Beer in the Headlights

Al Gore doesn't care about black people.

As the United Nations food summit draws to a close in Rome, David Loyn reports on the conflicting agendas of the USA and African countries.

Basically Africa wants more free food from the US.

We here in the US are producing less food because moron legislators engaged in a vote buying scheme by mandating ethanol use. Robert Mugabe transformed Zimbabwe from a thriving agricultural producer to a pauper of a nation. These factors, among others, are causing food shortages and price increases.

It's not just Africa suffering from America's agricultural negligence. Mexico's got some tortilla turmoil. And of course the good old US of A is to blame:

Last year, tens of thousands of people marched in protest at similar price rises for tortillas. People were angry and there were scuffles.

Many blamed American corn farmers for diverting their crops away to produce bio-fuels.

What I've learned from both articles is that the United States is bad. Corrupt and impoverished Third World nations depend on American farmers and tax payers to feed their people. With rising energy prices and more crop land diverted to bio fuels it costs more to feed the people that depend on the hard work and affluence of Americans.

Somehow, some way this is all George Bush's fault.