MRJ said:Can anyone find the facts on what percent of consumer income food purchases required AT THAT TIME?
It might be interesting to contrast it with the 9% or so required today in the USA to purchase our food.
Obviously, politics played a strong hand in the situation.
Nixon putting the ceiling on beef prices probably caused my Dad to have his first heart attack, though it was a 'silent' one, not known till some years later when the scars from a previous attack were observed after he had his second one. The very idea that a REPUBLICAN would do something so stupid was repugnant to him, to say the least.
MRJ
About that time Earl Butz told farmers to farm fence row to fence row and foreign markets would be developed. We know what happened then.
MRJ said:Actually he lived on until 1986!
Unlike you, he would applaud the fact that GWB is doing his best, despite efforts of the liberals, Repub. and Dem. alike, to keep the terrorist backing Imams from establishing their power base in Iraq in order to control the oil to fund their take-over of the world and 'converting' everyone to their extremist version of Islam.
MRJ
Sandhusker said:MRJ said:Actually he lived on until 1986!
Unlike you, he would applaud the fact that GWB is doing his best, despite efforts of the liberals, Repub. and Dem. alike, to keep the terrorist backing Imams from establishing their power base in Iraq in order to control the oil to fund their take-over of the world and 'converting' everyone to their extremist version of Islam.
MRJ
If you want to get technical, W. created the problem with the Imams in Iraq. They were minding their Ps & Qs under Saddam, only when he went in and "did his best" did they become a problem. But, hey, that's another issue.
Sandhusker said:MRJ said:Actually he lived on until 1986!
Unlike you, he would applaud the fact that GWB is doing his best, despite efforts of the liberals, Repub. and Dem. alike, to keep the terrorist backing Imams from establishing their power base in Iraq in order to control the oil to fund their take-over of the world and 'converting' everyone to their extremist version of Islam.
MRJ
W. created the problem with the Imams in Iraq. They were minding their Ps & Qs under Saddam. Only when he went in and "did his best" did they become a problem. But, hey, that's another issue.
Clarencen said:Then we had to find a way to take it out of crop production again,...
RobertMac said:Clarencen said:Then we had to find a way to take it out of crop production again,...
Jimmy Carter had no problem doing that with the Russian grain embargo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!