Posted on 03/20/2009 4:28:14 AM PDT by jmcenanly
The mortgage meltdown exposed the weakness of self-regulation in financial markets. Now the salmonella outbreak is doing the same for the food industry.
A House subcommittee Thursday released new documents that showed how private inspectors contracted by Peanut Corp. of America failed to find long-standing sanitary problems at company facilities. Peanut Corp. is at the center of a nationwide outbreak that has sickened nearly 700 people and is blamed for at least nine deaths.
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And so the left moves to nationalize yet another aspect of our lives.
Obama and Co(mrades) are moving at breakneck speed to enact national socialism.
FYI: The peanuts that caused the outbreak came from China and Argentina.
Yeah I guess we are going to hear a lot of Anti-American Liberal Free Trader Globalist excuses....
Irradiate. Smart and safe.
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