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.
I dont know that I can read about children starving to death, because they lack baby formula.
Our government is out of control and Republicans share the blame, maybe not half of it, but most of them did not stand up and FIGHT against Covid lockdowns.
Republicans are 100% to blame for their part – not resisting this takeover.
Resist!?
They are silent partners in this.
Exactly.
Republican office holders bear almost all the blame. Only they could have nipped this descent in the bud by using the prestige of their office to oppose and vilify their adversaries with as much zeal as they themselves were repeatedly, and cruelly opposed and vilified.
Each Dem advance in their acquisition of power occurred within the political realm as an overt act that was never resisted (comity, don’t you know!).
The remainder of the blame goes wholly to the Marxist Media Conglomerate which continues to be this Nation’s greatest and most dangerous scourge.
Ordinary citizens can’t be blamed for a depreciating currency which renders their working hours more futile and hopeless, thus pushing the cost of living beyond their capacity to cope. They have been lied to as to the nature of inflation, who is to blame for it, and what practical solutions would remedy it.
Thus, for the bottom third of the electorate, to choose to vote for Democrats as a block can’t be judged so harshly given such a large, generalized knowledge gap that grows even as we speak and thanks to the continued and ramped up lies that Dem media propagates.
So, yes. Republican officeholders bear almost all the blame.
The single exception is, of course, Donald Trump whose tenure in office will be viewed with increasing admiration and amazement, not only for his uniquely great accomplishments, but also for having fearlessly opposed the vipers’ nest that was his own party.
They share half of it. It is their job to stop the evil from the other side, unless they share it.
Do not give them a pass!
They are ONE HUNDRED PERCENT responsible for their refusing to serve the AMERICAN People!
ALL REPUBLICANS ABSOLUTLY SHARE AND AT THIS POINT SHOW US THAT THEY ARE COMPLICIT BY THEIR SCREAMING SILENCE ON ALL OF THIS!
DO NOT MESS WITH OUR CHILDREN !!!! ROOOARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
I have no clue why all you are own goaling this. Think please.
Because you don’t HEAR any Republicans they’re to blame? Tell me, on what news outlet will they appear? The same ones that won’t speak about 2000 Mules? Twitter? Farcebook?
Go ahead, list all those news outlets that feature conservatives. I’ll wait.
Lindell TV
The Stew Peters Show
The Sentinel Report
Bannons War Room
Or a stolen election. Time is running out. A National strike is one plan. I’m tired of talking about the same issues. Action is required at some point.
I am not sure what it might look like, but forcing MAGA domestic terrorists into action, could be a Donkey plan. Then, of course martial law would be necessary before the fall elections. I’m just speculation out loud?
Martial law would most likely mean NO elections.
Exactly!
Getting WW3 started this summer would work as well!
Preferably against ever paying taxes again for starters. I for 1 did not sign up to pay for wars or illegals, nor all the other happy clap trap like govt pensions et all! 😡
If people arent going to take advantage of abortion, our globalist government will starve children to reduce the surplus population.
/S
Not reducing population, exchanging it. As families with established history die, or are killed off, they’re being replaced by the droves of uneducated flowing across the southern boarder. It might take a decade or two, maybe a generation or two.
Reducing and exchanging are not mutually exclusive.
This morning there was a link on Breitbart about two TN babies hospitalized for lack of baby formula.
With more to come I suppose.
The leftists use that to justify violent protests in response to a crisis they deliberately created.
Sadly yes, they they use even that.
Thank you for posting that image. It is my favorite quote and I use it often, so now I will have the full image/quote.
Make your own baby formula. Ingredients are obtainable and there are plenty of recipes out there.
Relying on this government to provide it is a bad move.
I have been saying they will remove the Carnation milk and Karo from the shelves “for your own good” since the government is advising not to make your own formula.
If people start making their own formula, the government will have to step in and control alternatives.
ITS FOR THE CHILDREN!
In fact, government should control and ration everything we use or consume.
Its for our own good and government knows best!
Good, let them. It’s crap that should never be fed to babies.
I heard from a reliable source it may later turn male infants into soy boys and lead female infants to later question their womanhood.
Just like fluoride in our dinking water, formula is designed to do overall harm!
/S
Spread self sufficiency & independence. Formula is a 1st world problem on which we do not have to depend. Throw sand in their faces & the gears.
https:// http://www.westonaprice. org/
It is so disappointing to see so many Americans display such absolute dependency on the gubmint. People are really that clueless, that helpless that a shortage of the chemical concoctions they feed to their children would make them drop to their knees before big daddy?
