Baby formula shipment arrives from Europe,
providing ‘some relief’ for US families
Guardian [U.K.],
by
Ramon Antonio Vargas
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
5/22/2022 10:44:49 PM
A top White House economic adviser on Sunday said he was hopeful there would be more baby formula on American store shelves this upcoming week, especially after a plane full of the product arrived from an airbase in Germany. Brian Deese, the director of the National Economic Council, told CNN State of the Union host Dana Bash that the plane carrying 70,000lb of baby formula–enough for half a million bottles–from Ramstein airbase in Germany which landed in Indianapolis on Sunday morning should cover about 15% of the product’s nationwide shortage.(Snip)When asked how the US ended up needing to fly in baby formula from another country,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Ribicon 5/22/2022 10:45:28 PM (No. 1163248)
FTA: "When asked how the US ended up needing to fly in baby formula from another country, Deese bluntly blamed the manufacturer Abbott, who apparently spent windfall profits on filling the pockets of investors and neglected to replace failing equipment which likely introduced dangerous bacteria to its infant nutritional products and set the stage for a recall that has wreaked havoc on the nationwide supply, according to financial records and whistleblower documents."
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
PostAway 5/22/2022 10:55:27 PM (No. 1163254)
I was in Calgary, Alberta, Canada over the past week and went to a grocery store downtown where the shelves were full of Enfamil, Similac and other baby formula beans. No one I spoke to knew of a baby formula shortage.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Northcross 5/22/2022 11:04:03 PM (No. 1163259)
"Windfall profits filling the pockets of investors". Is Deese auditioning for Chief commie propagandist? Or maybe Biden's next press secretary?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Fasteddie 5/22/2022 11:07:53 PM (No. 1163261)
I'll be interested to see which "favored" political group is allowed by the Biden administration to purchase any of this.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Blue Hen1 5/22/2022 11:13:19 PM (No. 1163266)
Going straight to the border
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Catherine 5/22/2022 11:21:13 PM (No. 1163269)
I admit to be somewhat skeptical of a huge food shortage coming in this country. But seeing that this government cavalierly is letting infants starve, yeah - they'll sit and watch us starve. Other than voting, we don't know what else to do. We've never faced disgusting people who hate us running our country before. I'm afraid there will be one thing that sets everyone off - don't know what it will be but I suspect when the WHO tries to tell us what to do, that might be it.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
velirotta 5/22/2022 11:48:15 PM (No. 1163283)
Uh, 70,000 pounds? For the whole United States? Is this a joke? Who gets it, and who doesn't?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 5/22/2022 11:56:05 PM (No. 1163284)
I heard somewhere...enough for 9,000 babies for one week....
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
snakeoil 5/23/2022 12:44:05 AM (No. 1163301)
If there was an ice creme shortage Quid Pro Joe would have solved it in 10 minutes.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
smokincol 5/23/2022 12:51:50 AM (No. 1163303)
as a people are we supposed to be rejoicing and jumping for, so-called, joy ... I don't think so and if diapers takes a victory lap on this, whatever the hell they want to call, he ought to be boiled in oil and set out for the vultures to clean away his derelict, worthless carcass
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 5/23/2022 2:07:09 AM (No. 1163325)
A drop in a bucket. Not worth doing.
Compare to 100 semi's rolling to 10 warehouses, and each semi can carry probably 50,000 lbs of the stuff. And the semis can be 100 more the next load.
Pathetic. TV show stuff, not really significant.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
LaVallette 5/23/2022 3:28:48 AM (No. 1163334)
"Brian Deese, the director of the National Economic Council, told CNN State of the Union host Dana Bash that the plane carrying 70,000lb of baby formula–enough for half a million bottles–"
As the Australians would say: "Hooray F_ck!": less than one bottle, for every American baby, per day!!!!!!!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
LadyVet 5/23/2022 5:48:46 AM (No. 1163375)
The plane lands in Indiana, home state of the chest feeding Sec of Transportation. Indiana was not a state with severe shortage. Shipment will go to doctor's offices, hospitals. It will be available next week (maybe). If they had sent this to WalMart in Arkansas, it would already be on shelves and widely available. But parents will probably have to stand in line at some government distribution center in some area where you will have a high chance of being carjacked when you leave.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
NancyD 5/23/2022 6:41:44 AM (No. 1163406)
My husband worked as an automation/electrical engineer for a baby formula manufacture years ago.
