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Egypt's grain imports were caused by bad governance and theft, not by population. Mubarak instituted a bizarre form of reverse land reform in which he stole lan
by jessaustin 5y ago
Egypt's grain imports were caused by bad governance and theft, not by population. Mubarak instituted a bizarre form of reverse land reform in which he stole land from families who had farmed it for ten generations and gave it to cronies who attempted to grow fruit and flowers for Europe. The cronies were not farmers, their crops failed, the desert rolled in. Truly, the apex of capitalism.
https://www.marketplace.org/2011/12/12/sustainability/food-9-billion/food-fuels-egypts-revolution/ https://www.marketplace.org/2011/12/12/sustainability/food-9...
- jtbayly 5y agoWhen the government takes your land that’s generally called communism, not capitalism.
- jessaustin 5y agoI take it you're not Native American... All authoritarians confiscate property when it benefits them to do so. When communists have taken farm land, they have mostly left it as farm land, even if production has sometimes decreased due to incompetence. No one with a clue would consider Hosni Mubarak a communist, because he transformed land that had produced grain for millennia into "investment vehicles" for cronies, and then into desert. Not even communists are that incompetent, or venal.