… so I cheered up and sure enough --- things got worse!
To the Biden Administration --- Congratulations! You have officially moved the United States of America from the worlds leading first world country to a third world country --- The baby formula crisis!
There was a time not so long ago that America could feed the entire world. When the Russians and the East Germans dropped the Iron Curtin on Berlin stopping all movement into and out of that city it was the United States that organized the Berlin Airlift. The largest sustained airlift in history. It brought tons of coal for heating and food for eating to the entire population of West Berlin.
So tell me again how the United Sates ran out of baby formula!
When Hatti suffered an earthquake of enormous strength that crumbled a majority of the housing in Hatti. There was no shelter, no electric, no clean water and no baby formula. It was the US that came to the rescue deploying the US Military to bring shelter, power and food to the citizens of Hatti.
So tell me again how the United Sates ran out of baby formula!
Then there was Hurricane Maria. A Category 5 storm that ravaged the Island of Puerto Rico in 2017. There were over 3,000 dead and $91 Billion in damage. There was no power, no clean water and very little shelter. The government was criticized for its slow response but in the end it was the efforts of the US military that provided a measure of relief. But I honestly don’t recall there being a shortage of baby formula.
So tell me again how the United Sates ran out of baby formula!
So here we are --- the first C-17 US Airforce heavy lift aircraft has brought us 75 tons of European manufactured baby formula. We have seen the images of the cargo being off loaded and the Secretary of Agriculture standing on the tarmac acting like the Administration is performing a heroic act on behalf of the American people. By all accounts that should temporarily solve the shortage for about half a million mothers. But the story does not stop here.
We now learn that the formula flow from Europe to America cannot be distributed to US outlets until the FDA samples it to make sure that it meets US standards for formula. Now understand that this formula is manufactured by the same companies that manufacture it in the US and European manufacturing standards and quality are as it turns out more stringent than those of the US Food and Drug Administration. So the agency responsible for this kerfuffle in the first place by shutting down a factory that had absolutely nothing to do with the death of two babies now takes it upon itself to tell American mothers that the relief they though was coming … is not coming to soon.
I believe that we are running out of ways to express how we feel about the incompetence of this Administration. An administration is nothing more then the people who are responsible for the policies that are set by the head of the administration in this case Joe Biden, and I believe that Americans have run out of expletives to describe this administration. From the prices at the pump to the checkout line at the grocery store, Joe Biden and his Administration are an abject failure and there is no relief in sight.
November 8th will be our first opportunity to start a change in how America is going to recover its leadership role in the world, and we will no longer have to suffer the embarrassment of the USA running out of baby formula. It is the power of the ballot box that will save America. VOTE November 8th 2022.