If you think Obamacare is bad...

If you think people are upset about government plans to take over the healthcare industry, wait until the predicted severe sugar shortage occurs in 2010! No Hershey bars, no Oreos, no Chips Ahoy, thousands more workers laid off, no M&Ms, no chewing gum, no wafers, no Fruit Loops: get my drift? That is what Kraft, General Mills, Hershey and others are threatening in a letter to the Obama administration, in order to try to get tariffs reduced. The only country that currently does not have to pay the tariff is Mexico. If Americans are unable to purchase the above-mentioned staples of their diet, the repercussions in Washington will begin to get serious. There is not enough sugar being produced to feed the world appetite for it. Ethanol production is also causing the price to rise, just as it is for corn. You don't think sugar cane growers have political power? Read any Carl Hiaason book! (I recommend Hiaason regardless of the sugar cane growers).