Yes, walk into your local mega grocery emporium or just about any food selling area anywhere in the world and stare the problem in the face. There s inexpensive, high calorie food piled all over the place.

The underlying answer is this There s a lot of cheap food around . Yes, walk into your local mega grocery emporium or just about any food selling area anywhere in the world and stare the problem in the face.

The US was more the world s emporium than its imperium. But just think how different everything would look if America had a trade surplus and a more manageable level of domestic borrowing than the 14 trillion run up in debt by credit card holders before 2007.