Violence Over Food Prices Across the Globe

Story #4: Violence Over Food Prices Across the Globe

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, rising food costs have put turmoil on everybody's menu. Violence over food prices has been reported in Egypt and Haiti, and now at least two people have been killed in Somalia, where troops put down rioting over food. The Asian development bank is warning that over a billion Asians may sink back into poverty because of rising food prices. The bank, of course, says they want more money, but they're actually debating if India and China ought to foot the bill, not us, for a change. Meanwhile, the ChiComs have problems of their own. They're clamping down on food exports even as inflation rises along with food prices. North Koreans are still starving. Another American mission is over there trying to find solutions to their worsening food problem. I have the solution to all this, and that is, capitalism, born of freedom.