A Usenet persona calling itself Michael Daly wrote:

On 16-Feb-2005, Scott Weiser wrote:

Um, the primary reason for stockpiles is to provide food in the event of
crop failures and shortages

BUt if you check the history of US agriculture, the primary reason was
_not_ to provide food - it was to prop up prices. Stop playing with
words and check the facts.

It's both. And neither is an improper exercise of government power.

Living up there, you don't have access to stockpiles of government cheese,
for example, that are distributed to feed the poor.
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