For Amber Waves of Grain

Really- I mean seriously- how is it we are importing wheat gluten (tainted with pet-killing crap) from China while we pay MILLIONS to wheat farmers in North America to NOT, I repeat, to not grow any wheat? Why is noone asking this question in a big fat public scream in your face kind of way? Why are we far more concerned that the Bush administration fired 8 lawyers because of political bent, (which is perfectly acceptable thing to do as long as you TELL congress you are going to do it)? I mean, they aren't really in trouble for firing the lawyers, they are in trouble for not following the proper procedure in firing the lawyers and then lying about what they did.

Really- this is more important? This should captivate the national media? Or maybe finally finding out who the father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby is the most worthwhile pursuit these days.....Meanwhile, China owns us heart and soul? I mean- its cheaper to import wheat by-products from China while paying people here big money to not grow wheat than it is to just let American farmers grow wheat and sell it to ourselves???? And we are so enslaved to the bargain mentality that as the country of the free and the brave we will go out of our way to buy-one-get-one-free ice cream dishes while we will knowingly underwrite an empire built on the backs of its people who are starving, working with child labor, and throwing out beautiful baby girls to avoid government penalties? Cheap plastic crap at a low price makes this system justified? Sure, that purse looks great with those shoes, but can you really live with yourself knowing what the human cost of you saving a few bucks of your throw-away income is all about? I am mystified, mortified but most of all petrified- as I don't have the slightest idea, besides railing at the wind, of what to do about it, or how to extract myself from this system (as I type on my laptop which was assembled in China!) I know why they call social change campaigns "movements"- because I won't be able to live with myself for long if I just sit still in this place. And please don't tell me to run for office- I'd rather run for the hills.