My take on that is that the lamestream media is gaslighting us. Again. The level of panic is contained within WIC participants who already have rings in their snouts.
Equity huh? So that means everyone from here to China and back except white Babies. FJB.
Whites have had it too good.
They need to catch up to the rest of the world in experiencing chronic suffering.
Thats globalist equity.
/S
Remember, Democrats are superfans of Eugenics, so black babies are at grave risk. Heartless liberal women are at the forefront of the effort to extinguish children.
I read today a post that will stick with me forever: “No kid can trust a liberal mother – by nature. Liberal women just can’t be trusted, not even if one’s life depends on it.”
Wow.
I’m not sure how even uber mentally impaired leftists can’t see what is coming.
Wilfully blind deaf and dumb.
Their mantra: “Putin and Trump are to blame. Biden will save us.”
Repeated early and often.
By design they fill the roll of useful idiot.
Venezuela. This is how they do it.
Starve their people to Death. The Communists favorite weapon.
The Duarte 40 lbs. loss weight diet.
Starving people are too weak to resist effectively while at the same time die off, reducing the population.
Win-win for globalists.
The global swamp will try to kill us every way they can, but I do believe that us Unruly, Uncultured Americans may be starving but we will defend ourselves tooth and nail till our last breath ! Especially where we protect our precious treasure human baby Cubs!
This would make our civil war look like child’s play as we defend our children babies, young, teens and grown !!!
Would you be surprised if Fauci created a new FDA approved baby formula that triggered a chemical hormonal imbalance in developing infant brains that induced feelings of homosexuality?
If they can’t kill ’em fast enough by aborting them before they’re born, they’ll starve them afterwards. These people are sick pieces of $hit.
Sick and the definition of evil.
And I ask, why do we Americans put up with this huge steamy pile of poo of an administration?
They are willfully driving us off the cliff.
Because they havent experienced any meaningful resistance and figure they won’t get any.
Yet we are warned again and again to not fight back because we will have martial law imposed.
We are already living under soft martial law, and it is only going to get worse yet we do not fight back because we might get pushed around by our won government?
We would end up in jail line the J6rs
This is happening because Establishment (crony cartel corporatist) Republicans like Georgia Governor Brian Kemp collaborated with marxists to defraud Americans of their chosen leader President Trump. They did so because their corporate masters have a shared goal with international leftists: the destruction and replacement of the Historic American People. We get to choose at the ballot box between the party of anti-white marxism and the party of open borders cheap labor over all.
That may not be the box that decides this!
Well, they made an example of Kemp’s daughter’s boyfriend, who was burned to death in a rare, highly suspect inexplicable car accident.
Harrison Deal was 20 years old and Loeffler’s staffer.
He dated Kemp’s daughter
I dont think Biden knows about the Baby Formula Crisis Obama created.
The only Baby Crisis he & his ilk are concerned about are not enough child sex slaves for the Child Predators that permeate The Swamp & every school in the nation.
Another reason to get millions of illegal aliens & their children/anchor babies into the nation ASAP.
What DOES Biden know?
About anything.
Now the infant formula problem will get out of control. Not only couldn’t mom’s find it, now with the pathetically incompetent leftist Demented Fraud administration in control of its manufacturing and distribution prices will skyrocket
Don’t worry, we’ll subside the cost of production and when that fails price controls will be initiated.
Are we ever gonna recover from the brutal crush down of everything that they can crush us down with!?!
It was a good run. Too bad they ruined it for us and our grandchildren.
Equity requires that transgenders and/or “birthing people” get the first picks of the production.
Elon wouldnt be making Starlike (Edit – starlink) if he didnt know something was up.
thats a seperate outside of our commerical and business system.
fire and fire has us ‘mentally’ running around as they are doing something….
“… and the authority to determine distribution equity (who gets it).”
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White babies need not apply.
Do these steps to our ruin line up neatly with other’s, like, say Venezuela? Take-take-take, until it’s all in their grabby hands.
Equity means minorities, refugees, Ukraine and third world nations first dibs and paid for by our government.
Everyone else on their own.
Babies in Florida are at risk.
LOL, and nobody will do a d@mned thing about it.
not until the agreed times of power change arrive – Nov 2022 and Nov 2024. better not miss this opportunity. They dont have to win by legal votes and they get to stay in until the next election. there are no rules.
