Bush League Diplomacy
Via Skewz and willvanhorn.
'Eat Your Words, Mr. Bush!'
"These comments are brazen admissions by the industrialized West that their levels of prosperity are dependent on poverty and malnutrition in the developing world."
By Sitaram Yechury
May 8, 2008
India - Hindustan Times - Original Article (English)
President Bush: Inciting much of the world's population against himself ...
WHITE HOUSE VIDEO: In Missiouri, President Bush discusses energy, food; India comments at 00:40:00, May 2, 01:02:57
George W. Bush’s proclivity to tread on the absurd is amazing. Recently, he sought to blame the Indian people for the global food crisis by saying, “[India’s] middle-class is bigger than our entire population ... When you start getting wealth, you demand better food ... and prices ... go up.”
Not false, but considering our comparative standards of living and counterproductive ethanol incentives, shows a lot of gall.
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I've been trying to find out how much the ethanol incentives are, but all I have found so far are figures that mix actual incentives in the same list with tax breaks.
The starving person in India is not really affected by them, however, as the feed corn that gets the incentives is not fed to humans.
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