More BAD news for Americans from Bush.

[Sergeant Stinger1]

Lobbying groups said that the Bush administrations proposed $10.6 million additional increase for food safety is 10 times less than needed.
The rise in the number of Americans hospitalized due to food borne illnesses has increased from 400 in 2000 to over 3,000 in 2004.
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I wonder if it would help if we all changed our names to JOSE and MOHAMMA.
Those are all the people that the Bush administration seems to be spending OUR TAX money on.
In 2003 Bush choose William Boykin a known speaker at evangelical christian meetings to head the persuit of Osama Bin Laden and made more than $60 BILLION available to religious groups.
That sounds good to me because after we die from food borne diseases we can get a great send off from these now richer religious groups to meet our maker.
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You can call me "JOSE GONSALVES." What name will you chose?

 

[1069]

Well, I dunno about all that racist shite, but I have noticed that there have been near-constant national outbreaks of food contamination and food poisoning lately.
I wondered if somebody was dropping the ball somewhere along the line.
It's undeniable that the frequency of these food-poisoning incidents are on the rise; they've risen exponentially during my lifetime, it seems.

 

[jfuh]

Well, I dunno about all that racist shite, but I have noticed that there have been near-constant national outbreaks of food contamination and food poisoning lately.
I wondered if somebody was dropping the ball somewhere along the line.
It's undeniable that the frequency of these food-poisoning incidents are on the rise; they've risen exponentially during my lifetime, it seems.

It's not really any surprise to me. To support the war, just about every other governmental agency that hasn't had many "problems" has had huge budgetary cuts. Some long overdue, some way over board. The USDA has had huge cuts and is by far the most productive out of all the departments. Where have much of these funds gone to? 1, homeland security to do essentially the same damn things but at twice the costs for "national security reasons".
2. to make up for the "money that just disappeared" from governmental contractors in Iraq

No one seriously thought that this war was just paying for itself now did we?

 

[Sergeant Stinger1]

I first thought that the increasing food problems could be from terrorist.
However, there are too little problems to equate that to the terrorist.
Or are they just starting out?
I really think it is because of the illegals picking or handling of our food. We have enough trouble trying to control the hand washing and other cleanliness problems in restraunts that are being checked fairly often never mind the illegalls in the fields that companys have no control or desire to control anything.
I mean lets not think that in the picking fields they have portable toilets and hand disenfectant every 1/2 mile.
In the town of Bristol R.I. they host the longest running 4th of July parade with as many as 500,000 people attending the parade. My guess and opinion would be that like the picking field companys the people running that parade and the officals there probably don't wash their hands after urinating or whatever so why would they worry about 500,000 other people doing the same.
A few years ago they finally put a few portable out houses around the parade route after complaints from the last 200+ years that people were urinating on their front lawns during there 6-24 hour stay there. I mean, did they think that the 500,000 people there that are drinking all day would just "hold it" for 6-24 hours?
So even in a town they don't seem to want to controll cleaness, imagine what goes on in a field about 100 miles long and wide.

 

[Sauwan]

No one seriously thought that this war was just paying for itself now did we?

Didn't Cheney say something like the war would pay for itself or is that just an online myth? I couldn't find it with a quick Google search.

 

[Thelost1]

i don't see what this has to do with illegal immigrants*, but I think that there should be very severe penalties for distributing "bad" (for lack of a better word) foodstuffs (and medicines too).

*As in, Cool it! You can't blame everything on illegal immigrants.

 

[tryreading]

Didn't Cheney say something like the war would pay for itself or is that just an online myth? I couldn't find it with a quick Google search.

I think at one time or another everybody in the administration said the Iraq operation would pay for itself:

Paul Wolfowitz: "the reconstruction of Iraq will largely pay for itself,”

Reality of the Iraq War - FCNL Issues


Paul Wolfowitz: "We’re dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon.”

Donald Rumsfeld: “I don't believe that the United States has the responsibility for reconstruction, in a sense…[Reconstruction] funds can come from those various sources I mentioned: frozen assets, oil revenues and a variety of other things, including the Oil for Food, which has a very substantial number of billions of dollars in it."

Donald Rumsfeld: “If you [Source: worry about just] the cost, the money, Iraq is a very different situation from Afghanistan…Iraq has oil. They have financial resources.”

