crock
SDD Junior Member
LET'S DO IT !!!!!
>
> Best plan I've seen in a while. Too bad we don't have any candidates with
> the guts to propose, or the legislature to implement.
>
> Say, with oil at about $120 a barrel and most of the world having food
> shortages, isn't it time the US form an agricultural cartel - like, oh, say:
> OPEC, and do the same to OPEC as they've been doing to us for over 35 years?
> Obviously, food for oil is what I'm suggesting.
>
>
>
> Since OPEC's got a stranglehold on us and have forced this country into a
> recession, WHY don't we use the last export {other than our military} to get
> our money back from 'em? It's simple, China's importing food, Russia's...a
> mess, as is Africa, Europe doesn't have much elasticity to increase
> agricultural exports and Australia's in a drought. South
> America's...disorganized and heavily forested. There's every reason to
> reciprocate OPECs business model when it comes to our agricultural products.
> If OPEC wants to charge us $120 a barrel for oil, OK, but, we'll charge THEM
> $1,200 for a bushel of corn, of wheat, of soybeans, of...anything. In very
> short order places like Dubai will have to stop spending OUR money on
> building islands in the sea and furnishing their villas with golden fixtures
> and have to spend it to feed themselves.
>
>
>
> We could flip our national deficit to a surplus in no time at all. Yep, a
> simple 10:1 formula. It's not like the OPEC countries could survive drinking
> their oil and/or eating their sand. Yep, it's our last piece of leverage and
> it's high time we used it.
>
>
> Obviously, there's no such thing as 'free trade', somebody pays and
> it's been the American working man, woman and families that have been paying
> and paying and paying.
>
>
>
> So, let's turn things around - NOW. Food for oil and money. It's not like
> the deserts of the Persian Gulf can replace the top soil of the American
> Midwest. Well, at least not yet. Before the OPEC countries can develop their
> own hydroponics with desalinized water and feed themselves, we'd better
> realize it's both now or never to use this leverage and - if we don't
> facilitate the means currently at our disposal, we'll all wind up eat'n
> potatoes and using 'em to stuff into our tailpipes to keep the critters from
> nesting in 'em as they sit idle {like the rest of our economy} because we
> can't afford OPEC's price. OPEC's destroying America as sure as they're NOT
> our allies. Food for oil and repatriation of OUR money. Let's see that good
> old green back rise for a change. We CAN do this, that's why we're called
> AmeriCANs.
>
> I got this in an e-mail and thought it interesting enough to see what you thought........
crock
>
>
>
>
> Best plan I've seen in a while. Too bad we don't have any candidates with
> the guts to propose, or the legislature to implement.
>
> Say, with oil at about $120 a barrel and most of the world having food
> shortages, isn't it time the US form an agricultural cartel - like, oh, say:
> OPEC, and do the same to OPEC as they've been doing to us for over 35 years?
> Obviously, food for oil is what I'm suggesting.
>
>
>
> Since OPEC's got a stranglehold on us and have forced this country into a
> recession, WHY don't we use the last export {other than our military} to get
> our money back from 'em? It's simple, China's importing food, Russia's...a
> mess, as is Africa, Europe doesn't have much elasticity to increase
> agricultural exports and Australia's in a drought. South
> America's...disorganized and heavily forested. There's every reason to
> reciprocate OPECs business model when it comes to our agricultural products.
> If OPEC wants to charge us $120 a barrel for oil, OK, but, we'll charge THEM
> $1,200 for a bushel of corn, of wheat, of soybeans, of...anything. In very
> short order places like Dubai will have to stop spending OUR money on
> building islands in the sea and furnishing their villas with golden fixtures
> and have to spend it to feed themselves.
>
>
>
> We could flip our national deficit to a surplus in no time at all. Yep, a
> simple 10:1 formula. It's not like the OPEC countries could survive drinking
> their oil and/or eating their sand. Yep, it's our last piece of leverage and
> it's high time we used it.
>
>
> Obviously, there's no such thing as 'free trade', somebody pays and
> it's been the American working man, woman and families that have been paying
> and paying and paying.
>
>
>
> So, let's turn things around - NOW. Food for oil and money. It's not like
> the deserts of the Persian Gulf can replace the top soil of the American
> Midwest. Well, at least not yet. Before the OPEC countries can develop their
> own hydroponics with desalinized water and feed themselves, we'd better
> realize it's both now or never to use this leverage and - if we don't
> facilitate the means currently at our disposal, we'll all wind up eat'n
> potatoes and using 'em to stuff into our tailpipes to keep the critters from
> nesting in 'em as they sit idle {like the rest of our economy} because we
> can't afford OPEC's price. OPEC's destroying America as sure as they're NOT
> our allies. Food for oil and repatriation of OUR money. Let's see that good
> old green back rise for a change. We CAN do this, that's why we're called
> AmeriCANs.
>
> I got this in an e-mail and thought it interesting enough to see what you thought........
crock
>
>
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