State intervention in prices apt

Families, and even businesses, are struggling. What is terrifying is that the outlook is bleak worldwide. People are feeling the pinch everywhere, even in the more advanced countries. Outside our ever-pacific Botswana, millions of people have taken to the streets to protest against the high fuel and food prices that have eroded - and in some instances completely taken away - their take-home pay. Even basic foodstuffs are now out of reach for many, and some staples are not even available on the shelves any more.

For the first time in living memory, the spectre of famine on a universal scale is a real and present danger for humanity. Hence it is no longer acceptable for governments and businesses to say they do not have control over prices, relegating that responsibility to nebulous market forces. If they do not intervene on behalf of the masses, who will?
For in times like these, people have a legitimate expectation that their political leaders will strive to make life livable.