Richard Armitage: “This is not Afghanistan…When we approach the question of Iraq, we realize here is a country which has a resource. And it’s obvious, it’s oil. And it can bring in and does bring in a certain amount of revenue each year…$10, $15, even $18 billion…this is not a broke country.”

Ari Fleischer: “Well, the reconstruction costs remain a very -- an issue for the future. And Iraq, unlike Afghanistan, is a rather wealthy country. Iraq has tremendous resources that belong to the Iraqi people. And so there are a variety of means that Iraq has to be able to shoulder much of the burden for their own reconstruction.”

Iraqi Oil Will Pay For This

 

[jfuh]

Didn't Cheney say something like the war would pay for itself or is that just an online myth? I couldn't find it with a quick Google search.

I believe that runs into that other thread about taking Cheney seriously, the guy is nuts.
Though I do believe it was the administrations claim that the war would pay for itself, just don't recall who stated it

 

[Sergeant Stinger1]

i don't see what this has to do with illegal immigrants*, but I think that there should be very severe penalties for distributing "bad" (for lack of a better word) foodstuffs (and medicines too).

*As in, Cool it! You can't blame everything on illegal immigrants.

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Billion's of our tax money is being spent on the illegals when it should be spent on Americans. This is just one of the examples of the cuts being made to Americans while the billion's keep on going to the illegals.
A 12 year old boy just died (of a toothache) because his family got cut from Medicad.
THANK you Mr and Mrs politicans for taking care of the illegals and cutting Americans health care!!!

Not that I expect these lowlife politicans to feel any guilt from this SAD death!!!

 

[Thelost1]

I could honestly care less about this kid, it's an appeal to emotion.

Plus, the war is costing more.

 

[Sergeant Stinger1]

I could honestly care less about this kid, it's an appeal to emotion.
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WOW! Sad that you feel that way about any kid!

 

[Thelost1]

No, it's not that sad at all. I didn't know him, his family, or anything about him. Lots of people die.

 

[Hoot]

Meanwhile, the American taxpayer gets screwed because of the arrogance of a few men.

Past Comments About How Much Iraq Would Cost

The Bush administration promised reconstruction of Iraq could be financed through oil revenue, which they said would provide tens of billions of dollars. However, according to the New York Times, devastated and decrepit production systems leave the country “unable to make any significant contribution.”

Press Secretary Ari Fleischer: “Well, the reconstruction costs remain a very -- an issue for the future. And Iraq, unlike Afghanistan, is a rather wealthy country. Iraq has tremendous resources that belong to the Iraqi people. And so there are a variety of means that Iraq has to be able to shoulder much of the burden for their own reconstruction.” [Source: White House Press Briefing, 2/18/03]

Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage: “This is not Afghanistan…When we approach the question of Iraq, we realize here is a country which has a resource. And it’s obvious, it’s oil. And it can bring in and does bring in a certain amount of revenue each year…$10, $15, even $18 billion…this is not a broke country.” [Source: House Committee on Appropriations Hearing on a Supplemental War Regulation, 3/27/03]

Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz: “There’s a lot of money to pay for this that doesn’t have to be U.S. taxpayer money, and it starts with the assets of the Iraqi people…and on a rough recollection, the oil revenues of that country could bring between $50 and $100 billion over the course of the next two or three years…We’re dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon.” [Source: House Committee on Appropriations Hearing on a Supplemental War Regulation, 3/27/03]

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld: “If you [Source: worry about just] the cost, the money, Iraq is a very different situation from Afghanistan…Iraq has oil. They have financial resources.” [Source: Fortune Magazine, Fall 2002]

State Department Official Alan Larson: “On the resource side, Iraq itself will rightly shoulder much of the responsibilities. Among the sources of revenue available are $1.7 billion in invested Iraqi assets, the found assets in Iraq…and unallocated oil-for-food money that will be deposited in the development fund.” [Source: Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing on Iraq Stabilization, 06/04/03]

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld: “I don't believe that the United States has the responsibility for reconstruction, in a sense…[Reconstruction] funds can come from those various sources I mentioned: frozen assets, oil revenues and a variety of other things, including the Oil for Food, which has a very substantial number of billions of dollars in it. [Source: Senate

 

[Sergeant Stinger1]

No, it's not that sad at all. I didn't know him, his family, or anything about him. Lots of people die.

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Then I take it that you feel the same way about our Troops that are being killed daily that you don't know either.