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The foodchain is breaking down all along the line. 

 Thousand of farmers cannot last "another season" to 

 produce a crop. The processing phase is marked by 

 sweatshop production, e.g. TB in midwest packing houses. 

 Independent processors and grocers are being bankrupted. 



And people are not able to eat. Unemployment is 

 running at over 17%. There are 26 million Americans on food 

 stamps — not counting the millions more who need food aid, 

 but are not signed up. 



These few facts describe the problem. But what do the 

 opinion-makers from Goldman Sachs, or Cargill or Stanford 

 University's "Vision 2000" tell you? They demand such 

 things as: 



♦"Enterprise Zones" — where cheap wages, and low level 

 infrastructure are supposed to solve economic decline, 

 e.g. "Animal Enterprise Zones" have just been approved in 

 Iowa. However, the experience of the model "Enterprise 

 Zones" — the maquiladoras, along the U.S. -Mexico border has 

 brought cholera to the people in the Rio Grande River 

 Basin, as Chairman de la Garza has reason to know. 



"Global market share" is another goal you are 

 supposed to support. Congress has been pressured to 

 approve low prices to the farmer, and export subsidies to 

 Cargill, ADM, Continental, Louis Dreyfus and the few other 

 select companies dominating food trade in the name of 

 making the U.S. "export competitive." But look at the 

 world: there is no market to share. The world depression 

 is obliterating national economies. The nations of the 

 former Soviet bloc are suffering; they need food relief 

 and cannot pay. Africa is being denied food, and the means 

 to produce food, on the scale of genocide. In the course 

 of the collapse, the pre-conditions of World War III are 

 in the making. 



2) EMERGENCY FINANCIAL MEASURES. What is in order is 

 to declare a state of economic emergency, and take the 

 financial and production measures needed for a real 

 recovery. Foremost is that Congress must end the private 

 operations of the Federal Reserve, and restore control 

 over money and credit — in effect, nationalize the Federal 

 Reserve. We must expand the industrial, agricultural and 

 infrastructure sectors, not the financial sector. 



At present, the Federal Reserve System is using its 

 discounting procedure to provide interest rate spreads, 

 and other aid to a select number of otherwise bankrupt 

 banks and financial entities. New York banks and others 

 borrow from the Fed at the level of 3% interest, then turn 

 around and loan that fiat money at 4-8% to the Federal 

 government for Federal paper. So the Federal government is 

 going deeper and deeper into debt to the commercial 

 banking system, i.e. the Fed. 



This is the core of the financial crisis. When you 

 are told to cut the budget deficit, and cut the debt, that 



is just a prescription for continuing the disastrous 

 regime of the Federal Reserve for a little while longer. 

 Meantime, productive activity is starved for credit. 



