A major Biden administration plan to inject more competition into the meatpacking industry has led to an Iowa chicken farm going bankrupt and leaving the landscape dotted with 1.3 million federally euthanized animals Chicken carcasses. Minnesota-based Pure Prairie Poultry, the recipient of a $6.9 million grant and a $38.7 million USDA-guaranteed loan, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in September to higher than expected costs and lower than expected poultry prices. It told Iowa it could no longer afford to feed its chickens and had stopped doing so at least two weeks earlier. One subcontractor said: “The chickens swarmed around her and pecked hungrily at her legs.”
Like so many disasters, this one began with a great idea from the risk Marxists who are creeping their way to the top of most federal agencies.
The Biden administration unveiled an initiative in 2021 to boost smaller meatpackers and lend a hand the U.S. food system avoid supply shortages like those experienced during the Covid-19 pandemic, when meat plant closures left livestock back on farms and some farmers caused animals to be euthanized.
If you, in the words of the prophetic James Carville, “carry a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you will find,” then you can imagine the impact of $325 million Introducing grants and $700 million in federal aid The secured loans to the meat processing industry increased everything but production and market share.
This project has depressed echoes throughout the economy.
The non-partisan infrastructure law, The deal signed by Biden in November 2021 included $7.5 billion for electric vehicle charging. Of that, $5 billion was allocated to individual states through so-called “formula funding” to build a network of speedy chargers along major highways as part of the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program.
But after two years, that program has created just seven open charging stations, totaling 38 spots, for drivers to charge their cars vehicles, said a spokesman for the Federal Highway Administration. (Funding is expected to be enough to build up to 20,000 charging stations, or about 5,000 stations, according to an analysis by electric car policy analyst group Atlas Public Policy.) Stations include Hawaii, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania and under construction in four other states.
The same fate that befell the bizarre charging station project also befell the grand broadband deployment plan Internet connections in rural areas.
Included in Infrastructure Act 2021The Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) approved more than $42 billion in grants to “provide reliable, affordable, high-speed internet to everyone in America by the end of the decade.”
“In 2021, the Biden administration received $42.45 billion from Congress to bring high-speed internet to millions of Americans,” Brendan Carr, the senior Republican commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), wrote in one Post on X (formerly Twitter) this month. “Years later, not a single person has been linked to these drugs. In fact, it is now said that construction projects will not begin until 2025 at the earliest.”
The Internet problem becomes all the more pathetic for how it looks purely political denial Elon Musk’s Starlink proposal to bring high-speed broadband to nearly 643,000 homes and businesses in 35 states.
The $5 Billion”Electric School Bus Programwhich was “intended to cover 389 school districts in all 50 states and help deliver a total of 2,463 electric school buses,” has only produced 60 vehicles.
Time and time again, the Biden-Harris administration has proven itself incompetent, corrupt and incompetent in everything it tried to accomplish. They can’t be forgotten quickly enough for me. Just by getting the US government out of the business of interfering in our economy, Trump could save a lot of money, eliminate the part of the bureaucracy that thinks they are modern-day tycoons, and make everyone a lot happier.