“This afternoon Joe Biden invoked the Defense Production Act…”
Just to be clear, a statute written to facilitate war-time production is being invoked to make baby formula because infants are essential for national defense??
Christian Warren: Yes. Infants have been weaponized in the Commie Culture Worz®
We can overcome this food shortage by feeding Leftists to all the hungry babies.
That woud be child abuse .
Leftists are toxic.
Backhanded way of confirming we are at war….
As we have been. For some time now.
An undeclared war of government against certain of its citizens.
This is why I asked, in your previous post…
Other than Breast Milk, what was used to feed newborns…say 100 years ago?
Goat’s milk.
I was given vitamin D whole milk. Turn out ok being a legend in my own mind😏
evaporated milk/karo syrup and goats milk naturally homogenized
Oh, there was plenty of commercial baby formula being sold 100 years ago. Humphrey Bogart was among the infant “models” used by his mother, a commercial artist illustrating ads for various baby foods and formulas around 1900. That industry was big by the 1920s. The original, familiar Gerber Baby charcoal sketch is from 1928.
Past formulas have been primarily based on cow’s milk because it was cheap and plentiful, but there have been soy-based formulas for lactose-intolerant babies for over 50 years.
Do you know of a formula substitute for babies that are both lactose intolerant AND allergic to soy?
There’s a comment in this thread about barley water. Perhaps worth a look.
They all belong in the chair for the body
Then God can do the rest
I don’t get it why don;t parents call thier peditrician if they can;t
get formula and ask them what they can feed them till they
find some..I mean all anyone does is tell parents don;t
make homemade, don’t water it down. But they give them
no guidance as to what they should do..if they run out
and can;t get any.
Call the Doctor ask them what you should feed the baby till you
can find some.. Surely they must have some idea? There are homemade
recopies from before there was baby formula and woman who
didn’t breastfeed made thier own.. Millions of kids didnt\die from that.
I can see not wanting someone to use it longterm but heck wouldn;t
that be a better than your child starving? for the short term
Jenevive:
The ongoing baby formula shortage has many parents concerned, but there is no need to panic.
These simple, easy-to-make recipes will provide your little ones with more nutrition than anything they could ever get from a store-bought powder.
Each of these recipes was lovingly created by the nutrition experts at the Weston A. Price Foundation (WAPF), which is dedicated to teaching people about whole foods made traditionally for optimal health.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-05-13-make-baby-formula-at-home-healthier.html
My oldest was born in 1968. Doctor said use Similac. After a few months, he said it was okay to switch to whole milk with just a dash of Karo syrup. Other military wives I knew at the time did the same thing, and I don’t recall ANY babies that didn’t tolerate whole milk.
Jenevive: Many pediatricans are too fearful of saying or doing anything not approved by the local and state medical commissars who report to the Central Committee for Medical Politics in DC.
Plus, many pediatricians probably could not even prepare a meal for themselves without a smartphone, a gift certificate from Williams Sonoma, and hired help.
Obamacare – Step 1 to Medical Tyranny.
Doctors are not nutritionists. They write prescriptions.
That would be “no yoke.”
This is where the social credit score comes in. No baby formula for you!
Eh I’m just going to say it… Trump did the exact same thing under the fake covid scam to General Motors, General Electric, Hill-Rom, Medtronic, ResMed, Royal Philips, Vyaire Medical, 3M.
I’ll emphasize that I support NO USE of a war time act without having an official declaration of war by ANY president!
Abuse of power is abuse of power.
Also I’ll add (after reading comments)… You have to be a special kind of stupid to believe that a lack a baby formula is an emergency… It isn’t.
What did parents do 30 years ago before there was a mass market and manufacturing for this luxury product?
Hint, it wasn’t starve children 🙄
“I support NO USE of a war time act without having an official declaration of war by ANY president!”
+1
Christian Warren: I’ll add another +1 to yours.
It is a power grab. It is rooted in pure evil. It is enabled by ignorance.
Trump considered using the war time production act, but did not use it. Big difference.
what was his method called?
Incentivising production with government assistance , contracts, cutting red tape and personal persuasion.
Every company I named trump DID use it against… I stand by the accuracy of my statement.
You are right and I stand corrected.
I do know that he rejected early calls to do so and was criticized for not going far enough when he did finally used it in limited ways.
https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/mar/23/has-president-donald-trump-invoked-defense-product/
Trump did use the wartime production act for covid.
