Selling America out from under us

http://www.fsa.usda.gov/Internet/FSA_File/afida_thru_12312011.pdf

The above map and study from the USDA is for AGRICULTURAL land, folks! This is land used for renewable resources that you know is being shipped out of the US, or even if used here, the money is going to foreign lands.

 

Why do we bother sending aid to all these foreign countries when they're getting there food here anyway?

 

Foreign investors held an interest in 25.7 million acres of U.S. agricultural land (forest land and farm land) as of December 31, 2011. This is an increase of 1,490,781 acres from the December 31, 2010 report (Report 1A), and represents 2.0 percent of all privately held agricultural land in the United States. These and other findings are based on information submitted to the U.S. Department of Agriculture in compliance with the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act of 1978. Forest land accounted for 54 percent of all foreign held agricultural acreage, cropland for 19 percent, and pasture and other agricultural land for 27 percent. Foreign holdings of U.S. agricultural land were relatively steady from 2000 through 2006; between 2006 and 2007, there was a significant 3.6 million acre increase. Since 2008, there have been moderate increases each year ranging from 1.3 to 1.5 million acres. Between January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2011, there was an increase of 1,490,781 acres.