So...You Love Your Ethanol and You Love Your Welfare Food Stamps Eh?

Ethanol in the United States means corn. For whatever stupid reason (it has a lot to do with big agra, lobbying, and general greed and stupidity), most of America's ethanol is made from corn.

I've already gotten into how dumb, inefficient, and non-sustainable this is in another post, so I'll just link you to that if you want more info there.

What I'm talking about right now is how corn-based ethanol production in this country is actually going to cause welfare programs to see hard times. Why? Because, once again, government is stupid and never stays under budget.

Corn-based ethanol, all by itself, is expected to raise food prices another 5.1% in 2009. That's besides inflation, higher costs, and more Obama-induced inflation. That 5.1% is the same rise we saw in 2007-08. Hmm...

Now, Obamabots, before you start nagging me about my relentless attacks on him, I'd like to point out that I equally target: G.W. Bush and nearly all elected officials. If you're going to get mad at me for focusing too much on someone for my bad-mouthing, it should be Al Gore.

At any rate, this raise in food prices means that the local food stamp office has to have more money to keep handing out food. About $900 million more. Think that's small change? That's just for one program.

For all of the welfare assistance programs related to food in the nation, this total will be... $5.3 BILLION. Yep, $5.3 billion more in food-related welfare just because of ethanol.

So why are we subsidizing corn-based ethanol so much again? Oh, ya, because Big Agra deserves our money more than the poor family down the street that can't afford groceries and school lunch. I forgot.