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Would you trust your government with the lives of your family? During a national emergency would you wait for help or make efforts to safeguard your family? The government devours roughly 40% from the average American family’s budget through taxes and what services do they get in return? The proper role of government according to the constitution is to guard life, liberty and property. It is sad to say but if America was the name of a ship sailing upon choppy waters and our government officials knew we were headed for the ‘perfect storm’they would be guarding the life rafts and jumping ship.

Food prices are expected to keep rising worldwide in the years ahead due to a number of factors, in turn posing a threat to the world's poor, an international think tank warned Tuesday n a report issued in Beijing. The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) cited income growth, climate change, high energy prices, globalization, and urbanization as factors which were converging to transform food production, markets, and consumption.