https://www.usatoday.com/story...xTeiRbRtVBr9VyUEl2_Q

So the government is investigating a problem caused by government. Sounds like SOP with those clowns.

Drives me crazy when politicians use the power of government to deflect attention from their own failures. Seems we go through this exercise every time there is a Democrat in office. Nothing is ever their fault. It's always "greedy corporations". (who for some reason only display their greed when Democrats are in office). These businesses are going to have to spend time and money dealing with this nonsense when everyone knows what the problem is. It's not right. The regulatory state isn't a weapon for Democrats to deploy whenever their polling numbers tank.

We'll be in bread lines before the leftist get finished saving us.

I can save them a bunch of time....

FTC: "Why is our amazingly complex economy not working?"

ANS: "Morons like you shut down random bits of it, and expect that not to have had any impact."

FTC: "What could we do to help?"

ANS: "Stop trying to help."

Really? Can this even be legal? Sounds terribly intrusive.

From the USA Today article...
Companies also are required to provide the FTC with "internal documents regarding the supply chain disruptions, including strategies related to supply chains; pricing; marketing and promotions; costs, profit margins and sales volumes; selection of suppliers and brands; and market shares."

Oh yeah. and don't forget to include those records of campaign contributions, we promise to not hold them against you.

Retailers are not required to sell their goods.

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Originally posted by bdylan:
We'll be in bread lines before the leftist get finished saving us.

Yep. Its incredible how fucking stupid the leftists are with their magical thinking. Venezul-usa.

From the article:

"As the holiday season got underway, President Joe Biden tried to reassure shoppers that his administration was working to ease supply chain problems. Businesses are working to overcome lingering effects of COVID-related shutdowns and now issues arising from the strong recovery that has generated more demand than many ports, manufacturers and retailers can handle.

The president spoke Monday with the CEOs of Best Buy, Food Lion, Samsung, Etsy and Walmart, among companies. The corporate leaders reassured Biden.

“While we’re all concerned about the supply chain, we have more inventory than we did a year ago, and we have the inventory that we need to be able to support the business,” Walmart CEO Doug McMillon said. “And we are seeing progress. The port and transit delays are improving.”

This isn't about fixing the supply chain issues. This is about the appearance of fixing supply chain issues. President Biden and his administration need to find a scapegoat(s), some evil straw man to blame, because the voters absolutely can not be allowed to believe that this mess is, in anyway, a result of their own inept corrupt policies.

A proper scapegoat will be found, perhaps more than one, government regulators will ride into punish them, and see, we told you it was someone else's fault...BIG government to the rescue. How silly and quaint you plebes are for thinking this was our fault.

The sad part is that some retailers and their trade organizations will fall in line, side with the Biden administration, and dutifully serve up some of their own, and probably negotiate some concessions for themselves while doing so.



https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3IlcDvXaUCw