What Can These Federal Bureaucrat Idiots Get Right?

CALIFF: The complaint was received. It was logged in right away. The ORA employees did their usual review. It went to OCI, the Criminal Investigations Unit because there were concerns. The decision was made then that the informant needed to be questioned and brought in to go over things. There were some issues that delayed it. I can’t go into details because they’re personal related that happened. We’re on record saying it took too long. And then on top of all that as I’ve already said, lack of escalation meant the senior officials were not aware until February 10th or February 9th.

BUCK: So that was Biden’s FDA commissioner Robert Califf talking about of course the baby shortage situation, shortage that is still ongoing.

You know, we saw some video. They flew ina C-130 or whatever, was a military transport plane of some kind of full of baby formula. A lot of coverage of that on CNN, but there’s still shortages across the country. They’re hoping it will get taken care of in the next few weeks. There was the Biden FDA commissioner Robert Califf saying he couldn’t go into detail about why it took, Clay, the FDA four months to respond to a whistleblower.

So anybody who is wondering here, how could we get to a point where babies don’t have the food they need to eat? Keep in mind the very real possibility that we are ruled by morons and it has gotten a lot worse under the Biden regime.

You also have the New York Times reporting that the FDA chief, of course, as we just heard some of his testimony there, but the Abbott nutrition plant in Michigan was shut down in February. It had a leaking roof, water pooled on the floor, and cracks in key production equipment, according to the FDA. He said it was “egregiously unsanitary conditions” in the Sturgis, Michigan, plant.

You know, you just think about, we have all these people that are walking around talking about how we need to make sure we don’t get too — you know, John Kerry says, “Keep your eye on the prize, folks. Yeah, things are rough in Ukraine, but we need Vladimir Putin to be with us on climate change issues,” you know. You have this whole government bureaucracy that’s trying to track CO2 in the air, and apparently we’ve got something worthy of Upton Sinclair from back in the day going on at Abbott labs.

CLAY: Historic — it’s The Jungle, to double down on your reference.

BUCK: And you sit here and you say, what can these idiots get right, honestly? What can they do?

CLAY: Here’s a good question for everybody out there listening. In your entire life, have you ever been like — “You know who does a really good job? Insert federal bureaucrat here.” Have you ever thought to yourself, you know, we’re really lucky that this person decided to spend their entire working career in the federal bureaucracy. I’ve never heard anybody say that, right?

I remember one of my buddies when we graduated from college, went to work at a big federal bureaucracy. and I remember him talking about the minute the clock hit five, the minute the clock hit five it was like you couldn’t even use the staircase because it was just a zoo. Everybody ran, immediately hit the staircase and went out.

BUCK: I worked for a huge federal bureaucracy for years, supposedly an elite, tip-of-the-spear federal bureaucracy. But the truth is, folks, a lot of coffee breaks, a lot of latte making, a lot of memo writing. I’m just gonna tell you, that’s the truth about the CIA.

And you also had someone, I remember he told me, you gotta remember that the value proposition across the board for — now, I’m talking about the economic value proposition —

CLAY: Yeah, right.

BUCK: — is always to do the minimum to get the pay you are promised, and that is it.

Now, there are people who go in, obviously, serve their country in the military, serve their country in a whole range of capacities where serving is part of the pay in sense, right, like being on mission is why you’re there.

CLAY: I’m talking about like a federal bureaucrat sitting at a desk.

BUCK: Department of agriculture, like, a lot of those folks are just kind just punching in, punching out.

CLAY: Yeah. And again, this is why capitalism works, right? If you have an incentive to make more money then you’re probably gonna work harder at your job, right? That’s just a general rule.

So it doesn’t surprise me as much as I wish it did that the FDA would completely drop the ball when it came to insuring that we have baby formula on the shelves and also it doesn’t surprise me that a nincompoop like Biden would be far worse.

Whatever you think of Trump, do you think he would have ever allowed this situation with the baby formula to exist, or would he have been screaming at somebody and actually made them do their job?

BUCK: I think the FDA chief would have been terrified to walk in and tell the president when it was Trump. “Sorry, sir, people can’t feed their babies.”

Trump would have said, “You’re fired.”

CLAY: I think you’re right.