Do you know what it’s technically called when “government takes control of the means of production?” Yeah, that.
This afternoon Joe Biden invoked the Defense Production Act (DPA) giving Health and Human Services (HHS) the legal authority to control the supplies needed for the creation of baby formula (how it is made), and the authority to determine distribution equity (who gets it). Emphasis mine:
White House [DPA Sec. 2] – “[T]he authority of the President conferred by section 101 of the Act to require performance of contracts or orders … is delegated to the Secretary of Health and Human Services with respect to all health resources, including the ingredients necessary to manufacture infant formula.”
“(b) The Secretary of Health and Human Services may use the authority under section 101 of the Act to determine, in consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture and the heads of other executive departments and agencies as appropriate, the proper nationwide priorities and allocation of all ingredients necessary to manufacture infant formula, including controlling the distribution of such materials (including applicable services) in the civilian market, for responding to the shortage of infant formula within the United States.” (read more)
HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, an über-leftist who ironically self-describes as an abortion absolutist, is now in charge of infant formula manufacture and distribution. You do not need to be a conspiracy theorist to predict which “at risk” group will get priority distribution of limited resources.
A small but important win IMO.
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If everyone stood up like this, we just might get our freedoms back.
I wouldn’t trust Xavier Becerra to take out the trash and recycling bins on-time. Come to think of it, I wouldn’t trust The Joetato to do,well, to do anything. Becerra is a corrupt minion in service to a demented, senile ideologue. Joe is too stupid to actually be a Marxist revolutionary (wrong-headed, but requires some smarts); he also lacks the moral center to truly put it all on the line for his beliefs. His entire career consists of a spineless obsequiousness in service to well-heeled interests, first in Delaware, and later D.C. Becerra, on the other hand, is merely a lackey amongst other lackeys – truly one of the more useful of idiots in a veritable harem of frauds, pseudo intellectuals, grifters and criminals.
President Biden has taken some kind of control over the US commercial sector ingredients required for use in making baby formula. In some weird and unexplained way….Health-Human-Services (HHS) will now control distribution.
They didn’t say HHS trucks will be hauling baby formula around America, but it begs questions.
So if aspirin comes up next on the shortage list….will the president assume control over those ingredients and hand that to HHS for distribution?
If birth-control pills comes up next on the shortage list….will the president assume control over those ingredients and hand that to HHS for distribution?
If Diet-Pepsi comes up next on the shortage list….will the president assume control over those ingredients and hand that to HHS for distribution?
If cat-food comes up next on the shortage list….will the president assume control over those ingredients and hand that to HHS for distribution?
If beer comes up next on the shortage list….will the president assume control over those ingredients and hand that to HHS for distribution?
It begs a lot of questions…..but here’s the odd thing. In the 1930s/1940s/1950/1960s in the USSR…..this was the Soviet thing to do. It was plain regular communism, with central control from Moscow.
Just like the COVID lockdowns, some businesses are more important than others. Gov chooses the winners and the losers.
Since Brandon’s government has now taken over the baby formula industry will they require an infant be vaccinated with the new under 5 dose before mothers can acquire their formula?
Has anyone else thought that maybe this formula ‘issue’ is so that all the mentally ill men, who aren’t pregnant, won’t feel bad about not being able to nurse their babies, that aren’t born from the womb that they don’t have, with mammaries, that they also don’t have?
Buh…buh….then they won’t have formula to fill their chest feeders! (fake breasts with a baby bottle nipple) Pete Butt Edge Edge will be sooo disappointed!
Don’t pretty much all mothers of newborns have a readily available workaround?
Yes, I don’t get the emergency here – does no one nurse their babies anymore? And, if not, why can’t they use regular milk – why do they need a “formula?”
This is such a silly comment. MANY mothers, like myself, cannot nurse due to a myriad of medical reasons. It’s not that we don’t want to, its that our bodies physically do not allow it. Additionally, infants cannot drink “regular milk”. Their little systems cannot process it correctly, and it can hurt them. For lots of mothers, formula is the only way to feed their babies.
For lots of mothers, formula is the only way to feed their babies.
I’m not saying it would be easy, and I’m not without sympathy for your difficulty, but if no baby formula were available starting tomorrow, you would find a way to feed your baby. Not only that, but the world would then someday be a better place.
There are many mothers that can’t breast feed for one reason or another. No, you can’t feed babies regular milk. All the good stuff in regular milk was killed when it was pasteurized, which is why it has to have vitamins and minerals added. As Jack LaLanne once said, “Cow’s milk is perfectly fine for baby cows, but not for humans”.
You also cannot all of a sudden decide to nurse your baby. If you don’t breastfeed soon after childbirth, the breast milk production stops. It’s not possible to just start nursing a 2 or 3 month old, let alone a 9month old that needs a certain formula that can be tolerated. It really is an emergency especially for those intolerant, ie., milk/soy protein problems. All of this just adds to the utter chaos in almost every corner of our lives!
Not all mothers can nurse.
And not all babies are able to be breast fed.
Happened in my own family with a relative. Thank the Lord they were able to buy formula for their child.
This is an interesting sub-thread, because people seem to be arguing that they cannot make it without reliance on corporations and government, and that is simply not the case here. There was a time without baby formula, after all. What happened was that other lactating mothers would pitch in, sometimes just for the convenience of a rich mother. I remember that happening with friends when our children were small. It’s not the way we do things these days, and it may seem weird or objectionable to some people, but there is a whole world of coping skills out there that has been lost since the industrial revolution got rolling, and we are just beginning to explore it.
