For all of the folks that are giddy at the prospect of the government running our healthcare system, and pretty much every other aspect of our lives they might take a minute to read this, if it’s any indication the current administration’s grasp on reality we are in big trouble:

“Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has ordered his staff to revise a computerized forecasting model that showed that climate legislation supported by President Obama would make planting trees more lucrative than producing food.”

“…the legislation would give landowners incentives to convert up to 59 million acres of farmland into forests over the next 40 years. The reason: Trees clean the air of heat-trapping gases better than farming does.”

It turns out that the House Climate Bill has more than a few little nasty surprises in it, not least of which might be an exponentially larger grocery bill for the average American.

As if it’s not bad enough that the idiotic ethanol program has been foisted upon the American consumer, whereby we can deplete the ancient aquifers of the Midwest and burn millions of tons of food at the same time, now the Democrat controlled Congress in collusion with a number of treacherous RINO’s wants to burden our nation with an even more outrageous program, this one tied to the said Climate Bill (read Cap and Tax).

As we find out from this article, these mental midgets have decided that growing food just doesn’t absorb enough of that dreaded substance known as carbon. You know; that same substance that we learned about in sixth grade science, the building block of life. Yes carbon, very bad. Not to worry though, the government has decided to simply convert 59 million acres of prime farm land to forest. That’s right 59 million acres. That’s an area quite a bit larger than the State that Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack has called home for the last thirty or so years. You would think that even though Vilsack has no experience as a farmer and is by trade a lawyer he still might have some clue as to just how big a 59 million acre cornfield is.

According to the USDA’s own figures the total acres planted in corn and soybeans last year came in at around 160 million acres. We can quickly see that the Obama’s Cap and Tax plan would take almost 37% of the nation’s most productive farmland out of the food producing business permanently. This is an area considerably larger than Vilsack’s home state of Iowa.

I suppose that the good news is that the Fed will quantitatively ease the money supply so much that we’ll able to afford a trip to the grocery store no matter how expensive. But can I ask what happens to all the folks in the developing nations that are depending upon cheap grain in order to feed themselves and their families? Can the liberals look any of them in the eye as their child starves for lack of grain or will they simply tell them to eat bark? We will have 59 million acres of it afterall.