Comments on: Butter might be better, but you can’t afford it

By: tim.nash

tim.nash — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Doomies??? I have never heard that one before.

It sounds like a disease.

"Did you hear about Frank he was trading stocks the other day and he just collapsed, people said it was 'doomies disease' the doctors said he had an acute case of peak oil with a touch of food shortage stress. Let’s hope he can recover"

By: Bill Darby

Bill Darby — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Glen says: “If food prices double in Australia, then they will increase for our exports: just like our energy exports, many doomies fail to understand that we are a net food exporter and a net energy exporter, so any move to record prices for commodities gives us a net boost to national incomes.”

This will be cold comfort to those on low or fixed incomes, such as pensioners, who cannot modify their living patterns nor take advantage of the export boom he mentions.

By: Filo Pastry

Filo Pastry — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

I’ve just come back from the Philippines where they’re experiencing rice riots. Glenn Dyer is typical of the white first world media for whom belt tightening means giving up a few of life’s luxuries (Chardonnay). When you earn 500 Philippine Pesos per day (approx A$12) even a 3% price rise means something has to give. So what do you give up? Life? Get real Glenn. The American Fed’s printing of fiat money to support a bankrupt system is exporting inflation to the world so Americans can continue their scam of ‘Reserve Currency’ to the world permitting them to import lifestyles they can’t afford and export death and wars others don’t want.