[Gogar]

Imagine you lived in Idaho and you grew potatoes.

To break even in your business you needed to make $1.00 a bushel. Not make money, just break even.

Then imagine that Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and then Iran had huge warehouses full of potatoes and decided to sell them for $.50 a bushel.

Then imagine that the US Government also had a huge warehouse full of potatoes and decided they didn't really 'need it anymore', because potatoes were so cheap. So they also flood the marketplace with cheap potatoes.


You go bankrupt because you can't afford to sell potatoes for $.40-.45 a bushel, and you lay off your 100 employees and sell all your tractors, and lose your land and your house.

Then some guy in the city says "I don't understand why cheap potatoes are a problem, I love potatoes! I bought 500 pounds of potatoes this week for like, $2.50!!! Awesome!