This is not America: Rice rationing
April 24, 2008 at 11:31 am by Wayne GarciaHow good are the good times in the waning days of the Bush II administration? Well, in addition to a numbing war in Iraq, the end of goodwill toward the U.S. around the world, soaring oil prices, a stunted energy policy, out-of-control food prices and taxpayer bailouts of fat-cat Wall Street firms, we now have this:
We are rationing rice.
That’s right. Rice.
From the AP:
The two biggest U.S. warehouse retail chains are limiting how much rice customers can buy because of what Sam’s Club, a division of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., called on Wednesday “recent supply and demand trends.”
The move comes as U.S. rice futures hit a record high amid global food inflation, although one rice expert said the warehouse chains may be reacting less to any shortages than to stockpiling by restaurants and small stores.
Sam’s Club followed Seattle-based Costco Wholesale Corp., which put limits in at least some stores on bulk rice purchases.
Thanks again, Dubya.
(Photo by Francesca:Nocella)
