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It's very likely that these 'surprise' ME uprisings are based not wholly on the desire to 'be free', but to assuage a rumbling in thinning bellies. We're still wealthy enough, here in the U.S.A., to avoid the food-related street protests we're seeing in Middle East nations.

Where's the outrage? Liberals mob the state capital of Wisconsin, and begin to rise up in Rhode Island and New Jersey and Ohio and... but they obviously aren't very hungry. These unruly, uncivil, thuggish sorts only want to keep the hard-left in power and their own kind satisfied.

A reduction in pay is the least of the worries of these wimpy hippy 60's-redux protesters. The beginning of the middle east's problems began in Tunisia with a food vendor immolating himself over confiscation of his food cart. We've not seen any far-left whimps torch themselves; oh no, that's not what happens in the U.S.

Give 'em a year or so. If world food prices continue to increase, if we lose our dollar's status as the world's reserve currency and inflation really gets busy, these sorts will be hungry soon enough.

Then they'll have reason to riot. Not these 'baby-step' protests, oh no.

You ain't seen nuttin' yet.

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