"Federal Government: You Need More Trees, Less Food"

Check out this story from the Washington Times: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/29/forests-vs-food-study-worries-agriculture-chief/.
Apparently the Department of Agriculture has been reading a report suggesting (read that: "commanding") that the government give "incentives" to farmers to turn over some 59 million acres of land into forests. (Translation: The Federal Government will tax the daylights out of farmers and strong-arm them into surrendering their land to the government so that they will plant things we cannot eat.)

It sounds like the Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is a little worried about this latest decree from on high. I mean, after all, it means less food for Americans, and we've been plundering the planet for far too long. We need to starve a little. Don't pay any attention to all the starving masses in Third World countries who need food from America to survive. Let them eat cake.

Where do they come up with nutty ideas like this? Why, from the Global Warming/Climate Change "activists," of course. Trees are good because they "eat up" all the excess carbon dioxide that the evil people of the world (i.e. Western industrialized nations) expel. We need to go on a diet anyway, I guess. After all, the government knows what's best for you and me, right?

After I read the whole article, I had a few parting questions:
1. When do things ever work out just fine according to "government computer models?"
2. How is this any of the federal government's business according to their charter (a.k.a. the Constitution--you know that old fashioned document that gives Congress and the President their job descriptions. . .)?
3. Do we have a shortage of trees in this country? (I thought we have a worldwide shortage of food. . .)
4. Why is anybody with any sense still listening to global warming hysteria--especially after the fraud behind it has been exposed by way of the hacked e-mails from East Anglia University? Oh, I forgot, these are Big Government idealogues in charge--they don't care about empirical evidence or logic. They just like control. And less food for you makes you easier to control.
Happy New Year!