Pelosi/Coons Elitism – Can the “good” republicans please come back?
Coons and Pelosi share a kind of delusional vision of the world where “good” Republicans exists somewhere and they need to return to pubic life.
By “a strong Republican Party” she of course means a party run by her social peers – not by the unwashed rabble.
You may recall that Coons expressed similar nostalgia for the more elite Democratic Party when asked about the fact that in the “good old days” of bipartisanship “Congress was a lot more homogenous”
I want to believe of our country and ourselves that a more diverse Senate that includes women’s voices, and voices of people of color, and voices of people who were not professionals but, you know, who grew up working class and were the first in their family to go to school and so forth, that we can engage those voices and that they can be part of the debate, and that that doesn’t produce irreconcilable discord.
I think history may judge otherwise, but I appreciate your raising both points.
There are two parties in the United States, but when the mask slips we see that those parties aren’t “Democrats and Republicans” or even “left and right” but “Ideologically Aloof (because they are rarely impacted by policy changes) and The Rest (of us poor suckers down here in the muck).”
Monopolies and the Baby Formula Shortage
As of 2018, four companies—Abbott (which makes Similac), Reckitt Benckiser (Enfamil), Nestlé (Gerber), and Perrigo (which makes store-brand formula)—control about 89 percent of the U.S. market. Any disruption to one of their products will be magnified, whether it’s a recall for Similac or inability to source ingredients. A few companies in the market relying on the same sources creates a much more fragile supply chain.
Keep in mind that baby formula consists mostly of dehydrated cow’s milk, vitamins, and a ton of sugar. Yet it somehow costs at least $150 and as much as $428 a month, high enough to sustain a mass crime ring even before the price jumped 18 percent over the past year. This is probably not as distressing to the oligopolistic companies selling the stuff as it is for families.
Today’s flag is Switzerland, the home to one of the worst, most ethically bankrupt companies in the history of capitalism – Nestle.
With sales people dressed as nurses, Nestle gave out free formula to mothers of new borns in developing countries throughout Africa, Asia and Latin America. Many of the mothers could not read the instructions regarding sterilization. These mothers took their babies home to homes without clean water or facilities to bottle feed, they were also unable afford to buy the amount of baby formula needed for the following 6 months so watered down the bottles with unsafe water. Babies died by the boatload, but ooh mama…those quarterly profits!!
The Swiss flag is one of only two square sovereign-state flags, the other being the flag of Vatican City.
