Posted on 05/19/2022 5:12:42 PM PDT by Kaslin
Joe Biden is suddenly serious.
He's taken control. Instead of sending a spokeswoman to laugh off a question about who was "running point" on the baby formula crisis, or telling moms with hungry infants to ask their doctors for free samples, if not call their local community organizer, he's invoked the Defense Production Act to empower the federal government to take control of the baby formula shortages that have come as 50% of baby formula has disappeared from store shelves. That'll fix 'er. Just bring in old Joe Biden, and worry not.
Biden invoked the Defense Production Act to ensure that manufacturers have the necessary ingredients to make "safe, healthy infant formula here at home.""The President is requiring suppliers to direct needed resources to infant formula manufacturers before any other customer who may have ordered that good," the White House said. "Directing firms to prioritize and allocate the production of key infant formula inputs will help increase production and speed up in supply chains."
The White House also announced the launch of its new program, "Operation Fly Formula" to speed up the import of infant formula and get more formula to stores in the United States as soon as possible.
This is weird stuff. Biden created the crisis by allowing his FDA to hamfistedly shut down a major baby formula supplier over safety concerns after several infants got sick and one died after supposedly consuming Abbott's baby formula, a charge the company says was falsely attributed to its formula. Biden hasn't proven otherwise, but the plant, which makes about a third of the formula consumed in the States, stays shut down. The shortages that came of it were something the Bidenite FDA never considered.
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A crisis worthy of his abilities....
Does shutting down plants contribute to baby formula hesitancy?
What could go wrong? With BiDung in charge, EVERYTHING!!
The Re-Actor
Who says they were shut down?
Biden made sure the illegals had more than enough for their babies. To hell with American babies.
Whats next, will he use the NDAA for Depends?
New and improved with extra shiny lead paint flakes
But all this Defense Production act does is give other suppliers priority for raw materials, which is silly because they are not in short supply. Won't have any effect at all to remediate the shortage in retail stores.
Easing restrictions on foreign suppliers will, but I'm thinking not much. Do they have excess production capacity that can be ramped up quickly? I doubt it. All they can do is draw down their inventories, leaving their own consumers short. In a couple of months Abbott's production will hit the stores, and the crisis will be over. If a foreign supplier DID ramp up production, they'd just have to slow it down again. In Europe, this is well nigh impossible. You can't hire workers for a few months and then lay them off again over there. Labor laws.
Imagine hating someone sooo much that you’d sell your soul to get rid of that person. That’s the deal the Dems made with the Devil to get rid of President Trump. Now, the Devil is collecting on that deal and America is reaping what the Dems have sown.
They are practicing for a domestic war. If they can control food, fuel, medicine, etc., they win.
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence.
(paraphrasing Napoleon)
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I just heard the drunk nancy piglosi say the this was not possible even if they wanted to do it. What changed from two days ago? Was Nancy bombed when she spoke?
There was no reason or necessity to invoke Defense Production Act other than grandstanding theater
There are hundreds of commercial cargo flights crossing the oceans every day not to mention belly freight space on passenger airlines. There's absolutely no reason to send U.S. military aircraft to haul something mundane like baby formula. It's just theatrics playing to the leftie dem base who wants to turn the military into a support system for social programs instead of national defense.
Exactly-well said
“The shortages that came of it were something the Bidenite FDA never considered.”
Proves President Obama was right.
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