FDA Will Ease Enforcement of Baby Formula Regulations To Address Shortage
Plus: Supreme Court sides with Ted Cruz in campaign finance case, gender quota for corporate boards ruled unconstitutional, and more...
Easing labeling and WIC rules is expected to get more baby formula to consumers. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has emerged as one major impediment to ending America's current shortage of baby formula. Now, the agency is taking small steps to get out of the way.
The infant formula shortage arose in response to a recall of formulas produced at an Abbott Laboratories facility in Michigan and the temporary shutdown of that plant.
In a healthy and competitive environment, the shutdown of one facility shouldn't have sent such shock waves through the formula market of the entire country. But the American baby formula market is both highly concentrated and a beneficiary of immense government protectionism in the form of trade restrictions and other regulations. Easing some of these rules and fees could allow more foreign formula to flood U.S. shelves, alleviating the current shortage and ending the state-created hold that a few big companies have over the U.S. market.
Baby formulas made in the European Union could be a good substitute since many of them already meet most safety and nutritional standards set by the FDA. But because a lot of these formula brands don't meet all FDA labeling requirements, they've been placed on the agency's "red alert" list, meaning they cannot be imported, sold, or purchased here and shipments will be detained if discovered.
Formula brands can be placed on this list for "transgressions" that are incredibly minor, such as not listing nutrients in a specific order or failing to include step-by-step pictures of how to prepare the formula in close proximity to the written directions for use. This means failure to meet these very specific yet arbitrary labeling rules can keep perfectly safe and nutritious formula from getting to U.S. customers.
On Monday, the FDA announced that it would temporarily ease enforcement of some labeling rules in order to allow for the importation of foreign formulas that meet U.S. safety and nutrition regulations but may run afoul of label requirements. To this end, the FDA issued new guidance for baby formula manufacturers, foreign and domestic, effective now through November 14, 2022.
"Today's action paves the way for companies who don't normally distribute their infant formula products in the U.S. to do so efficiently and safely," said FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf in a statement. "We anticipate that those products that can quickly meet safety and nutrition standards could hit U.S. stores in a matter of weeks."
Current regulations "require an infant formula manufacturer to submit notice (i.e., a new infant formula submission) to FDA at least 90 days before the infant formula is introduced or delivered for introduction into interstate commerce," notes the agency in the new guidance. To be permitted, infant formula must contain specified levels of protein, fat, essential fatty acids, 15 vitamins, and 12 minerals, as well as meet FDA labeling requirements.
Under the new guidance, the FDA will decide on a case-by-case basis whether "to allow the introduction into interstate commerce (including importation) of infant formula that is safe and nutritionally adequate, but that may not comply with all statutory and regulatory requirements." Formula manufacturers can submit safety and nutrition information to the FDA to be granted a reprieve from enforcement of these regulations.
"The extent to which we exercise enforcement discretion may vary," states the new FDA guidance on baby formula:
For example, an infant formula whose label does not list the nutrients in the order required … would need an exercise of enforcement discretion regarding that particular labeling requirement, and FDA may determine that enforcement discretion is appropriate. In contrast, an infant formula whose level for a specific nutrient is below the minimum that we require or does not contain a specific nutrient we require might not be an appropriate candidate for enforcement discretion, especially if the low level or absence of the nutrient could present a safety issue for infants.
The Biden administration is also urging states to loosen up other regulations that are making it harder for American families to find and buy baby formula right now.
"About half of infant formula nationwide is purchased by participants using WIC benefits," noted the White House in a fact sheet last week, referring to the federally run nutrition program for low-income women, infants, and children. Because of this, WIC program requirements for eligible formula (set by both the federal government and states) greatly influence the type of formula that U.S. manufacturers produce.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture "is urging states to allow WIC recipients to use their WIC benefits on a wider variety of products so that if certain sizes or types of formula are out of stock, they can use their benefits on those that are in stock," stated the White House. "And, USDA is urging states to relax their requirements that stores keep a certain amount of formula in stock. This will offer relief to retailers and allow companies to manage inventories to meet demand."
