While Clueless Joe Biden laments 9mm handguns that he claims vaporize the lungs of those shot with the weapons, and campaigns to put the clamps on legal gun owners in general, Dutch farmers are upping the armament ante in their anti-government protests.
These farmer protesters are aggrieved by their government going environmentalist wacko and looking to limit nitrogen in fertilizers, thereby reducing the effectiveness of those fertilizers, and putting an estimated 30 percent of the farms in The Netherlands out of business.
The government also wants substantial reductions of farm animal herds because of their manure emitting nitrogen oxides – the stink in manure.
Farmers have been using tractors in their protests, blocking food distribution centers to bring attention to their plight.
In predictable fashion, in at least one instance police fired on a farmer in his tractor.
The Dutch farmers have a response. An online video showed a military tank (reportedly of World War II vintage) rumbling off a flatbed trailer and down a road, supposedly to block a distribution center and be impervious to trigger-happy police.
There must be a lot of Bidens running things in The Netherlands, the kind of people who think you can shut down producers without any effect on supply and prices.
Clueless Joe has tried that with energy, attempting to regulate fossil fuel producers into oblivion and then being stunned by rapidly rising energy costs.
Now the Clueless One blames Putin and implores the domestic energy companies to reduce their prices, which anyone with a passing acquaintance with Econ 101 knows would only create artificial demand and shortages.
The way to lower prices in the traditionally effective way economically would be to increase supply with further exploration and production. Then prices would fall.
But that would alienate all Clueless Joe’s socialist greenies, so he can’t/won’t do that.
I await Dutch bureaucrats first blaming Putin for food shortages or soaring prices — just because — and then urging farmers magically to produce more food with fewer farms and animals and less fertilizer.
Food prices will skyrocket in The Netherlands if the farmers are hamstrung legislatively, and the firms providing food to the population will be cast as the bad guys for charging more.
I happened to catch an old political clip today. As far back as 1964 Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater was warning that it was time for the people to put the government back in the role of servant, not master.
All these years later, that has not been accomplished. To the contrary, our government, staffed with unelected, all-powerful bureaucrats, is running more roughshod over the people than in the days of King George.
Recent Supreme Court decisions have tried to rein in that, but it is too little, too late.
What’s going on in The Netherlands needs to come soon to a town near you for overreaching government here to get the message.
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