There are a myriad of DIY formula “formulas” going around right now, and many are pretty good. No, I’m not including that junk recipe from the 1950s that included Karo syrup (corn syrup). There’s no magic in what the sellers of baby formula put in; some of the good DIY ones begin with goats milk, and add in lactose, DHA, vitamins, and even EVOO in some cases. There are many variations, but everyone can do their own research and make up their minds.
Same trick worked for them with mRNA gene therapies. Fauci is a huge proponent of mRNA “vaccines” but knew public would not accept gene therapies for infectious diseases…..unless a “dire” situation was imminent….in this case, one created by Fauci funding and pushed as a ‘global pandemic’…..set up the false/enhanced narrative, scare the hell out of folks, negate treatments he knew could work (he knew from SARS that HCQ could work for SARS CoV-2)…..and suddenly a population willing to be ‘saved’ by accepting gene therapy for an infections disease [as a bonus for Fauci, one that was never sufficiently tested to reveal the dangers]…….now it’s a ‘thing’ and Moderna is going full bore with the same technology.
Substitute ‘baby formula shortage’ for ‘SARS CoV-2 pandemic” and “government takeover of industry” for “mRNA gene therapies”…….what better way to create a ‘crisis’ than baby formula shortage…..a crisis where folks will accept government control of production and distribution of a product…..when, in fact, the shortage was planned to create a back door for the further introduction of communism.
This pervasive evil must be stopped……whatever it takes
So, if they take control of all ingredients does that mean that additives will be controlled as well? What about added vitamins / supplements?
They’ve been noodling around with how to shut us down from the ability to work around big pharma and stay out of the healthcare system for quite some time.
Take Vitamin-C for example….There’s plenty of info, including peer reviewed studies and real world examples of how V-C can eliminate / cure many diseases.
Vitamin D fortified formula? Can’t have V-D available! It fights Covid!
Iodine? One ingenious Army doctor found that diffusing iodine into the air of his unit, just below the point where it made people’s eyes burn, decreased the instances of the Spanish Flu by >80%.
Sorry all you health conscious medical dissenters. Your ability to take care of yourselves must end. You will be dependent and like it!
I disagree Luz. It’s all part of the plan and Brandon is carrying out his orders as his handlers direct. It is not a “mess of mistakes”. That’s what they want us all to believe. Obama started the plan in motion and Killary was to complete it. My belief is Obama was to move slowly because he was younger and still had a few decades to live in the country and continue to push from behind the scenes. Killary, and now Joe (especially Joe), could be the fall “guy” to bring about the end because of their age. Joe is an even better choice than Killary because of his dementia and advanced age. He can be used and tossed aside, if he even makes it through this term. He won’t live much longer, and if he does won’t have any memory of his 4 years as the unelected, installed POTUS. Can’t testify if you have no memory. Everyone needs to stop looking at the stage and look behind the curtains.
We keep learning the size of the Swamp is bigger than we thought.
The FDA/WIC Role in the Baby Formula Debacle
There has by now been an acute shortage of infant formula in the United States for months. Despite government claims to the contrary, it is unlikely to end anytime soon.
This turn of events was utterly predictable. Indeed, it was all but inevitable, as the government agencies responsible for providing safe, readily available infant formula have been neglecting their mission for decades.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is a regulatory agency that exists for the purpose of insuring the safety and availability of certain products. One of the products for which the FDA is responsible is infant formula.
If infant formula causes harm, both the maker of the formula and the FDA are responsible. However, if infant formula is unavailable, only the FDA is responsible. No private entity has a duty to produce or sell formula.
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-fda-wic-role-in-the-baby-formula-debacle/
I keep expecting the day when all of these wokesters, who occupy the White House, will remove their expensive jackets, ties, pantsuits, and high heels and start coming to work in their old worn out tie-dyed t-shirts, holey Levis, and slip over dresses adorned with Mardi Gras beads and turquoise jewelry. Far out!
Once again, Biden and his administration failed to plan ahead and the American people suffer. Where was Becerra’s dept when the Abbot plant was shut down in February (an adminsitration spokesperson has admitted they were aware of the shutdown in Feb)? The plant that was closed made 40% of baby formula in the USA- and they didn’t think ahead to imagine that empty shelves, desperate moms, and sick babies would be the result????? This shows amazing stupidity, laziness or perhaps this is what they actually want??????? Biden is the WORST President in our history…I have to laugh when the leftist press declaim that Cawthorn’s defeat proves Trump is “losing his touch”- Trump’s endorsement count is 85 wins- 2 losses. The one candidate that Biden endorsed lost handily. I don’t think any Dem candidates are eve seeking Biden’s endorsements….
I’d like to believe that it was just Seepy Joe’s lack of atttention that resulted in this crisis for new moms, but let’s not forget that a brave Border Agent revealed to the press the pallets of baby formula stashed at the border for immigrants babies crossing illegally. This administration is importing unvetted millions and making sure their babies are fed, while taxpayers’ babies are starving…explain to me, Dems, how you can justify your support for this administaration which, in 17 months hasn’t gotten ONE THING right.
Sure.
Who could be opposed to the government trying to get food for babies?
And then, who could be opposed to the government for _______?
Etc.
Not sure but what do you bet the processed nutrients arrive by slow boat from China and then by $6 dollar a gallon fuel by truck to the factory that uses natural gas to process the mix at now a 300% increase in processing costs !
Thank Jobama and his band of appointed village idiots !
Job Well Done
Next up for state control…gas and food
read it and weep
How did people survive before formula manufacturing plants? How is it that folks used to make their own formula, but now they can’t?
There is no war going on to justify government defense production act. The Constitution is VERY clear that the feds can ONLY regulate interstate commerce (the buying and selling of goods or services between purchaser and seller).