Jun 07
What kind of government forces people to make gasoline out of food, artificially boosts the price of corn to $6 a bushel, guarantees that inflated price as the “base” for higher federal subsidies to corn farmers in the future, and then tries to hide its own depredations by excluding high food prices from its measure of “core” inflation?
ERNEST S. CHRISTIAN and GARY A. ROBBINS, Stupidity and the State, Wall Street Journal, June 7, 2008