in the United States by the repeal of NAFTA which took out Canada and Mexico. They purchased U. S. crop land at bank foreclosures and bankruptcies. Over 300 hundred American farmers left the land each week. Auction houses generated millions of dollars of sales of both land and equipment at rock-bottom prices. Most of the equipment was boxed in cargo containers and shipped to the new growing grounds in the colonies.
The crop land purchased by the agri-conglomerates was later re-sold for industrial, residential and commercial users. Wal-Mart was one of the biggest land buyers for new stores and warehouses. Wal-Mart had also joined the global agri-conglomerates to become even more vertically integrated.
The coup d’ gras was the passage of the Federal Aid to Cities and Counties Act. This act was touted as the corner stone by fiscal conservatives to help the metropolitan areas weather the economic storms mounting in and around them. The act provided for repositing of all farm subsidies to welfare and education in the more densely populated (voter rich) metro cities and counties.
Beginning 2005, the Democrats had been pushing for more federal dollars going to the “inner cities and counties” as a way of cadging votes from those areas. The Republicans resisted until they realized they could steal the issue from the Democrats, fund the payments with more national debt and garner the votes of the welfare and education constituents. From 2010 on, it was a race between the Democrats and the Republicans as to who could spend the most on education and welfare – two huge voting blocs populated by aggressive welfare and education rights organizations.
The tactic was needed to stem the continual slide of middle income earners into the poverty, caused largely by the greatly accelerated devaluation of the dollar, higher oil prices and the higher cost of living of a population sick with consumeritis. It was working.
The farming block was so weak and shrunken that it could not deliver the votes necessary to block enactment of the Aid to Cities and Counties Act. Besides, what was taken from the rural farmer was given back to the rural communities in the form of welfare checks and educational subsidies – free money – no work required, no capital risked and no bank loans to pay back.
The global colonization Food Club plan was in place by 2012. Huge tracks of land in the agricorps’ “colonies” were ready for crops, some of which had been in production for several years. They created enormous stockpiles of food and fiber. This early production helped the local mangers to organize the labor pools and gain production experience.
The agricorps could now deliver twice the amount of food and fiber at one-tenth the cost of doing so in the U. S. and Canada and one-fifth the cost in Mexico. The welfare and educational subsidies would fuel high prices in the U. S. Enormous profits lay ahead.
When the American farms were gone, the agricorps would have a strangle hold on food and fiber needed by the American public. With NAFTA gone, imports from Canada and Mexico would not pose any threat to the economic rape of the American public.
The planning among the top echelon of agricorps proceeded smoothly since 2004. These plans were hatched in the private clubs, golf courses, resorts, seminars, yachts, and private planes of the wealthiest companies. No paper or digital trail was left to be uncovered by subsequent investigators. The “food club” as it was known, had pushed their secret agenda on the members of Congress who, in exchange for “campaign contributions”, readily passed the Aid to Cities and Counties Act. President John Kerry was only too happy to sign the act as a favor to his metro voters.
It was a fateful decision.
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