mookiemcgee wrote:Lol, I read the article. Let's give your quote some context:
Egg prices are high because bird flu means we gotta kill all infected chickens when we find them, supply down.
Bird flu spreads fast when birds kept too close together
Trumps plan to reduce prices is to spend $1b of taxpayer money, and remove “unnecessary burdens” such as regulations in some states that prevent chickens from being kept to close together
A month before leaving office Biden approved contract for 600m to moderna to create vaccine for bird flu.
New HHS spokeperson says they are cancelling it and says “While it is crucial that the U.S. Department and Health and Human Services support pandemic preparedness, four years of the Biden administration’s failed oversight have made it necessary to review agreements for vaccine production,”
Good times!
Of course, No President and his Administration and his policies can control the spread of this disease. The only proven way so far is to KILL all infected birds and others in the same flock/immediate area. AND reading the attempts to control this outbreak and the development of a vaccine, an mRNA one as I recall, reminds me A LOT of the attempts to control the outbreak and spread of COVID in 2020.
And of course, killing all those chickens, especially egg-laying (for commercial sale) will have an impact on egg prices and THAT is beyond the control of any President. And OF COURSE this Administration, about ONLY 2 months in office, will blame the predecessor.
AND: My joke would have been better if I found an image and been able to post of "egg on face."
Some jokes don't make it out of the dumpster.
AND, as I have said before, a President gets too much credit for success and TOO much blame for failures. This reminds me of the quote attributed to JFK:
John F Kennedy once said, “Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.” The historian Tacitus provided an earlier versions of this sentiment with, “This is the unfair thing about war: victory is claimed by all, failure to one alone.”
https://dailystoic.com/success-many-friends-failure-orphan/#:~:text=After%20the%20failure%20of%20the,.%E2%80%9D%20It's%20an%20old%20idea.and:
"... victory has 100 fathers and defeat is an orphan..." --"President's News Conference of April 21, 1961 (139)," Public Papers of the Presidents: John F. Kennedy, 1961.May 11, 2023
https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/life-of-john-f-kennedy/john-f-kennedy-quotations#:~:text=.%22%20JFK%20Library.-,%22...,Kennedy%2C%201961.
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2025 9:46 pm