During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, officials eased rules regarding everything from telemedicine to take-out sales of alcoholic beverages, showing that many of these rules weren't necessary in the first place. Perhaps one silver lining of the current formula crisis is that it will do the same thing for excessive regulation of baby formula.
FREE MINDS
Ted Cruz, campaign finance, and free speech. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that "Section 304 of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002—which limits the amount of post-election contributions that may be used to repay a candidate who lends money to his own campaign—unconstitutionally burdens core political speech," SCOTUSblog explains. The case was filed by Sen. Ted Cruz (R–Texas), who challenged the Act's rule that only allows candidates to use up to $250,000 in post-election contributions to repay loans to themselves.
"A lower court ruled that the $250,000 limit is unconstitutional because the government had not shown either that it serves an interest in preventing politicians from trading favors for contributions or that the limit is sufficiently targeted to serve that interest. The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld that ruling," notes Amy Howe.
Because the loan-repayment limitation burdens First Amendment speech in elections, [Chief Justice John] Roberts wrote [in the court's opinion], it can only pass muster if it is justified – which, Roberts concluded, it is not. The only acceptable reason for restricting political speech, Roberts noted, is to prevent quid pro quo corruption – that is, politicians trading favors for contributions – or the appearance thereof. But in this case, Roberts observed, federal campaign finance law already seeks to prevent quid pro quo corruption by limiting individual contributions to $2,900 per election and requiring their disclosure. And indeed, Roberts added, the government has not pointed to "a single case of quid pro quo corruption in this context — even though most States do not impose a limit on the use of post-election contributions to repay candidate loans."
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California's attempt to mandate gender diversity on corporate boards is unconstitutional, a state court says. "Superior Court Judge Maureen Duffy-Lewis said the law that would have required boards have up to three female directors by this year violated the right to equal treatment," reports the Associated Press:
The conservative legal group Judicial Watch had challenged the law, claiming it was illegal to use taxpayer funds to enforce a law that violates the equal protection clause of the California Constitution by mandating a gender-based quota.
David Levine, a law professor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law, said he was not surprised by the verdict. Under state and federal law "mandating a quota like this was never going to fly," Levine said.
The ruling follows an April decision saying that another California law meant to ensure diversity on corporate boards is unconstitutional. That law required that publicly-traded companies headquartered in California must have at least one member of an "underrepresented community" on their boards of directors.
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• In case you need another depressing reminder that COVID-19 is never going away.
• President Joe Biden has authorized sending U.S. troops back to Somalia.
• Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he'll block Finland and Sweden from joining NATO.
• Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, advances the state's perpetual assault on free speech by signing a bill that makes it illegal to protest outside private homes.
• "Starbucks announced on Monday that it would reimburse travel expenses for employees who need abortions and cannot get them within 100 miles of their homes, joining the small group of companies that have moved to protect employee abortion access as the Supreme Court appears likely to soon overturn Roe v. Wade," reports The New York Times.
• Elon Musk won't go forward with his purchase of Twitter until the company clarifies the number of bot and spam accounts.
20% fake/spam accounts, while 4 times what Twitter claims, could be *much* higher.
My offer was based on Twitter's SEC filings being accurate.
Yesterday, Twitter's CEO publicly refused to show proof of <5%.
This deal cannot move forward until he does.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 17, 2022
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“We intend to have meetings to form a committee that will the study the label matter and report to the administration at some point in the future.”
As much as I hate arbitrary and unnecessary rules, I hate selective enforcement even more.
How many babies will die from improper labeling?
Considering all the COVID and Systemic Racism victims, there should be plenty of formula.
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Fewer than from abortions – – – – – – – –
dude we didn’t know it was a baby we swear.
Bureaucrats and over regulation are the bane of the free market.
Easing labeling and WIC rules is expected to get more baby formula to consumers.
Seems pretty tone deaf while Wade is on the chopping block.
“Oh, very well. More ‘clump-of-cells formula’.”
“About half of infant formula nationwide is purchased by participants using WIC benefits,”
I found this part to be much more shocking.
