salacious primitive tries to panic the primitives; cooler heads prevail

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3193234

Oh my.

The salacious primitive:

Selatius  (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-22-08 03:37 PM
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FOOD RATIONING has finally come to America. NY, New England, West Coast affected.
   
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Many parts of America, long considered the breadbasket of the world, are now confronting a once unthinkable phenomenon: food rationing.

Major retailers in New York, in areas of New England, and on the West Coast are limiting purchases of flour, rice, and cooking oil as demand outstrips supply. There are also anecdotal reports that some consumers are hoarding grain stocks.

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An employee at the Costco store in Queens said there were no restrictions on rice buying, but limits were being imposed on purchases of oil and flour. Internet postings attributed some of the shortage at the retail level to bakery owners who flocked to warehouse stores when the price of flour from commercial suppliers doubled.

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Mr. Rawles said the spot shortages seemed to be most frequent in the Northeast and all the way along the West Coast. He said he had heard reports of buying limits at Sam’s Club warehouses, which are owned by Wal-Mart Stores, but a spokesman for the company, Kory Lundberg, said he was not aware of any shortages or limits.

An anonymous high-tech professional writing on an investment Web site, Seeking Alpha, said he recently bought 10 50-pound bags of rice at Costco. “I am concerned that when the news of rice shortage spreads, there will be panic buying and the shelves will be empty in no time. I do not intend to cause a panic, and I am not speculating on rice to make profit. I am just hoarding some for my own consumption,” he wrote.

http://nysun.com/news/food-rationing-confronts-breadbas...

This in the United States of America. This in the 21st century. I can't imagine how bad it is in the developing world right now. I've been hearing of food riots. What happened to all the farmland? Did we convert too much farmland for ethanol and strip malls and office buildings?

Well, I dunno.

I saw plenty of food shortages and even rationing in the socialist paradises of the workers and peasants with free medical care for all, all the time.  And even in the areas with the most-fertile, most-productive, farmland.

If this is a harbringer of socialism, it should make the primitives happy, gloriously happy.

I guess not.

Alas! the poor primitives! alas! never happy about anything! the primitives! alas!

OmmmSweetOmmm  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-22-08 03:39 PM
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3. I went to my local grocery yesterday in NY yesterday and it was fully stocked.
   
I could have bought what appeared to be a 10lb bag of rice for a little over $4.00.

I will say though, that the prices have soared in the last couple of months.

kestrel91316  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-22-08 03:43 PM
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4. Dupe. This same story has already been posted a couple of dozen times.
   
There is NO rationing - rationing is an official government program.

There ARE some shortages of rice, probably due to the rice crop failures that are widespread in Asia.

Hannah Bell  (872 posts) Tue Apr-22-08 04:15 PM
Response to Reply #4

16. There are no widespread paddy failures in asia.

huskerlaw  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-22-08 03:51 PM
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6. I live in Los Angeles
   
I've seen nothing of the sort.

Yes, food prices are higher. They're higher everywhere.

But the shelves are fully stocked and I've not heard of any buying limits.

Then again, I don't have any need or want for 500 freakin' pounds of rice.

Journeyman  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-22-08 03:52 PM
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7. Bullshit . . .
   
Find me one other article than this New York Sun piece that supports this and I might believe it. But no where else on the internet is there anything but this one article.

Too many Henny Pennys on the Internets, willing to react to any Chicken Little crap that comes around.

Just one other article.

BigDaddy44  (530 posts) Tue Apr-22-08 05:10 PM
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30. I went to Kroger yesterday....
   
It was empty!!! EMPTY I tell ya!! Nothing left but feminine hygiene products and greeting cards. Just a few wayward souls wandering up and down the aisles with empty carts looking to see if anything was left.

Breeze54  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-22-08 05:50 PM
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35. There's plenty of rice, flour and pasta at my local stores in MA.
   
I call bullshit on that article.

Looks like the salacious primitive didn't succeed.

[DixieBelle]

Sounds like that one Costco store jumped the gun and decided to impose a limit based on the customer's spending history (which is readily available - this is a warehouse store like Sam's, I also shop at one). Anyway, there is no "panic" but as usual, one person decides to panic thereby lending weight to the theory.

[Carl]

I think what you have is a primitive circle of idiocy.

It seems like half or greater of the source links the DUmmies put up are other lib sites or blogs like KOS,the Guardian,Mother Jones and so on.
One starts a BS story,another links back to it..then another sources their blog post from that and pretty soon it becomes an orgasmic dance based on nothing.