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Will 2008 Be The Year Corn Is King


Ken Hughes


March 23, 2008


Farmers are worrying where their going to find labors to plant, care for and harvest their crops this coming year. Without a guest worker program allowing Hispanics in the country they are unlikely to find workers willing to do the back breaking labor involved in agriculture. It has been suggested they pay higher wages, labor is only worth so much until it becomes too expensive. When it reaches its peak producers go to alternative measures that usually result in consumer product outsourcing. Those same Hispanics we wonīt allow to work in our fields will be harvesting our food supplies from their fields in South and Central America.


Americans will have little or no control over quality or quantity. Not only will Americans be paying higher prices they will be dealing with the possibility of contaminated foods. There have been several cases of this lately.


This country can no longer support an excessive progressive agenda and survive. Things are rapidly getting out of control.


The government wonīt insist on the same safety standards are practiced by the countries importing to America as they insist American produces maintain. Thereīs been more than one incident of imported contaminated food products being distributed through out American markets only to be discovered in hospital emergency rooms. The American farmer is more concerned with quality, they have one market America. Those nations who export their foods have the world as a potential market place volume is their concern not quality or health issues.


This nation seems to be obsessed with Hispanics crossing the Mexican / American boarder and are totally unaware of the other ways illegal enter into this country is possible. A person without papers lands at JFK in New York from any country in Europe or the Middle East.


Theyīre taken to Immigration authorities and issued a ticket that requires them to appear for deportation sometime in the future then they are sent on their way out onto the streets of America to be absorbed into our culture. Thousands of Oil Tankers and Container Ships come into our ports each year. How difficult would it be to slip a few hundred terrorists ashore along with their cargo? Homeland Security is a joke. Itīs going after the wrong people for the wrong reasons Homeland Security seems to be concentrating more on American Citizens and Histaminic farm workers than on terrorists.


Perhaps its time to bring our troops home and place them on our boarders and our ports of entry, That may be the best way to protect Americas interests.


Toronto Canada sends its waste materials to landfills in the United States outside of Detroit Michigan, there have been several cases where illegal immigrants from Europe and the Middle East were being smuggled into America in the garbage trucks.


This is not to suggest we open our boarders up to unlimited numbers of Hispanic labors, It does suggest the immediate need for a legitimate well regulated guest worker program. If this issue isnīt addressed soon America will have enough E-85 fuel made from corn to drive to medical emergency rooms to treat the effects of contaminated foods being imported into this country and no domestic foods we know will be safe. In a democracy itīs the governments duty to protect not punish it citizens, when foreign policy infringes on the American way of life then perhaps its time to examine foreign policy and make some adjustments.

Americans are perhaps the brightest people on earth, thatīs because over the years it has attracted many of the brightest people from around the world to augment our own self produced genius. Those people who felt their opportunities were limited in their own countries immigrated to America where opportunities were only limited by a persons efforts and desire to succeed.


America has been the womb of technology especially in the electronic age. Thomas Edison [an American] harnessed electricity and itīs been a runaway train ever since. All of the advancements of E-tech have come from Americans or from American innovation and cooperation.


Itīs time to take politics out of environmental, agricultural, and economical issues leaving them to those who understand such things. This isnīt to say the congress shouldnīt have some degree of oversight. Unfortunately todayīs oversight is being bought and sold for political gain.


We continually hear the system is broken and needs fixing. The founding fathers in their wisdom knew this would eventually happen and set forth a set of rules for the citizens to fix those things they felt were broken. Itīs called the ballot box all it takes is being smart enough to know its uses. Once the majority realize itīs their country and its up to them to see that it works like the constitution directs the country will once more be "By the People, Of the People and for the People."


Oil is one of those necessities earth is made of, Oil is equal to water, air and sun in importance.

As man progresses along the way they discover new and inventive ways of using the things the earth consists of. Usually if given the opportunity technology finds ways of making earths bounties work in mans favor without defiling nature, when pushed it begins to defy nature and thatīs not a good thing. Ergo letīs be patient and let nature and science take its course, itīs always worked in the past itīll work in the future.

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Ken Hughes


Ken Hughes is a strong believer in the constitution


His articles are conservative but he doesn't always support the Republicans view. When he disembarked from the ship 55 years ago the first thing he did was get a good cup of Cuban Coffee and second he registered to vote. Ken is a retired international business man whoīs traveled extensively and lived for several years as an expatriate in Central America.


His opinions are meant to express alternative views not to change minds. that he leaves to his readers.


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