About half of infant formula nationwide is purchased by participants using WIC benefits
And then sold for cash.
And good for them.
Dopers use it to cut cocaine and heroine.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, advances the state’s perpetual assault on free speech by signing a bill that makes it illegal to protest outside private homes.
There are laws like that already, nothing new.
The law in Virginia is okay, because they only apply it to Republicans protesting
“It always different when we do it”
perpetual assault on free speech
I don’t think Reason Editors know what any of those words mean.
Those words mean more party invitations from the fascists.
Well, DeSantis did sign that bill that made it illegal to say the word “g*y” (I’m not sure if that’s just in Florida or worldwide), so it doesn’t surprise me.
Perpetually assault free speech. It will not stop.
“Don we now our g*y apparel!”
So they’re really is a war on Christmas!
Don’t be afraid to stand up for your rights and shout GUY from the rooftops, my friend.
A lower court ruled that the $250,000 limit is unconstitutional because…
Because they want democracy to die.
Democracy Dies In Fat Stacks
President Joe Biden has authorized sending U.S. troops back to Somalia.
SleepyJoe gets a boner when he sees the body bags unloaded off the planes.
dementia Joe just remembers the good old days of leaving the military without back up support or rescue. good times Somalia and Bengazi good times
It’s much creepier when civilians die and you go to their funeral to gloat and cackle.
If it’s not an emergency, he has no power to send troops there. He should ask Congress for authorization first.
If it is an emergency, he still needs approval from Congress within 60 days for troops to stay there.
Impeachment articles should always be handy, with blanks ready to fill in.
California’s attempt to mandate gender diversity on corporate boards is unconstitutional…
Is there no aspect of life SCOTUS doesn’t want a bunch of Handmaid Tail???
It seems that diversity requirements coming from California would be something requiring pre-approval by the courts. Every time the courts tell them it is illegal to discriminate, they just go back to the drawing board to see if they can find a more creative way to do it without being caught, and with each law taking time to be overturned, the damage of discrimination is done.
Somehow, this doesn’t qualify as a Perpetual Assault.
The state gov’t does the same with gun control, and gets beat down time after time.
The California law was problematic for other reasons — pressuring board members to out themselves so the company could say it already met the requirement. And who wants the state of California verifying what people self-report? Seems like a major privacy violation as well.
In Apple’s latest annual report (page 23) they show each board member’s Gender Expression, LGBTQ+ status , and Race/Ethnicity. Uggh.
Global warming is our only hope. God may have promised never to flood the Earth again, but that doesn’t mean we can’t do it ourselves.
Mike Lee said the solution to climate change is to procreate.
You Mormons aren’t even trying to hide your plans to outbreed everyone and take over.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he’ll block Finland and Sweden from joining NATO.
“HA!! Who’s Putin’s puppet NOW?!”
Such a jive turkey.
Post Cold War NATO was a mistake. After the fall of the Soviet Union it should’ve been wound down and replaced by different treaties.
^
In case you need another depressing reminder that COVID-19 is never going away.
Like other forms of prohibition, it’s simply too lucrative.
I’ve now gone so far as to somewhat appreciate that little scamp, Covid-19.
“gender quota for corporate boards ruled unconstitutional”
WTF?
I learned in college literally all forms of affirmative action are perfectly constitutional. In fact, my professors told me it’s unconstitutional not to mandate diversity.
This terrible ruling must be the result of Republican COURT PACKING. 🙁
#LibertariansForQuotas
Skin color is the most important thing
LadyDick is also way up there. If you have colored skin and a ladydick, you should be guaranteed a CEO spot.
What about man-vag? What if you have colored skin and a mangina? What do you get then?
Beat up?
Pregnant.
After that, you have a starving baby because you can’t get formula.
I’ve been wondering what all of the male hormones do to a developing child. When a guy-with-a-pie gets pregnant.
Qualifications for office 2022
1. Gay
Trans preferable
2. Color
a. black
b. brown (white hispanics need not apply)
3. Sex
a. trans
b. birthing person.
