{"id":10310,"date":"2010-09-22T10:40:20","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T14:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=10310"},"modified":"2010-09-22T10:40:20","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T14:40:20","slug":"which-comes-first-the-deficit-hawk-or-the-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=10310","title":{"rendered":"Which Comes First: The Deficit Hawk Or The Egg?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eggs are sickening.<\/strike> Eggs are sickening people<\/a> all across the US. Thousands of people. And much of the problem can be tracked back to one egg producer: Austin J. DeCoster. He's the owner of many huge egg producing plants, and has been sickening people with his salmonella-tainted*<\/sup> eggs since the late 1970s.<\/p>\n

We could obviously stand to have better egg safety regulations in this country. And there's a bill in the Senate that promises to help. However, one Senator is holding it up<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A Republican senator is threatening to hold up food safety legislation that would give the Food and Drug Administration more power to prevent outbreaks, saying Democrats must find a way to pay for it.<\/p>\n

Republican Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma says the bill, which has stalled in the Senate for more than a year, adds to the deficit and expands the power of an already troubled agency.<\/p>\n

...<\/p>\n

The legislation has broad bipartisan backing in Congress and support from the food and restaurant industries.The House passed the bill over a year ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Adds to the deficit ? Interesting. How much?<\/p>\n

Coburn agrees that food safety needs a complete overhaul but says the current effort is disingenuous because there is not any money dedicated to it. The Congressional Budget Office estimates it will cost $1.4 billion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

$1.4 billion! That sounds like a lot of money!<\/p>\n

I wonder what else costs $1.4B.<\/p>\n

Well, seven days in Afghanistan<\/a> costs $1.4B.<\/p>\n

Given $1,400,000,000 , you can fund the US Department of Defense for 17 hours<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n

Yeah, I think we can find a way to pay for it.<\/p>\n

* - than he manages to rub all those eggs on his taint is impressive, however.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eggs are sickening. Eggs are sickening people all across the US. Thousands of people. And much of the problem can be tracked back to one egg producer: Austin J. DeCoster. He's the owner of many huge egg producing plants, and has been sickening people with his salmonella-tainted* eggs since the late 1970s. We could obviously […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}