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Originally Posted by CurtEgerer
The so-called 'rationing' is completely bogus. It's not 80LBS per day or per week or per month. It's 80LBS every time you walk into the store. Bring your wife and you get 160LBS every time .... Yet, my daughter comes home from school today concerned about the rationing of rice they talked about in class. Apparently, the teacher never got beyond the ginned-up headlines and she knew nothing about the 80LB portion size.  |
The 80 lb. limit is designed to discourage consumers from EXPORTING rice. Rice prices have quadrupled in some Asian markets where people already spend more than half of their money on food.
The rice shortage will be a transient one, but for now it's very real.