I expect Lori Lightfoot will be the dem nominee in 2024. the repubs will panic and run Caitlyn Jenner.
At least Caitlyn Jenner is likeable. It’s hard to think that anyone is excited to see Beetlejuice on the ticket.
Damn dude. But funny cause its so true!!!
Yeah, that one’s gonna stick.
Gross.
In case you need another depressing reminder that COVID-19 is never going away.
Remember, the vaccines are safe and effective with no downsides, and old tee shirts on your face can stop airborne viruses like magic.
You missed yesterday’s memo. The vaccine only works after you get the jab, then the virus
So, are you saying we circled back to natural immunity?
I think he’s saying we circled back to natural non-immunity.
No, that’s still a Dangerous Disinformation Conspiracy Theory.
It’s only a Dangerous Disinformation Conspiracy Theory when you clarify it. If you leave it inferred and still recommend the most profitable pharmaceutical product ever, you’re okay.
It’s how I’ve grown so powerful.
Pfizer’s second booster now approved for grade schoolers:
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/17/fda-authorizes-pfizer-covid-booster-dose-for-kids-ages-5-to-11-years-old.html
The FDA determined that a third Pfizer shot can boost protection for children in this age group and the benefits outweigh the risks, said Dr. Peter Marks, who heads the drug regulator’s vaccine division. FDA Commissioner Robert Califf said although Covid tends to be less severe in children, more kids have been getting sick and hospitalized with virus since the omicron variant became dominant. The FDA did not convene its committee of independent experts before authorizing the booster dose.
first booster, third shot
It’s obvious by now, that if your kids don’t get a shot a month, they could potentially, maybe, possibly get really sick from covid.
The FDA’s advisory committee is scheduled to meet next month to review Moderna and Pfizer’s requests for the drug regulator to authorize their vaccines for kids under age 5.
Gotta make the most out of those 75 years of immunity.
All for a virus that kids don’t get sick enough from that they can actually measure how well the vaccine works. Disgusting.
Anyone notice they said they are easing enforcement, not giving legal protection. After the shortage is over What’s to stop them from turning around and fineing the companies for violations
and one death because a parent mixed it with bleach then claims the instructions never said not to mix with bleach.
my comment makes it sound like it happened, it hasne’t but probably will and they will sue and demand more regulations
She was protecting her baby from covid 19, like Trump told her to.
Don’t forget the horse paste supplement.
Isn’t that for killing the baby?
Tag said no bleach, line dry only. Which end of baby to hang?
You say that like they charged giant fees to the liquor companies that made hand sanitizer.
crazy talk
In case you need another depressing reminder that COVID-19 is never going away.
What we really need is another depressing reminder that COVID-19 government overreach is never going away.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he’ll block Finland and Sweden from joining NATO.
Turkey in NATO. Next thing they’ll be putting Russia and China on the UN Security Council.
Just don’t tell me Somalia is on the Human Rights Council.
They got bumped for rowanfa
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican…
WE KNOW
This is my first time about this DeSantis fellow. Though his name reminds of that DeathSantis guy I was reading about a few months back.
“Starbucks announced on Monday that it would reimburse travel expenses for employees who need abortions and cannot get them within 100 miles of their homes, joining the small group of companies that have moved to protect employee abortion access as the Supreme Court appears likely to soon overturn Roe v. Wade,” reports The New York Times.
Powerful corporations are on the same side as Democrats, Exhibit #34,729.
#BigCorporationsLoveAbortion
#OBLsFirstLaw
Wonder if stockholders can file suit over the company wasting their money in such a manner.
And reducing their future customer base.
In cold moral calculus, is it a waste of money? What is more helpful for the bottom line- paying insurance and family leave for a mother, or sending her on a spa trip for a week?
curious what about the mothers who don’t want an abortion do they get a stipend for not aborting.
No, they get fired.
Stoned to death.
It’s a lottery.
Forced to make breast milk lattes.
With Gates milk?
Annual free shopping and sightseeing trips to New York and LA for slutty baristas.
