192 REPUBLICANS DECIDE THEY’D LIKE FORMULA-SEEKING PARENTS TO KEEP SUFFERING

If only 2% of our formula was imported and that is a worldwide figure what percent do you think came from Canada?

 

What, specifically, did Biden do to cause this particular problem of formula shortage?

 

In fact, there were no imports of Canadian formula to the US in 2021 "because of the confusing USMCA regulations and expensive tariff-quotas".
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/protectionism-red-tape-hinder-baby-formula-resupply-analysts-say

 

They're certainly are some things that a nation should not be dependent on imports for.

 

why don't they just hire a wet nurse? i posted a link to the dept of agriculture pamphlet on making formula. that sounds like what my great g'ma did for us kids. .

 

Geebers, you folks always reach for the easy to grab, over simplified, often wrong headed, explanation for so many things. The cause is more nuanced than the "gubmint did it."

America’s addiction to monopolies caused the baby food shortage
https://qz.com/2167097/americas-addiction-to-monopolies-caused-the-baby-food-shortage/

 

The thing to do should have been done a decade ago.

They should have confiscated it from the agency's giving it away to illegal aliens.

 

It is the governments addiction to monopolies. Since the first antitrust acts were passed in the late 1800s exactly two monopolies have been broken up standard oil and bell telephone. Mergers which beyond a certain size need government approval are almost never turned down by the government. And this has been going on since Roosevelt NRA took us from more than 40 car companies to five.

 

For some yes

Not every woman has enough milk and since America does no have maternity leave some have to use formula because expressing at work is too inconvenient/ not allowed

 

“Magic wand” thinking

 

Yes and in those days the infant mortality rate was higher.

Bottom line “home made” is a hell of a lot more tricky as the Nestle baby formula scandal of the seventies showed

http://archive.babymilkaction.org/pdfs/babykiller.pdf

Given the choice between a workplace unfriendly to breastfeeding/expressing milk and a free government program allowing purchase of formula I can see a repeat of the 1970s in America. The issues here appear more complex

 

Nah, they just need to do what they need to. They do not need more people.

 

That's really funny because of coworker of mine went on maternity leave last year

 

I believe that, not every body is the same.

Wait, there’s no maternity leave???

 

I guess she thinks that every American woman just works right up until the minute the contractions start.

She does believe a plethora of strange things about America.

 

It’s not that I don’t think all tits are useful in some way. And I’m guessing some people don’t have maternity leave. But who? Even McDonald’s has it. And it’s not like someone “ahem” screwed this up in the first place and wants a measly 28 million to not even fix the problem!

 

Closely examining anything isn't in a leftists DNA.

I was going to mention those things, but why bother. It just bounces off their foreheads like a tennis ball.

 

The US has provided at least 98% of it's own formula since at least 2006.

 

And people think I'm a cynic?

 

Not all women can breast feed. Got any other snarky, misogynistic remarks?

 

See my reply above to your fellow mouth-breathing knuckle-dragger.

 

Look it up. Who In America grants the Maternity leave seen in other countries? We have PAID maternity leave and workplace health and safety have pushed for safe areas where women can express milk

 

And that is through an oligopoly- hence the current crisis when one of those manufacturers decided to put profit above infant safety. you are just lucky it was not Melamine added to “boost” the protein content like they did in China

 

For how long and is it PAID leave?

https://vitalrecord.tamhsc.edu/fast-facts-maternity-leave-policies-across-globe/

You want to reduce abortions? Fix this

 

Yea, I do. I can also do Mephistophelean and demeaning, and there’s a string of snappy metaphors cooking. Do you have a preference or is dealers choice your style?

don’t you worry, unlike those kids I’ve got a winning formula.

See? I’m stacking ‘em up over here! Oh, and I’ve mentioned 3 times I’m aware that some of those sacks are just broken. Speaking of, how many broken jimmy hats caused this problem? None, third world people use them to mule drugs in their prison wallet. Speaking of wallets, is that what it looks like after a dozen or so unwanted kids? Now that you mention it, how many of these unwanted and hungry champs could hang off my magnificent pecs at once for a bodybuilding.com shoot?
The answer is 4.