The House Oversight committee announced Friday it will investigate the baby formula shortage affecting families across the country, asking for information on how the largest manufacturers are addressing the shortage, and how the government can ease supply problems from occurring in the future.
Make sure you pay attention to political fear mongering
dennis er dum
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Fox News has the right to its own agenda, just as MSNBC or CNN or CBS has the right to theirs. Everyone spins in their own way. Everyone orders the news based on their conception of what is news.
The Great Replacement Theory" has been a favorite talking point of Fox News superstar Tucker Carlson for several years now.
It’s a liberal plot, “to change the racial mix of the country,” Carlson told viewers on Sept. 22, 2021. "To reduce the political power of people whose ancestors lived here, and dramatically increase the proportion of Americans arrived from the third world…In political terms, this is called the policy of Great Replacement, the replacement of legacy Americans with more obedient people from far-away countries."
Other Fox News hosts, including Laura Ingraham, have also flirted with this idea.
There are any number of sane responses to this: from pointing out that non-white people have been part of this country exactly as long as Northern Europeans — African Americans are “legacy Americans” if anyone is — and that, with the exception of Indigenous peoples, literally everyone in this country is the descendent of an immigrant culture.
That’s when Republicans, desperate to hold on to political power, were spreading fear and paranoia about millions of Mexican immigrants wanting — how dare them! — resources and rights, and the inevitable decline of the state’s white population.
Tribalism is the biological loophole that many politicians have banked on for a long time: tapping into our fears and tribal instincts. Some examples are Nazism, the Ku Klux Klan, religious wars and the Dark Ages. The typical pattern is to give the other humans a different label than us, and say they are going to harm us or our resources, and to turn the other group into a concept. It does not have to necessarily be race or nationality, which are used very often. It can be any real or imaginary difference: liberals, conservatives, Middle Easterners, white men, the right, the left, Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs. The list goes on and on.
When building tribal boundaries between “us” and “them,” some politicians have managed very well to create virtual groups of people that do not communicate and hate without even knowing each other: This is the human animal in action!
The GOP leader also predicted the Senate would advance a motion to proceed to the $40 billion Ukrainian aid package on Monday and approve the bill on Wednesday.
When will it ends
Demons are ravaging the earth like never before
In some cases, the comments have gone largely overlooked given the hard-line immigration rhetoric that has become commonplace among conservatives during the Trump era. But a weekend mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, that may have been inspired by the racist theory is drawing new attention to the GOP’s growing embrace of white nationalist creed.
It’s no secret that the Republican Party has historically struggled to adapt over time; this should not be particularly shocking, as they are the conservative party. It is their mission to maintain the status quo and act as the proverbial toddler being dragged to the doctor’s office kicking and screaming the whole way.
$40 Billion… pledged by the Biden Government to the Ukraine…
Even the liberal leaning New York Times is asking the tough questions…
Out of control borrowing and spending while the American Economy burns…
Come on Joe - Joe Rogan is easily duped by basically anything on the internet
$5 trillion in Afghanistan. $2 trillion in Iraq. $40 billion is…
$23 Billion for a Border Wall on the US Southern border is also a drop in the…
Wait! We didn’t do that!
How did the US become 30 Trillion in Debt, One $40 billion drop at a time
By the way that 40 billion would give the 550K homeless 72K each, Yes we could end homelessness ( at least for a year) but instead we will waste it a conflict that cannot be won, this endless money printing will further devalue the dollar and adding more fuel to the inflation fire
Hi samewise, I have not seen you on this site before, while we might disagree on this one topic, new points of view are always welcome here, Welcome to the Thread
I heard about this ( baby formula ) American mothers can’t get formula as the government diverts supplies.
The one thing we can be certain of is " Its not biden’s fault"
My response is
Let’s Go Branden
Your blaming but without providing evidence of this, stop crying if you can’t prove your point
The FDA and Abbott Nutrition say they’re working fast to restart production at the closed factory, but it could take a while — and questions remain.
In mid-February, Abbott announced it was recalling various lots of three powdered infant formulas from the plant, after federal officials began investigating rare bacterial infections in four babies who were fed formula. Two of the infants died. But it’s not certain the bacteria came from the plant; strains found at the plant didn’t match the two available samples from the babies.
Relief could be coming, but parents like Bauerle probably won’t feel it for more than a month. Abbott announced Monday that it had signed a consent decree with the Food and Drug Administration that details the steps necessary to resume production at the company’s Sturgis, Mich., plant. Once the FDA confirms that Abbott has taken the initial steps outlined, Abbott expects to have the plant up and running in about two weeks, and formula should hit store shelves in six to eight weeks after that.
But even before the recall, there was a nationwide baby-formula shortage due to supply-chain issues related to the pandemic. The recall made a tough situation worse.