In case you need another depressing reminder that COVID-19 is never going away.
Nobody outside of the liberal safety bubble ever thought that.
And of course the NYT writer couldn’t resist this nugget:
Each infection may bring with it the possibility of long Covid, the constellation of symptoms that can persist for months or years.
No attribution. No corroboration. Just a faith based statement regarding something that is generally perceived as being psychosomatic. But hey, fuck it, we’re the NYT. We’re not doing our job unless we’re scaring you with misinformation.
.. the constellation of symptoms..
Cool phrase.
Possible band name as well
Lying Jeffy has been way ahead of the curve. He has been on this very board harping about the societal degradation we were facing from all the long covid. Way to fight the good fight, Jeffrey.
Long covid seems to be something like IBS. Not a specific illness with a specific cause, just a diagnosis for people with various symptoms who feel a need to give it a label.
I saw an interesting study that seemed to show that thinking you had covid was a larger factor in who got “long covid” than actually having had covid.
I saw that study. It also said a lot of the “long covid” patients either never were diagnosed with covid, or never actually had covid.
I saw an interesting study that seemed to show that thinking you had covid was a larger factor in who got “long covid” than actually having had covid.
I said way back when this started becoming a thing, that “long covid” was largely a munchie disease. It’s not really an accident that most of the people saying they have “long covid” are women who just happen to say they also have some form of mental illness.
It’s sad how many things fall into that description.
It’s also one of those things that seems to get mixed in with an actual issue, with folks who have longer than average Covid symptoms.
Like, my cousin had it, and had some acute symptoms for a week, then was just dog fucking tired for a few weeks more. And this happens. I think most of us have had, or know someone who had, a flu or cold that dogged them for a weird amount of time.
But it went away after a bit, and he’s fine now. But these sort of vague non-acute cases like his, then gets mixed in with purely psychosomatic cases. Some amount of actual events, mixed with the hypochondria of our atge.
That’s what happened to me.
Starbucks announced on Monday that it would reimburse travel expenses for employees who need abortions and cannot get them within 100 miles of their homes…
The typical Starbucks consumer can applaud this while sipping on that $9 cup of coffee.
>reimburse travel expenses for employees who need abortions
Gets them back to work quickly, and keeps the store managers from having to pay child support.
“President Joe Biden has authorized sending U.S. troops back to Somalia.”
Excellent. Biden continues to show why early 2000s pro-war neocons are more at home in the Democratic Party these days.
#LibertariansForGlobalMilitaryPresence
Isn’t it racist to kill Somalians?
not when the “Right” people do it
He just wants them back in chains
Racism only exists on American soil. We’ll have to invade Somalia and take it over, then it will be racist.
Elon Musk won’t go forward with his purchase of Twitter until the company clarifies the number of bot and spam accounts.
@Jonpwnslibs8375441 agrees.
Bots deserve free speech too. We need to get Gillespie to get right on this truly important subject.
Aren’t most bots upvoters?
It’s hard to believe that 20% of the accounts on Twitter are fake accounts – I thought they all were fakes.
Fake personalities and outrage but that’s not quite the same.
Hey Peanuts isn’t this Biden economy amazing? Are you making more money than you know what to do with, like me and Warren Buffett?
#TemporarilyFillingInForButtplug
How’s the rig count?
A jump in spittin tabaccy futures increased their numbers.
80 million ballots for Biden.
I mean, I’m making more money and I don’t know what I can do with it. So that’s close enough.
Turns out Twitter is chock full of bots, and they are lying about it.
As has been pointed out, if this is true, they are liable for numerous suits that will likely dwarf the actual value the company has. At this point, Musk buying them is a merciful act.
I hope he crushes them in a completely legal manner. Bankrupt those fuckers and cash out on the stake he bought previously before running it to zero.
Except he’s not buying them. He’s using the offer to expose them…
A National treasure.
Interesting, I wonder what legal consequences this could have. Is there a mechanism to force them to reveal the data?
Could potentially get them de-listed from the stock exchange for willfully lying on thier financial disclosures. Hard to prove. I doubt anything will happen.
