Real Patriots Don't Waste the Nation's Resources

The markets were up sharply last week. Wheat markets, that is.

While the Dow Jones industrials were down 315 points Friday, red-hot trading on the Minneapolis Grain Exchange pushed wheat to a record high of $25 a bushel in the same week.

Frankly, neither number is to be cheered, unless you're a wheat grower in Montana. In a country where people know more about their BlackBerrys than they do about how food gets to their table and gasoline into their SUVs, these and other numbers tumbled out ominously in the last week of the last full month of winter.