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Posted by: Neophile 4 months, 4 weeks ago

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The U.N.'s World Food Program is struggling as costs of food and fuel skyrocket while the numbers of people needing help surge across the globe. Millions are in danger.

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dissent4 months, 4 weeks ago

"Meteoric food and fuel prices, a slumping dollar, the demand for biofuels and a string of poor harvests have combined to abruptly multiply WFP's operating costs, even as needs increase. In other words, if the number of needy people stayed constant, it would take much more money to feed them. But the number of people needing help is surging dramatically. It is what WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran calls "a perfect storm" hitting the world's hungry."
meteoric food and fuel prices..... a slumping dollar.....
hmmmmm...... what started all this then?
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Dionys4 months, 4 weeks ago

Well at least the US policy is all about spending trillions of dollars killing all those extra human beings on earth instead of feeding them.
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Wolfie20074 months, 4 weeks ago

Think about little children going hungry every time you fill up your hybrid. Using food for fuel is immoral. Btw, we had a great economy until the liberal democrats took over the House.
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  Dionys4 months, 4 weeks ago
  
  Hybrids use gasoline. Not biofuels such as biodiesel or ethanol. Idiot.
  The economy better under the RepugnantCons? Certainly. For a few corporations it's been great. For everyone else, we're in a recession and heading for a depression.
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cindy5864 months, 3 weeks ago

It's terrible!!!
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