I doubt it’s that hard to prove if the courts don’t block records subpoenas. Those records should be available in a publicly traded company since active users has such an impact on actual value of the company.
Re: FDA Regulations
Much like the fall of Afghanistan, this is not a Biden-caused problem. But the handling is. And yet that really doesn’t matter in the long run.
Governments are fundamentally poor at handling change. Most bureaucracies are. This is a fact of life. The difference is that in the free market, if your organization cannot internalize at least some manner of adaptivity, your business will die. Competition doesn’t just help the customer, it also helps the organization stay agile.
The FDA failed us just as the CDC failed us, just as the Pentagon and State departments failed us in Afghanistan. And by the way, if you think the private sector is much better, consider that our entire financial system is run by 15 banks that are Too Big to Fail (Aka, have no real competitive pressure).
Where Biden’s administration has made a hash of things is their constant dissembling. Rather than say “This is unacceptable, y’all are fired”, the administration spends 80% of the time insisting that nothing is wrong, and it isn’t government’s fault anyway, and besides it is probably the best outcome for us anyways.
Many people don’t like this, because they are raised with childish platitudes their entire life, and continue to vote for the politicians who feed them the same platitudes. But it is a fact that everything ascendent in this world reached their through competition. Being constantly tested forces us to discard things that don’t work, and pivot to new things that work. This can be done without brutality, and where people have safety nets to prevent true catastrophe, but when we ignore it all together, we create exactly the type of organization that stands in the way of feeding our babies.
private sector…our entire financial system is run by 15 banks that are Too Big to Fail
Nitpicking here, but can it really be considered the private sector when it’s a cabal of firms hand-picked by the government, kept afloat by the government, and protected from competitive upstarts by the government?
Honestly, that’s probably just arguing semantics at that point. Corporatist, fascist, we can apply whatever label we want to it, but when a group of private corporations can blackmail the government in to providing a near-trillion dollar bailout–AFTER they spent seveal years committing securities fraud, mind you–or they’ll nuke the nation’s economy (which happened anyway), Overt has a definite point there.
What the banks did in the early-mid 2000s was just as bad as what Soros did with currency manipulation. A society that had any balls would have hung both of them from a willow tree, not allowed them to continue merrily along.
That’s just it, the banks didn’t unilaterally blackmail the government, the government was in on it every step of the way, from curating the banks that made up the financial sector to creating regulations forcing those banks to extend subprime loans to creating regulations allowing them to pawn off those subprime loans to suckers to cutting trillion dollar bailout checks and delivering pallets of quantitative easing cash. Such a mutually beneficial relationship between the government and corporations isn’t typically considered the “private sector”.
It seems that is why we had to change the definition of fascism. We didn’t want to admit that Mussolini’s ideas were the actual winner of the 20th century ideology wars.
The fundamental problem was the expansion of our money supply. That money had to go somewhere, so our low interest rates and government backing of loans through Fannie/Freddie created the foundation on which to build a bubble.
Bubbles happen when you are loose with money. When they pop, bad investments get unwound and capital is reallocated to the winners. This happens naturally in every market, but loose money policy just turns the natural reallocation of resources into these massive boom/bust cycles.
Those banks didn’t blackmail anyone. The government allowed “experts” to insist that change was bad, and scare them into bailouts. I remember all the people freaking out back in ’08, screaming that “the wheels are coming off!” They couldn’t imagine a world where 2/3 of the financial sector imploded. But we just saw a world where 2/3 of the small business sector imploded. 2020 showed us how these massive catastrophic gut-shots to the economy will ultimately be worked around.
What should have happened was dozens of banks going out of business, very rich people losing their jobs and becoming much less rich, and many middle class people being laid off, and many poor people trying to navigate a world where their services are in less demand. Because the alternative was this fragile, over-engineered, resistant to change nonsense that we have now.
It is cruel that government’s loose money policy creates these boom and bust cycles that disproportionately hurt the poor. But rather than tighten the belt, governments continue to sell empty platitudes about “smart regulation” and such while priming the next boom cycle with more loose money.
