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Re:MI officials fast-track bridge fix after man says it 'col... by kevingadd on Thursday May 19, 2022 @02:54PM (#31438588)
No blue state is actually okay with socialism at any higher level. The Democrat party leadership hates left-wing politics. Just the other day Pete Buttigieg was trying to explain how we can't solve baby formula problems the socialist way so children have to starve for the sake of factory owners:

> Biden’s secretary of transportation, Pete Buttigieg, has argued that this kind of socialist experiment would be unacceptable — even to stop babies from starving to death. “Let’s be very clear,” Buttigieg told CBS, “This is a capitalist country. The government does not make baby formula, nor should it. Companies make baby formula.”

(For the record, "Socialism" would not fix the US's bridge or baby formula woes because they are both the results of decades of neglect and bad policy that can't be undone in a year.)

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Re:MI officials fast-track bridge fix after man says it 'col... by uoaei on Thursday May 19, 2022 @03:12PM (#31438814)
I'm also a bit confused why that came up, considering he's head of transportation. Do they also concern themselves with manufacturing?
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Re:MI officials fast-track bridge fix after man says it 'col... by Mountain_Skies on Thursday May 19, 2022 @11:01PM (#31442873)
He had previous in the last couple of days mentioned that him and his husband were unable to find formula for their baby so the question likely came up again since he already had spoken out on the matter. I don't know the context in which it came up days ago. Perhaps it was in a more open ended "get to know" type of interview he was doing.
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Re:MI officials fast-track bridge fix after man says it 'col... by munk-a on Thursday May 19, 2022 @03:56PM (#31439351)
Biden's approval numbers are absolute garbage - I suspect he'll have a contested run in 2024 (or "voluntarily" decline to run) and all the sharks want to start getting their names in the headlines.
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Re:MI officials fast-track bridge fix after man says it 'col... by justbaker on Sunday May 22, 2022 @12:12AM (#31464827)
Right now I don’t see any way he’ll run knowing he won’t win.
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Re:MI officials fast-track bridge fix after man says it 'col... by munk-a on Sunday May 22, 2022 @07:04PM (#31473677)
Hubris is a hell of a drug.
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Re:MI officials fast-track bridge fix after man says it 'col... by thaumasiotes on Thursday May 19, 2022 @05:29PM (#31440411)
> “This is a capitalist country. The government does not make baby formula, nor should it. Companies make baby formula.”

Singapore would disagree that government manufacture of baby formula represents socialism. The government can do what it wants without impairing the market. Where socialism comes in is when the government intervenes to protect its baby formula industry, by barring competitors from participating in the market or by subsidizing its own formula manufacture with tax revenues.

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