Obama's Agriculture Department wants to convert this farmland to forest to stem global warming. Will it work?
I could write to you tonight about the disaster that is the Obama national security, but you already know that. Even some of you liberals are beginning to recognize that. I could write tonight about the liberal Congressman Barney Frank who was one of six Democrats responsible for the banking crisis who just drafted a bill that would give bankers a whopping $4,000,000,000,000.00. but the incompetence and machinations of Barney wouldn’t surprise you. Then again, I could write tonight about the $3.8 billion that the Obama Treasury is about to give to GMAC, the financial arm of GM. Yes, the GM who went bankrupt and that is now owned by the government and the unions… but that would only get you upset thinking why we continue to throw money down a rat hole.
Well, tonight I want to write about your stomach and how liberals are about to make it more expensive to feed it. We all remember how liberals pushed through legislation that rewarded farmer who grew corn that could be converted to ethanol in lieu of cattle feed, barley, oats, wheat, etc. causing prices of those commodities to rise…. well, in an effort to save the planet from global warming and control that even pollutant that our bodies naturally blow out, CO2, Obama’s Agriculture Department wants to pay farmers to turn their farms into forest. Yes, you read it right, liberals have now concluded that we should turn farms into forest so that there will be more trees to absorb that awful pollutant CO2.
Now I know some of you think I’m making this up and others want to dismiss this as hyperbole, but, in fact, this is in the climate bill passed by the House and supported by Obama. Here, read this from the Washington Times:
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has ordered his staff to revise a computerized forecasting model that showed that climate legislation supported by President Obama would make planting trees more lucrative than producing food.
The latest Agriculture Department economic-impact study of the climate bill, which passed the House this summer, found that the legislation would profit farmers in the long term. But those profits would come mostly from higher crop prices as a result of the legislation’s incentives to plant more forests and thus reduce the amount of land devoted to food-producing agriculture.
According to the economic model used by the department and the Environmental Protection Agency, the legislation would give landowners incentives to convert up to 59 million acres of farmland into forests over the next 40 years. The reason: Trees clean the air of heat-trapping gases better than farming does.
Mr. Vilsack, in a little-noticed statement issued with the report earlier this month, said the department’s forecasts “have caused considerable concern” among farmers and ranchers… continued here if your blood pressure can handle it.
Basically, the latest cockamamie idea from this liberal Congress is to plant trees on farms that would normally grow food for our survival, because it just might reduce CO2 which is hypothesized to cause global warming. Oh, but it gets better than that. The Secretary of Agriculture wants the models that concluded that food prices would increase to be “reviewed” and “updated”. Let me make it simple, he’s wants them to fudge the numbers to show that you can convert 59 million acres of farmland into a forest and have no real impact on the price of food.
Mr. Vilsack said he has directed his chief economist to work with the EPA to “undertake a review of the assumptions in the FASOM model, to update the model and to develop options on how best to avoid unintended consequences for agriculture that might result from climate change legislation.”
Do these people have the slightest clue about micro and macro economics? Do they have just the slightest clue about how supply and demand work? Do they not realize that if you wipe out our farmland you’ll reduce the supply of food and drive up the cost? Do they understand how higher food prices will hurt those who are already struggling to make ends meet– actually, I think they do. The more people who are hurting and struggling the more who will become slaves to the government, reliant on Big Brother rather than themselves. When will some voters finally wake up.
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