Well-said. We traded lots of short-term pain for lots and lots of long-term damage.
“Nitpicking here, but can it really be considered the private sector when it’s a cabal of firms hand-picked by the government, kept afloat by the government, and protected from competitive upstarts by the government?”
It is still the private sector, because most of the capital is formed privately. And that is my whole point- in the process of destroying the market forces of FREE enterprise, we have created massive, private bureaucracies just as resistant to change as the government.
And that’s the point where libertarians today often lose the script. They want to regard those massive, government-protected, private bureaucracies like they’re free-market corporations, but they’re not.
“…And that is my whole point- in the process of destroying the market forces of FREE enterprise, we have created massive, private bureaucracies just as resistant to change as the government.”
We allowed the gov’t to ‘regulate’ the banks into funding a ton of sub-prime mortgages and then (turd in particular) whined that the resulting crash was a failure of a free market in loans.
Well, yes this is the secondary effect: Having created these boom and bust cycles, with free money, the next step for politicians is to convince the masses that they have a free lunch (common sense regulation) to fix this problem.
Private entities aren’t blameless here: People do stupid shit with money all the time. That includes big banks and corporations. But loose money causes stupid people to stay solvent longer, until the damage of their stupidity is far larger than it otherwise would have been. Hate the idiot, and hate the government more.
^exactly this
This really was a very good comment thread.
Well said, Overt, Red Rocks, Moonrocks and American Mongrel.
So not being allowed to harass people at home is an assault on free speech? Why, you can still protest at their place of employment together your point across. I mean if you’re all for mob violence and intimidation I can see why you’d take this stance, but isn’t ENB supposed to be something other than a marxist revolutionary?
I don’t have a problem with people exercising their 1A rights at my house as long as the state doesn’t have a problem with me using my 2A rights to deter them.
The McCloskeys agree.
And were charged for it.
They shouldn’t have assaulted the protesters’ first amendment right to trespass in private, gated neighborhoods.
I would prefer that we didn’t need a law and that social pressure and basic decency would stop people from protesting people at their private residences. But sadly that’s not what’s happening.
Leftists who protest outside people’s houses are like toddlers throwing tantrums at the grocery store. They don’t care about whether their behavior is appropriate or decent. They want what they want and they’re going to lay down and scream in the middle of the cookie aisle till they get it.
The more I watch leftists, the more I’m convinced they are developmentally stunted around 4 or 5 years old.
They are missing consequence for fucking with people. In years past, had someone coldcocked a couple green hairs, that would have been the green hairs’ problem to deal with. Now, you are the monster for dealing with them like they should be dealt with.
I keep saying, close your doors and windows and throw stink bombs into your front yard.
Like all leftists, they count on the fact that everyone else still practices self control and restraint.
It’s going to be a very bad day when everyone else stops being restrained.
That’s already happened a few times with ANTIFA showing up in the wrong neighborhood and getting their asses kicked.
I saw a couple of those videos. It’s always satisfying to see antifa pussies getting their asses kicked.
Remember, protesters harassing Supreme Court Justices at home is democracy in action, but truckers honking outside of parliament buildings, or J6ers protesting in the Rotunda are dangerous threats to democracy.
Just watched a minute of Biden’s speech in Buffalo. He brought up 1/6. Such a disgusting human.
So those people killed in Buffalo were murdered by cops?
He didn’t even connect it to Buffalo, he just randomly brought it up.
I would prefer that we don’t pass a law at all, and just make sure there’s a clear line between “protest” and “harassment.”
Civilized people recognize people’s homes as off limits. Leftists are not civilized people. They don’t recognize commonly established boundaries, and they’ve turned every aspect of life into a political issue so they feel justified in violating any social norm they want. And their not reasonable people, so you can’t negotiate with them. They’re going to keep doing this, and they’re going to escalate as long as their indulged in it.
I would prefer if we didn’t need a law either but I think we’ve reached the point where that’s the only way to keep the peace.
Any regulation that can be suspended is unnecessary.
