Posted on 02/04/2009 7:18:50 PM PST by PAR35
(CNN) — The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced Wednesday that food kits distributed to survivors in Kentucky and Arkansas may contain peanut butter contaminated with salmonella.
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Barack’s fault.
Damn you....
;-)
Obama hates white people! “Great job, Whateveryournameis!”
Same thing is true of MRE’s. Any recent buyers should check for a recall notice or just toss the peanut butter packet.
I had to post that one in a hurry. But here’s the bio of the Acting Head of FEMA, who is currently touring the area:
http://www.fema.gov/about/bios/ward.shtm
At this point I’m thinking our entire government and all it’s agencies are utterly incompetent. Starting to feel like the soviet union with the way things are run.
it happened under Obama’s watch..but he has been too busy to worry about Kentucky ..doing things like skipping out on the White House business and going to visit school children .
I COMPLETELY agree. It’s actually getting scary, well, to those of us paying ANY attention.
In soviet union, storm doesn’t kill you. FEMA kills you.
In another major Administration scandal, CNN can now reveal that the Barack Administration distributed thousands of meals containing peanut butter tainted with a potentially lethal bacteria.
Congressional leaders have called for in investigation to find out "what the President knew and when he knew it." A source who spoke on the condition of anonymity said "the disdain this Administration holds for people who lack color is well known."
CNN will keep you updated on this breaking story....
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I don’t make any argument about how competent the gov’t is but I purchased a case of peanut butter crackers at Costco that were part of the same recall. Got two notices from Costco and know many other retailers carried products containing peanut butter from this plant.
To blame this on the gov’t is absurd and it’s part of the same logic that sees the gov’t continue to grow in size and incompetency. Some congresscritter will decide we need 250 more FDA investigators to prevent this. This company will be sued beyond belief and that makes more impact than 250 more federal inspectors.
FEMA needed care packages and bought a product (assume on the free market) just like I purchased a case of crackers for my toddlers.
If you were being sarcastic then I apologize.
No I wasn’t being sarcastic and there’s no need to apologize. Just differing opinions.
I don’t disagree that it sounds like things were not right at this plant. I just wish everyone would realize that it’s easy to say the gov’t should have done something before a problem is discovered. The only solution we get is more government and more regulation/legislation.
More government will not fix problems like this. The owner of this plant going bankrupt because he was negligent will fix it and sends the message to others in the same business.
Consider.... thousands of people were stupid in New Orleans before Katrina hit and ignored the evacuation order. Most of them were horribly prepared to survive a few weeks.
The aftermath provided a heavy dose of finger pointing at the federal government. FEMA became a bigger agency with greatly expanded responsibilities and now we spend more than ever on disaster preparation. Where is the individual responsibility to be prepared for disasters?
We pay more now and our children pay more in future debt because people lived below sea level, refused to evacuate, and could not take care of themselves after the fact?
It is NOT absurd to blame the SAME GOVERNMENT that ordered a recall to NOT dump their own stores of that crap product.
Just a differing opinion.
Almost as absurd as the blame placed on the Bush administration by the democrats and their media henchmen when Katrina hit Chocolate Town.
Almost as absurd as the government's response to the Katrina criticism.
Almost as absurd as having to watch the race card played everytime a black is offended, feels slighted or wants something else from the taxpayers.
Almost anything to do with the federal government these days is absurd. About the only group that is still functional is the military and Obama has already started to remedy that.
Nearly 168,000 emergency meal kits sent by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to the state had been recalled more than two weeks earlier because some contained peanut butter that could have been contaminated, federal officials told the Associated Press. http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-na-salmonella-fema6-2009feb06,0,1907573.story Poor children and white people were most affected.
In a campaign speech in New Orleans on Feb. 7, 2008:
“Across the city, we see the evidence that George Bush’s promises were empty,” Obama said.
“If catastrophe comes,” Obama said, “the American people must be able to call on a competent government. When I am president, the days of dysfunction and cronyism in Washington will be over.”
Has anybody determined the source of the salmonella contamination and how it made its way into the plant to be spread on the processing equipment?
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