Federal Register :: Prioritizing and Allocating Health and Medical Resources to Respond to the Spread of COVID-19
There are at least 4 more Trump EOs expanding this as necessary.
Here are all of Trump’s EOs from 2020.
Federal Register :: Executive Orders
But somehow none of them come across as this (fascist) or that (socialist).
I replied to you Dev, but it is a reply to all in the chain of replies following your comment.
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Just in case some do not remember, the “War on Terror” is still in effect , IF I am not mistaken. Continued on from GW Bush thru the Obamination years & thru DJTs admin & now into the Fraudulent & Illegitimate current one pretending to be a PotUS.
Being if that is the case that the “War on Terror” has been continued since 9/11, then the use of that Act would be warranted, even if its’ use is sketchy.
Not trying to argue at all, with anyone, ( and willing to be corrected, if I am mistaken),
just pointing out that the Act could still be legally warranted since we apparently are still at War with Terrorism.
God Bless ya’ll~!
You know what else applies during our War with Terrorism? That would be capitol punishment for TREASON.
A lack of formula is an emergency.
If you use formula, get the recipe and stock up on the ingredients. I’d never be dependent on this government to feed my baby. My guess is red states and rural or white people will not get access to formula.
Exactly Lulu.
Most home made formula’s are simple and have just a few ingredients yet parents now days are in a panic when it comes to feeding their children without being able to buy factory formula.
Good advice about finding a recipe and stocking up on the few simple ingredients.
And their children will be better off and healthier for it. Have you ever read the labels on some of these baby “foods”? Most people would not put these chemical concoctions in their own bodies, yet they are “safe” for children? And people wonder why there are so many dreadful childhood illnesses?
Never let a good crisis go to waste. Create one if necessary.
I can only imagine what they will put, in which formulas, to give to whom
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God, please forgive for what we have wrought and protect these innocents – and give us the strength to face and to fight, without fear, the evil that is upon us.
You have an objective.
I asked for readers to submit alternatives to baby formula.
They did.
You are now blocking it.
Why?
Who are you talking to?
Herself, perhaps?
Don’t fidget.
Sometimes comments get put into administrative review for no evident reason only to reappear unexpectedly.
Thank you for contributing your formula recipe.
🙂
KC…..You are a new commenter to the Treehouse, and as such, your initial comment was held in “moderation”. This happens to EVERYONE who is new. You waited a whole SIX MINUTES before you wrote this comment declaring you are being “blocked”.
WHY?
I’ve checked further, and it looks like you modified your email address from a “.com” to “.net”….therefore, our moderation filter saw you as a NEW commenter. In the future, stick to the exact same username and email address, and you should have no further problems.
Who has an objective??? And WHO was blocked???
Does anybody else love CTH admins like I do???? Thank you all for all you do.
Liability
Ha! Sundance ain’t skeered of no ‘liability’!
Biden invokes Defense Production Act after OBiden Regime intentionally causes the Baby Formula Shortage which was also timed with the intentional Supreme Court Leak. HHS Sec Xavier Becerra, a self-described abortion absolutist, is now in charge of infant formula manufacturing and distribution 🤡🤡🤡
Well, Pete Buttigieg said that he has his stock ascertained. In other words, he’s hoarding to make sure that his children are supplied, but this administration only calls it hoarding when it is someone other than Pete, like maybe your average working or middle class family.
This is so sad.
The way to move forward is to look learn and respond in kind.
Many can sit up at night getting tormented by a wrong decision or an unfriendly face but the ONLY way to move forward has been shown to you in the form of CRT blow back…….
Many committees are losing their hold……school officials are now concerned for their jobs….. heck even the navy took down some 42 woke books last week…..
The message is getting through….and all you have to do is fight back….get out today and see what you can organise to take back your country…..and do it in November……
Show them the good people of the USA……..
baby formula is a new thing in human history.
most mothers can breast feed more than one baby.
the companies that produce the formula have the CEOs that would lie to you
to make a profit from COVID. time to rethink.
There are a lot of mothers on drugs and can’t breast feed due to the drugs. The government and WIC people know this.
the exception makes the rule.
in LA women get pregnant with unwanted babies because of liberalism, but they always bring the case of fathers raping their daughters. Liberals see everything through their immoral lenses.
Hard to imagine that drugs in breastmilk would be more dangerous than whatever our loving government puts in baby formula!
