Bush explains the global food crisis

Isn't it reassuring to think we have someone so smart running the country?  Bush's comment over the weekend that the food crisis is due to countries like India raising their standard of living has really pissed off the developing world:

"When you start getting wealth, you start demanding better nutrition and better food.  And so demand is high, and that causes the price to go up.

What a moron!  The global food crisis is caused by people in poor countries eating more!  Sometimes I can't decide if he's an asshole or just stupid.  He could take some lessons from this columnist in the Hindustan Times:

"these comments are a brazen admission by the industrialised West that their levels of prosperity are mainly dependent upon the levels of impoverishment and malnutrition in the developing world.  Having plundered for centuries through colonialism, they seek to continue to fatten themselves by a similar plunder through current phase of imperialist globalisation, whose hallmark is the sharp escalation of inequalities"  full column here.

This is going to be excellent fodder for editorial cartoonists all over the world!  I can't wait to see pictures of the US as a bloated overweight giant looking at this average sized kid sitting next to him and telling him he's eating up all the food!  If you see any please leave a link here and I'll be sure to post the ones I find too!

Comments

[mimbreno]

Awesome.