June 22, 2022
Biden pre-emptively blames a coming food shortage on Putin
By Andrea Widburg
We've all seen it: a return to the empty shelves that plagued the first half of 2020, as the lockdowns sent people into a buying panic. The supply chain sort of adjusted to that, but it's happening again, and this time there may not be an adjustment. Apparently, the Biden administration thinks things will get worse, not better, because it sent out a Pentagon spokesman to blame Putin pre-emptively for the coming food shortage.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out why we're starting to see food shortages across America. The last two years have shown that it takes decades to build up a food supply chain that serves a country of 330 million and two years to break it. How was it broken? Let me count the ways (and I'm sure many of you will be able to add to the list):
Have the Executive Branch unilaterally implement policies creating fuel shortages, especially diesel shortages, making fuel impossible to obtain or insanely expensive.
Use lockdowns to enrich massive chain stores while destroying community mom-and-pop stores — the kind people could walk to if they didn't have fuel for their cars.
Use vaccine mandates to shut down shipping; trucking; and, most recently, air traffic.
Use endless handouts of free money to disincentivize seeking employment in the less well-paying sectors of food production and distribution.
Hand responsibility for our transportation sector to an utterly incompetent man solely because he's gay.
Encourage an endless war in the Russia-Ukraine region, which deprives American farmers of fertilizer.
Do nothing to stop the sale of American farmland and processing plants to Chinese companies tied to the Communist Party.
Preside over a baby formula shortage necessitating begging Europe for baby formula...while making sure that illegal aliens pouring over the border have unlimited access to formula.
Express no concern whatsoever about what seems to be an unusual number of food processing plants burning to the ground or being otherwise destroyed.
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