It can’t be about safety, because if it was, it would be unsafe to suspend it. If it is not, it is an attack on consumer freedom of choice.
Oh, wait. I get it now.
California’s attempt to mandate gender diversity on corporate boards is unconstitutional, a state court says.
Anyone with half a brain can understand this is obviously unconstitutionally discriminatory.
so that rules out proggies from understanding it…
What that shows is that the US Constitution is racist and sexist and genderist and all other -ist thing invented this week.
Which is why we need democratic presidents to appointing about 25 more justices to be sure the rest of them see the truth.
“In case you need another depressing reminder that COVID-19 is never going away.”
Nobody cares.
Recognizing science is never depressing.
What needs to go away is the fascist decrees and regulations that result from the false claim that this is an “emergency”.
Remember, remember, the eighth of November.
Once it was in the population, it was NEVER going away. The only correct way to deal with it is to protect the most vulnerable with appropriate treatments and vaccines, and then everyone else just gets on with their life until covid is just another annoying cold-bug people get- which is where we are now.
This is just panic porn for idiot proggies.
Yeah, it was obvious after the first antibody tests in April 2020 that it was far too widespread to contain.
We played pretend anyway so Joe Biden could ‘win’.
I care.
Okay. One guy cares.
Pretty sure Jfree still cares.
It’s his defining issue!
I care in as much as I got it again.
I dont care being that I hardly noticed it and life went on as usual. I continued to run 3-6 miles a day and train as usual.
I, for one, applaud our beneficent government overlords for quickly using the powers vested in them to
solveameliorate the problem they themselves created.“The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, ‘See if it weren’t for the government, you wouldn’t be able to walk.”
― Harry Browne
Congress was on the record about UFOs this morning lol.
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“Black Lives Matter paid nearly $4M to board secretary, co-founder’s brother, and father of her child”
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“The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation dished out nearly $4 million in consulting payments to its board secretary, co-founder Patrisse Cullors’ brother, and the father of Cullors’ child…”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/black-lives-matter-paid-nearly-4m-to-board-secretary-co-founder-s-brother-and-father-of-her-child/ar-AAXnzE7?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=18e6853c080f4a5dadc13a728f32cf4c
I’m actually surprised they didn’t announce an operation warp speed for baby formula. Spending a few trillion dollars on something is their favored approach.
Don’t you even Orange Man Bad?
How long before they try to print more baby formula?
Perfect chance to try out an entirely new technology for feeding babies.
3D printers can print formula?
Not without a permit, license, inspections and associated fees.
Nessisary for maintaining the high prices and profits.
Most politically savvy Americans by now are familiar with the cretinous Georgy Schwartz, aka “George Soros” . But today for the very first time I learned that there’s yet another one of these malevolent European billionaire shitheads who has made it his mission in life to turn America into a communist nation and destroy us: a Swiss guy named Hansjörg Wyss:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/05/17/swiss_billionaires_mega-influence_on_us_politics__147610.html
If you Google this fucking creep and look at some images, he looks like he would have blended in seamlessly with Goebbels and Himmler at the Wannsee Conference.
I ferventky wish that the ew billionaires who actually love this country like Elon Musk would devote some of their resources to crushing scumbags like this guy.
Whether Wyss, Soros or Klaus Schwab, they all have an early and significant association with Kissinger in common.
COMMENT I RECEIVED FROM DON AFMAN
How did I (and so many of us) even survive 60 to 70 years ago when we were fed evaporated milk mixed with Karo corn syrup? Now there are dozens of different mixtures and they can’t manufacture just one of them in a great enough quantity?
The problem was first reported by a whistle blower in October and no government action was taken until December? And according to Biden, no one in his administration knew anything until just recently.
At least 3 known agencies were involved (FDA, USDA & CDC) and either none were in charge or they were all in-fighting over who was. I’ll never be convinced we need hundreds and hundreds (does anyone really know how many?) of how many ways one can say:
Administration
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Bureau
Center
Commission
Committee
Conference
Corporation
Corps
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Division
Foundation
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Library
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Service
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Trust.