Coming to a mall near you: Food Riots

Yes, folks, none other than the Wall Street Journal suggests that Americans begin stockpiling food. As oil companies, unhappy with last year's record profits, continue to gouge the public for gasoline, food prices climb. And I have trouble feeling your pain because I am unemployed. Rice, a cheap staple for all of us, is being rationed at Wall-Mart. Eggs are up 30% and as raw materials increase, there is no end in sight. We can blame the demand for ethanol or we can place the blame squarely on the shoulders of this miserable excuse for a government, which does not care if you starve in dark of an unheated house. Provided you still have a roof over our head. We are spending billions of dollars on our ill-fated occupation of Iraq, we are enriching the already over-filled pockets of every single one of Bush's cronies and we are now facing the inability to purchase a decent meal. Let's extend this: If you cannot afford to buy staples to cook and eat in your own home, you will not be able to afford eating out, when people stop eating out, restaurants close, when restaurants close, people become unemployed. And we won't even touch the service industries that will be adversely effected by restaurant closing. But here's the good news, when you get your $600 some time this summer, you may be able to afford a pound of potatoes.