The gov't regulates and controls the industry. They award contracts to manufacturers for WIC recipients and that decides whether or not the manufacturer will be profitable or not.
Everything the gov't touched it DESTROYS.
That plant shut down and he lost his job. The baby formula that they made was good product, it was used in many hospitals across the country... Such a shame.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Red Jeep 5/23/2022 7:17:39 AM (No. 1163435)
So America has fallen on such hard times that she now depends on European airlifts to feed her babies?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Pinkpanther 5/23/2022 7:37:38 AM (No. 1163450)
My SIL told me the shortage actually began around September of last fall, NOT February of this year. She said she had a hard time finding formula back then and had to drive about 40 minutes to find it.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Ragman73 5/23/2022 8:17:51 AM (No. 1163495)
Does anyone remember the old WW11 films of planes, tanks and other weapons rolling off the assembly lines of Ford, GM and other companies to supply the war effort? America, quickly converted to "the arsenal of Democracy". And now we can't quickly make enough baby formula to feed American children? Going "hat in hand" to Europe for help? #2 mentions shelves full of formula in Canada. Why aren't the networks reporting/showing this? Folks, we are being "played"- big time.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
lakerman1 5/23/2022 8:58:07 AM (No. 1163533)
I have seen no discussions about 'just in time' inventory practices in drug stores.
I personally hate 'just in time,' made possible by managers who were fools and addicted to computers. When my physician writes a prescription for me, it is because I am sick. I hate it when my pharmacy tells me, 'we don't have this, but it will be here in X days.'
)On one frustrating day, I challenged my RiteAid pharmacy to give me 30 days of records of prescriptions filled at h that store, without the names of the patients, and I would, along with my son, create a purchasing process where they would never run out of a particular drug. Their response? An amused smile at me, the cranky old man who wants his medicine!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
MDConservative 5/23/2022 10:19:56 AM (No. 1163621)
Let's all cheer the HEROES who donated, trucked, loaded, and flew this vitaal material to the US. Leader of the Free World...unable to feed its most needy children with dairy intolerance. Meanwhile, our neighbors and "good friends" are flush with the stuff needed - while our poor babies are left to "convulse" on home brew alternatives. (Does anyone believe that?)
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Mr C 5/23/2022 10:59:20 AM (No. 1163650)
15%=15 out of 100.....soooo, will only the Ill Eagle Babies at the boarder be the only ones to get fed?...No wonder Luciannes pictorial rendering of Kamalala's Boarder fixing!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
DVC 5/23/2022 11:14:22 AM (No. 1163667)
RE #18. JIT (just in time) production is a very legitimate cost saver, not just some game that people dreamed up with nothing better to do. JIT avoids the substantial costs of warehousing parts for factories, and goods for stores BUT it requires a VERY stable and predictable supply chain. REQUIRES it. And we don't have it any more. Dems and "offshoring" to China have destroyed it.
When huge swaths of suppliers have moved to China, and we have unions and the government destroying the effectiveness of the ports in California, and the ChiComs shutting down numbers of cities for their Wuhan virus again, the whole concept of JIT is out the window.
Supply chains are broken. This REQUIRES warehousing of parts and consumer goods to absorb the fits and starts of unreliable factories, which themselves have unreliable supplies of their necessary input goods. It's multilayered unreliability. Again - huge amounts point back to China where we have stupidly put our trust and moved too many of our factories.
JIT isn't playing on computers, it really is a good way to lower the costs of manufacture of goods, which can be reflected in lower costs and/or higher profits. With the Dems in charge, and the untrustworthy ChiComs in a prominent (too prominent) position in most supply chains, JIT is becoming a failed concept after many years of it working well. Many factories have had critical components delivered "JIT" several times per day to keep their production lines working, successfully lowering inventory costs. But this is why so many auto lines are down - trusting ChiComs for your computer parts.....beyond stupid. And no warehouse to pull them from to absorb even a day of lost production. EVER trusting the ChiComs is a fool's errand.
Get your supply chain OUT of China if you have any desire to have a reliable supply.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 5/23/2022 12:43:43 PM (No. 1163741)
That is 2.24 ounces for each of those half million babies. Yay! They are saved. (for about an hour, maybe)
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A government official come right out and slanders a private company, assuming the accusations are false. And if they are and if a lawsuit goes in Abbott's favor, the US taxpayers will bear the cost. Is this a great country or what?