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[hostergaard]

Give up on the price controls. We can try some other form of social program to help the poor later on.

Aye, let the free market bring hunger to the masses so they can see the light of communism! Lets find a better method than price control, it would be cheaper to buy the food from the farmers and giving it to the starving than paying double to keep food cheap and farming profitable.

[Culise]

Fair for the consumers as well, not just the producers, but the dichotomy between the two is the entire cause of the issue.  With how high the market price is, people who can't buy food will steal it, kill for it, and/or overthrow the government that is killing them by degrees to make way for a government that will take action to protect them.  At least by subsidizing it, we can stave off the issue for a time until crop conditions and the economy improve. 

[lijacote]

Subsidize. Free markets are supposedly free - but for whom? The profiteer?

Let us reject foolishness.

[Sheb]

You're just going to wreck our whole food-production chain. You heard the man, corn is already cheaper to buy than to buy. How long until the campesinos decide to simply buy corn and sell it back to us?

Let us make a deal. We let the price raise, but our next visit will be to some urban poor that need helping.

[Cicero]

Well Sheb had to lose a coin flip some time. The Commies champions of the people have won this round, we have preserved the price control system by subsidizing the cost of food, allowing it to be distributed at a loss.



Ernesto appears skeptical of our big city ideas.

Who woulda thunk it, another crisis!





Well we gave land to the poor coffee farmers, but now the cotton farmers are all up in our grill. Manuel's suggestion seems much more prudent than just letting them take whatever land they want, but you guys do seem like crazy Revolutionaries. What's it gonna be?

[EuchreJack]

Eh, just let 'em have it.   

[Culise]

If our Communist agitator is suggesting a moderate course of action, that may not be a bad idea.  Slips of paper government bonds for all.

[Cicero]

Culise won the coin flip, we listen to Manuel.




And good thing too, its not often we make both parties happy!



Back in the office, what should we do now?

[birdy51]

Reach under desk. Pour ourselves a glass of tequila. Drain the bottle. Pick up telephone. Drunk dial.

Consort with someone we haven't spoken to yet. Use a random number generator if you must.

[Cicero]

Mmmm after all those Crises Presidente could use a drink. Ahhh that hit the spot. Slightly less than two drinks. Time for drunk dialing!




Ooh hello good lookin, I don't mind if I do *hic* "continue" this "encounter" 




Whaaattta ya mean you don't *hic* like the price *hic* controls? What? Price controls mean *hic* we're spending money on *hic* beans and corn instead of other more fun stuff like factories and *hic* guns? Listen *hic* sweetheart, you got some nice ideas for *hic* running this here Chimerica. Why don't you come on over to the Presidential Palace and- What's that Manuel? You want the phone?

Should Presidente yield to reason and hand the phone over to Manuel to repair the situation? Or will drunkenness and lust prevail?

[lijacote]

Yield to the wingman. Our carnal desires must not compromise the revolution.

[Sheb]

And again we see the communists' true face. They claim to defend the poors, but when a poor, hardworking shopkeeper come with demands, they send her packing. Why? Because they do not care about the poor, they crave power and money, and are just too lazy to work for it.

Free the market, remove the price controls!

[lijacote]

The shopkeeper can sustain themselves. If not by profit, then through her own produce. What can be said of the poor of the city? It can be said that they were starving. No longer.

You seek to undo that change, you seek to bring starvation to the people again. Your heart is black with malice, with greed.

[Sheb]

And what will you do when there won't be food to be had at any price because of your policies?

[JackOSpades]

And what will you do when there won't be food to be had at any price because of your policies?

Why then we shall have to feed the fed people to the starving people so that they might become the fed in turn.

a much better alternative by far than that free market malarkey and a course of action that's PETA approved.

vote for more price controls and Meat products free from animal cruelty.