An Eggcellent “Crisis Opportunity” for Feds to Hold Another Industry “Accountable”

"Eggcellent! My plan is working!"

Less than half of a percent of American citizens have reportedly fallen ill due to a salmonella outbreak caused by ‘rotten’ eggs. Following a predictable pattern we’ve come to assume from the Obama Administration, they’re definitely not going to let this minor “crisis” go to waste.

CNN reports today that America is currently experiencing an “egg crisis,” encouraging stepped-up efforts by the federal government to crackdown on “risky food suppliers in the United States and abroad.” This headline news story comes in wake of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) chief Margaret Hamburg declaring yesterday, “We need better abilities and authorities to put in place these preventive controls and hold companies accountable.”

Does any of this terminology sound familiar? It should, because it’s another “crisis” the federal government and its cronies in the State-Run Media have created to convince American citizens that irresponsible businesses must be held “accountable” aka ‘over-regulated.’ Since President Obama has been in office, we’ve seen with the same tactics used to bring “fat cat” Wall Street bankers, health insurers, Detroit automobile manufacturers, British Petroleum, Toyota, and now, farms producing eggs, to their knees.

Right now, a supposedly “bi-partisan” Senate is working to pass the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510) and the current “egg crisis” is just the vehicle to stir-up public hysteria so it will be permanently enacted, and swiftly, as to avoid another non-lethal outbreak that temporarily causes severe diarrhea in 1,300 out of 310,073,946 American citizens.

Just playing with the numbers in this current crisis, let’s assume that these 1,300 salmonella victims at 2 eggs apiece. That would mean 2,600 eggs were potentially tainted. More than 550 million eggs were recalled without the Food Safety law even in place.

After the Food Safety bill becomes law, just imagine what sort of ‘regulatory’ measures will be taken by the FDA when it is empowered to call the shots and potentially shut-down farmers across the nation if another minor egg “crisis” occurs or head of lettuce allegedly causes someone to vomit. Small and family farms will be brought to a grinding halt and potentially forced out of business by whatever regulatory remedy the feds force upon them.

As White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel is fond of saying, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And, what I mean by that, it’s an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.”

How does this sound, Rahm? Let’s create a fake crisis, heck, let’s hit ’em with a swarm of crises (Whoa, looks like you’ve already done that. Our bad!) to win the public’s support for the nationalization of corporations, just like the dictators of every failed Socialist regime promised would bring a new era of stability and prosperity to the masses who had lost all hope in themselves and their governments.

Congress Pigs Out While Taxpayers Struggle to Feed Their Families

$10,673 spent at barbecue restaurants! Oink!

While Americans are struggling to put food on the table for their families, Members of Congress and their staffers are blowing tax dollars on fine dining and fast food. According to a new report from a government watchdog group, the House consumed $2.6 million worth of food and beverages in a recent nine-month period.

Democrats and Republicans are both guilty of gluttony, the Sunlight Foundation’s House Expenditure Reports Database reveals. $298,734 was spent on food and beverages by the Democratic Party’s largest offices (the Democratic Caucus, the Office of the Majority Leader and the Office of the Majority Whip) and $202,927 was spent on food and beverages by the Republican Party’s largest offices (the Republican Conference, the Office of the Minority Leader and the Office of the Minority Whip), AOL News reports.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) office managed to tear through $83,341 over the nine-month period. That amount is not included in the overall tab for the Democratic Party’s largest offices noted above.

Congressional Pages, the youngsters who lead Capitol tours and perform grunt work, enjoyed $140,027 worth of ‘free’ food, thanks to congressionally-charged-taxpayer-funded debit cards that are issued for use in cafeterias.

The report also shows Members of Congress’ fondness for a trendy new restaurant in town. $63,016 of your hard-earned money went towards wining and dining starving congressmen at Wolfgang Puck’s restaurant, The Source. And, you know it’s a budget-busting restaurant when the menu doesn’t have prices on entree selections.

Keeping the House buzzing all day long, $84,794 was spent on “coffee-centric companies.” AOL News notes that “7,743 pounds of coffee beans (at $10.95 each) could be bought with that much money” while “348,468 cups of coffee (about 45 8-ounce cups per pound) could be brewed from that many beans.”

And, congressional water coolers are, apparently, just for talking around. $604K was spent on bottled water.

What was President Obama saying about “fat cat bankers” on Wall Street and how taxpayers have a right to be fuming mad at them?

“They’re still puzzled why is it that people are mad at the banks. Well, let’s see,” President Obama said on Dec. 13, 2009. “You guys are drawing down $10, $20 million bonuses after America went through the worst economic year that it’s gone through in — in decades, and you guys caused the problem. And we’ve got 10% unemployment.”

The unemployment rate is still hovering around 10% and now we get wind that Members of Congress are pigging-out on fast food and fine dining while countless citizens are struggling to find money to feed their own families, let alone, themselves. Perhaps President Obama should take a peek down the road and crackdown on the porky politicians charged with responsibly administering tax dollars during an economic recession.