By the time Biden’s team gets done with the initial meetings and memorization of preferred pronouns for the group members, Abbott will have resumed sending out formula for 6 months and half the impacted kids will be on to solid foods. Their priority is to appear to be doing something, not to be effective at serving the American public.
Can the illegitimate Obama administration be sued for manufacturing a crisis?
Make sure you judge shop and The Courts above it all the way.
Remember when Trump used persuasion and patriotism to get corporations to step up for ventilators, medical equipment, etc? No need for the DPA if you serve the people.
One could easily define all food as “health resources” and soon they will.
Will we need to sign-up for the food allotment ration card or will they be mailed out to every household like the stimulus checks?
What will Xavier do about the massive supply of formula that is now being given to the illegals invading this country at the border ?
Sanjac: Thus the use of the magic word, “equity.” Works like a charm.
How long before each jar includes some kiddie vaccine for Chicom cooties?
Genie: “Now spike protein fortified!”
“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.”
Of the infant formula:
1) Joe Biden
2) Sean Hannity
3) Marl Levin
I remember when they pushed Trump to use it and knowing it was a very, very, bad policy.
It’s like handing out unlimited free candy at the world’s largest parade.
and they didnt use any of it either
the ventillators, the ships, the pop up medical tens nationwide
Something so wrong with this picture this FB censor.
Just about anyone over 40 had homemade baby formula until they could tolerate milk, especially the people whose mothers could not breast feed them. My oldest was on homemade formula from the age of one month until she could tolerate milk.
Bet in many countries babies are still having homemade baby formula.
delivery system. they want control of the baby entry delivery system.
they get what they want.
1) complaint at the sole plant in the country, knowing it sparks a recall and shut down immediately
2) do nothing and wait
3) enact your wartime thing- using this as the reason
4) crush America – no energy, low food, baby trauma from illness to control parents to GET IN LINE (DO AS TOLD)
This is what my mom used on me and it didn’t kill me
Couldn’t breastfeed my oldest so she was about 3 weeks old when I used it on her. We unusually didn’t pump back then so used it off and on with my other two.
They all over 50 now.
A friend is a pediatric clinical pharmacist, has been upset over this for years: some of the companies had been sending samples for medical NGO’s to provide a limited (2-3 weeks) supply to new mothers in developing countries, not limited to those who cannot feed the newborns. Then, the mothers are out of formula and out of options.
That is the plan. No other options. However, there are always options for the resourceful and self reliant.
Becerra Is a walking piece of crap.
Hes a perfect fit for Biden’s admin then.
Avoid product with the Wuhan label.
and anywhere else in China, for that matter.
Government takes over. That should fix the problem for sure.
Government considers us the problem that needs to be fixed.
They are there to help/
Simply present your infant’s proof of vaccination to secure your limited supply.
There will be rationing. You can only line up for formula ration on even and odd days based on your infants birth date.
/S
No, you will line up if you are a person of color on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. If you are not a person of color, you must submit 3 forms, get government approval in 3 or 4 months, and can pick up formula on every other Thursday between 10-11:30 am.
Brilliant!
You need to pass this on to the Biden admin stat.
Just in case it hasnt yet considered this itself.
“Bill Gates, baby formula and climate change for $1000, Alex…”
Just another created crisis to keep you occupied and your eyes off what’s really going on financially in the world order.
Also some folks stand to profit. Imagine that, follow the money.
will be very interesting to see whether working moms will take this, um, lying down.
Just wait until this administration starts floating the idea of adding a little pinch of mRNA “vaccine” to the formula. Maybe they’ll tell us, maybe they won’t. Considering what they’ve gotten away with so far, and continue to get away with, is it really so far-fetched? Embedding it in the food supply through the agricultural vector (lettuce, etc) has already been put out there as a possibility for pursuing. And of course big pharma and the FDA are full speed ahead on “clot shotting” every young child in sight right now. If we’ve learned anything, do not put anything past people.
Create the problem to enable more government overreach.
Exactly how government works and expands.
Distribution Equity.
Who lives, and who dies.
The government is already heavily involved in the baby formula industry. The government buys a great deal of formula for its WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) program. Almost half of US mothers are in the WIC program, which is a welfare program for women and their young children. I guess this new directive will affect the remaining US mothers who are not in the WIC program. Now all moms and their infants will be dependent on the US government, whether they want to be or not.