Headline #1:
A new strain of antibiotic-resistant E.Coli has left 18 dead in Europe
Headline#2:
The GOP wants to cut funding to the USDA and the FDA
Under the Mountain Bunker puts it this way:
And the very serious GOP wants to cut funding to the USDA and the FDA. The invisible hand will take care of the need for testing — certainly corporate farms and dairy and meat processing plants don’t need MORE regulations when they’re testing as often as sporadically.
This situation actually would be like a Circle of Win for the GOP:
- Sporadic testing + funding cuts to regulatory agencies = even LESS testing and regulation
- Therefore, more people may contract the new Staph infection + many without medical insurance = deaths
- Dead people who couldn’t afford medical care probably weren’t working anyway, so + less federal / state spending on UI benefits and food stamps = more money for extending tax cuts to the corporate farms and processing plants!
- oh, and JOBS! Somehow.
