President Clinton wants to make the United States dependent on other nations for its food. If this happens, the United States will be starved into submission.
Several things have happened during the Clinton years that lend to this belief.
The gasoline additive, MTBE, which was approved by Carol Browner, Clinton's appointee to head the EPA, has contaminated almost 90% of well water in the United States. MTBE causes cancer. The costs of cleaning up MTBE are staggering. Such an effort could bankrupt the United States. In addition, due to NAFTA, other countries can force the United States to continue using MTBE, even though it will make American farmland unusable. Currently, Canada is suing California for hundreds of millions because California is trying to stop using MTBE, and Canada manufacturers MTBE.
Add this information to a number of other articles that are on this webpage, and it is obvious that a plan is in effect to make the United States dependent on other countries for food.
The moment this happens, The United States ceases to exist as we know it.
The president suggested that the world's rich countries should end subsidies to their farmers and instead buy food from the Third World.
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He also said that "the wealthiest countries should end our agricultural subsidies" and buy food instead from Third World farmers who can produce it "more cheaply than we." That suggestion drew a gulp from Blair, seated just behind the president, because Britain and other European countries heavily subsidize their farms. But an end to the multibillion-dollar subsidy program in the United States would wreak havoc in American farm states as well.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7247-2000Dec14.html
Clinton Urges U.S., Other Rich Nations to Help Poor
By T.R. Reid
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, December 15, 2000; Page A33
COVENTRY, England, Dec. 14 –– In a valedictory assessment of American foreign policy in the age of globalization, President Clinton today offered an expansive prescription for how the United States might help close the gap between rich and poor nations, including some stiff medicine his successor may reject.
The president suggested that the world's rich countries should end subsidies to their farmers and instead buy food from the Third World. Wealthy nations should spend billions of dollars more each year to fight infectious disease abroad, he said, and drastically cut industrial emissions to deal with "the fact" of global warming.
This activist program was set out as the president ended a bittersweet tour of the British Isles. The last day of his last scheduled overseas trip as president found Clinton, his wife Hillary Rodham Clinton and their daughter Chelsea in a nostalgic mood. Everywhere he went, he noted that this was "my final journey here as president."
As president, Clinton stopped by Buckingham Palace for a spot of tea with Queen Elizabeth II. As tourist, he strolled hand in hand with his wife past trees decorated for the holidays in Hyde Park, then did some Christmas shopping on London's Portobello Road.
He stopped for a half-pint of organic lager at a local pub, sipping it by the fireplace because the electricity had failed just before his arrival. When his fellow customers groused about the power outage--a surprisingly common occurrence in this wealthy country--Clinton said he'd take the heat: "Feel free to blame me. In America they blame me when it rains."
The president was obviously exhausted. Having just spent two emotional days barnstorming through Ireland, a place he obviously loves, he stayed up late Wednesday with British Prime Minister Tony Blair to watch President-elect Bush's speech to the nation--an address that took place at 3 a.m. London time.
This afternoon, in a speech here at the University of Warwick, the president presented what the White House called a "new development agenda for the 21st century." His plan for an American "response to globalization" was designed to bookend a speech he gave in Nebraska last week on more traditional foreign policy concerns. In both talks, Clinton laid out a busy agenda that he said was appropriate for the world's only "military superpower and economic superpower."
Today he said an activist U.S. role was just as necessary in economic development. He called for an "accelerated campaign against global poverty." Among other things, he said, technologically advanced countries have an obligation to overcome any "digital divide" that leaves the Third World lacking in wealth-creating computer technology.
He also said that "the wealthiest countries should end our agricultural subsidies" and buy food instead from Third World farmers who can produce it "more cheaply than we." That suggestion drew a gulp from Blair, seated just behind the president, because Britain and other European countries heavily subsidize their farms. But an end to the multibillion-dollar subsidy program in the United States would wreak havoc in American farm states as well.
Clinton urged stronger steps by rich nations to combat the threat of global warming, which he called "a big deal." Clinton said it is "a lie" to suggest that industrial countries would lose wealth if they reduce industrial emissions to deal with warming. Many environmentalists blamed the United States for the collapse of negotiations in The Hague last month that were aimed at reducing global warming.
The problem for Clinton is that his successor, George W. Bush, seems unlikely to take much of the advice. On the campaign trail, Bush called for the United States to take a "humble" stance, reducing its commitment and spending around the world, and he expressed doubt that global warming is real.
Clinton's speech was about the future, but he spent much of his tour here reflecting happily on the past eight years. Everywhere he went in Britain and Ireland, politicians, pundits and people praised him, and the president clearly loved it.
As Clinton was walking along Portobello Road today, a man shouted to him: "You should run again!" The president smiled, opened his arms in a gesture of futility and stood there on the London sidewalk, contemplating the idea for a long, wistful moment.
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