FDA Allows for Chinese Processing

cassie said:

Just for the record, jobs started leaving the good old USA long before Governor Moonbeam came on the scene. Or Obama either. Remember Hershey? They had a big plant in Oakdale, CA. Gave tours, employed lots of people, plus it was a great tourist attraction for Oakdale. Several years ago it packed up lock stock and barrel and moved to Mexico. I haven't bought any Hershey products since. I just read an article in one of the recent Smithsonian magazines that mentioned in passing the dire poverty of the deep south because the companies that employed so many of the people there have gone to Mexico, or Pakistan, or India, or wherever, and nothing has come in to take their place. One of the major employers in my little town packed up and went to Mexico after promising its workers it was staying put. Burger King was going to move its corporate headquarters out of the country to avoid paying taxes. I don't know whether they did it or not. I hope they scrapped the idea. Both parties are to blame for this debacle and I don't think either of them have made it a priority to fix it. They might be a little more interested in doing so if they ever figured out that people who don't work don't pay taxes, and a lot of people who don't work don't work because there are no jobs for them to work at. Of course actually doing something constructive about this and other issues isn't nearly as much fun as pointing fingers and blaming the other party and each other.

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I was addressing California's obvious self importance. Federal Government law is preeminent to state law. And the Feds have the final say about agriculture policy. That's what happened when the Federal Court of Appeals overturned California's band on serving fat duck and goose livers. After the lawyers get theirs' the same laws that prevented George Wallace from blocking the school house door will jump up and bite Governor Brown on his Moon beam illuminated backside just like it did Wallace. What short sighted politicians like Wallace and Brown forgot (or never knew) is that in the 1900 Federal Census California was trailing Mississippi, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, and almost every other state in population. In fact California was only a few school buses in front of Kansas population wise. Never forget that California got to be (Pick one) the economic powerhouse or the basket case of America by encouraging business activity. Now California seems to be in a race to the bottom with Mexico to see which one can depopulate itself the fastest. For instance today California has 20 million more residents than just a few decades ago but the green community has refused to allow California to expand its infrastructure to take care of its population. If the population of California were dogs then her politicians would be guilty of animal abuse.

I saw this coming back in the 70s when California tried to get the US government to step in and reverse the flow of the Red River of the (Poverty Stricken) South all the way West to the Golden State. Unfortunately for California us Rubes dating our sisters here in the "poverty stricken deep South" proved to be a harder nut to crack than those cheese eaters up there in California's Owens River Valley because we forced Congress to give up this scheme.

German Law REQUIRES its companies to operate a closed or union shop, so the new VW factory in East Tennessee was in a bit of a panic when the WV workers at first declined their employer's attempt to get the oppressed, poverty stricken, and exploited VW workers to form a union.

You have a point but California has always been self important. That's why it is called The Land of the Fruits and Nuts. I don't know who coined that phrase but I thought it fit. I never understood why Moonbeam was elected in the first place though. It is not as if the good citizens of California did not have a preview of coming attractions. Moonbeam had been governor before. When he was elected this time it boggled what was left of my mind. But by then I had left California and settled in Missouri, a land that has its own strange quirks that have me shaking my head.

chickengeorgeto said:

I was addressing California's obvious self importance. Federal Government law is preeminent to state law. And the Feds have the final say about agriculture policy. That's what happened when the Federal Court of Appeals overturned California's band on serving fat duck and goose livers. After the lawyers get theirs' the same laws that prevented George Wallace from blocking the school house door will jump up and bite Governor Brown on his Moon beam illuminated backside just like it did Wallace. What short sighted politicians like Wallace and Brown forgot (or never knew) is that in the 1900 Federal Census California was trailing Mississippi, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, and almost every other state in population. In fact California was only a few school buses in front of Kansas population wise. Never forget that California got to be (Pick one) the economic powerhouse or the basket case of America by encouraging business activity. Now California seems to be in a race to the bottom with Mexico to see which one can depopulate itself the fastest. For instance today California has 20 million more residents than just a few decades ago but the green community has refused to allow California to expand its infrastructure to take care of its population. If the population of California were dogs then her politicians would be guilty of animal abuse.

I saw this coming back in the 70s when California tried to get the US government to step in and reverse the flow of the Red River of the (Poverty Stricken) South all the way West to the Golden State. Unfortunately for California us Rubes dating our sisters here in the "poverty stricken deep South" proved to be a harder nut to crack than those cheese eaters up there in California's Owens River Valley because we forced Congress to give up this scheme.

German Law REQUIRES its companies to operate a closed or union shop, so the new VW factory in East Tennessee was in a bit of a panic when the WV workers at first declined their employer's attempt to get the oppressed, poverty stricken, and exploited VW workers to form a union.

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I was not disagreeing with you at all. I was just adding that the steady outsourcing of jobs out of the country is spelling economic disaster here at home and nobody in Washington seems to notice. That said, California has always been self important. That's why it is called The Land of the Fruits and Nuts. I don't know who coined that phrase but I thought it fit. I never understood why Moonbeam was elected in the first place though. It is not as if the good citizens of California did not have a preview of coming attractions. Moonbeam had been governor before. When he was elected this time it boggled what was left of my mind. But by then I had left California and settled in Missouri, a land that has its own strange quirks that have me shaking my head. I'll get off my soap box and shut up now.

cassie said:

. Remember Hershey? They had a big plant in Oakdale, CA. Gave tours, employed lots of people, plus it was a great tourist attraction for Oakdale. Several years ago it packed up lock stock and barrel and moved to Mexico.

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I grew up around Turlock, and it was my dream to work at that Hershey plant. All the unwrapped chocolate you could eat . To the 5th graders taking the tour, that was the coolest job in the whole wide world!

I also remember when you were driving past, and the wind was right, you could smell both the chocolate from them and the tomato from the Heinz (was it Heinz?) plant. NOT a good olfactory combo.