Our dingbat president blathered on painfully at the UN this morning about several things that have nothing to do with the United States. He wants to tighten Myanmar sanctions — because I guess in the Bizarro World he’s been sucked into, sanctions always work. He blathered on about “tyranny and violence,” “persecution,” “poverty,” — you know, all the things the government he runs has worked to promote the last six years and change. From a foreign policy point of view, it’s old news that we should just ignore anything he has to say unless it’s about the next country he plans to invade and destroy. But he’s always good for laughs on the economics front:
Bush also said he would propose a change in the way the United States offers food aid to Africa. Under Bush’s proposal. the U.S. would purchase crops directly from African farmers, rather than ship food directly from the U.S. That action would help African farmers become more self-sufficient, he said.
“I urge the United States Congress to support this initiative,” Bush said.
George, what happens when US food aid slows or shifts or ends after these farmers you claim to be making self-sufficient have become bloated agricultural enterprises built to sell to the big-spendingest corporation on the face of the earth? How will all their production capacity be used — will its “customers” suddenly have enough money to buy their own food, especially at the prices at which you will have been buying it?
Dumb. Chances are, unfortunately, that Congress is even dumber.
