April 01, 2007
Marxism Creates Hunger
Investor's Business Daily places the blame for food shortages in Cuba, North Korea, and Zimbabwe exactly where it belongs, on the heads of the tyrants whose policies created it.
The blame-America-first crowd often zeroes in on U.S. plenty, calling our lack of want 'excess' and our great food productivity an ecological evil.There's been a malevolent new wave of this lately as more news of failed Marxist regimes and the hunger they create comes out.
Cuba's communist dictator Fidel Castro on Thursday denounced the U.S.' production of grain ethanol as 'sinister' and a coming cause of ecological catastrophe and global starvation. Not only would it affect Cuba, which has rationed food since 1962, but 3 billion other people, he said.
Not to be outdone, the United Nations denounced the West for North Korea's new famine, laughably claiming the nuclear-armed state was a victim of bad harvests and a lack of food aid from the stingy West.
Meanwhile, in Zimbabwe, the West is regularly denounced as the culprit for conspiring to keep food off the African nation's shelves even as its offers of genetically modified food aid have been rejected.
Dictator Robert Mugabe's enemy isn't hunger itself, but improved food production from the green revolution, developed in an atmosphere of freedom and capitalism.
By the way, all three Marxist states claim food is a right for all. But the hunger their people suffer is in fact just another monstrous instance of state failure. In all three, private property is outlawed and expropriated.
Read the whole thing here.
Posted by Ziva at April 1, 2007 05:07 PM
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"In fact, it's Castro's dirty secret: The U.S. is Cuba's food lifeline. The U.S. sells $340 million in food a year to Cuba just so its ration books can be worth the paper they're printed on." - IBD
Pretty much says it all.
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at April 1, 2007 10:54 PM
Idiots like Castro and Chavez will continue to blame the United States for their problems while destroying their own countries ability to feed and cloth their people with insane economic policies and I'll continue not caring about what they have to say. Isn't national sovereignty a wonderful thing?
Posted by: Mike.Hunter at April 2, 2007 06:42 AM
I have been following the Mugabee situaction since he took power. This man took the food basket of all Africa, kicked out all the private land owners, and then the country turned into the Dust Bowl of Africa!
That nation fed all of africa and was a prosperous country. What happened was the selfish peasants that were given the land did not know how to cultivate the land.......but hey! They had land right. Out of the hands of the white man.
Ahora se comen cada uno vivo por que no hay comida. This is a sad affair and the political opposition who would win against Mugabee.........he was placed in jail last week. Cono! This guy took a page out of Fidel's handbook.
Posted by: Guajiro_de_Broward at April 2, 2007 09:33 AM
Food is not a right...it is a need. A right is something you are born with and cost no one else for that right, i.e life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Freedom of association is a right as is religion. But food is not a right unless you bought it first or grew it yourself.
Posted by: Tomas Estrada-Palma at April 3, 2007 10:45 PM
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