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‘Pelosi Owns A $24,000 Fridge’: Pelosi Laments Vast Disparities In Americans’ Incomes, Hit With Backlash By Hank Berrien • Dec 31, 2020 DailyWire.com •

‘Pelosi Owns A $24,000 Fridge’: Pelosi Laments Vast Disparities In Americans’ Incomes, Hit With Backlash

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WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 29: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks at a press conference on Capitol Hill on June 29, 2020 in Washington, DC. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Thursday expressed outrage at Trump for what she said was his calling reports about Russian bounties on American troops, Moscow's interference in U.S. elections and coronavirus a hoax. — Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images

On Wednesday, at her weekly press conference, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi harped on the differences in economic status among Americans, stating that the coronavirus pandemic has “pulled back the curtain to reveal further disparities in our economy and in our society,” while adding, “Clearly, the disparities in income and equity in our country are vast.”

Citing the pandemic, Pelosi said that the economic disparities in the country had “gotten worse”:

This vaccine – this pandemic is horrible. I mean, in every way, the lives and livelihoods of the American people are affected by it in a massive way. However, it has also pulled back the curtain to reveal further disparities in our economy and in our society. They have become – come into sharper focus because of the pandemic. …
Clearly, the disparities in income and equity in our country are vast. We’ve known that. They’ve only gotten worse, and the pandemic, again, puts it in sharper focus. And that’s why I’m proud to announce the creation of a new bipartisan Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth, which will be a central force for the Congress to combat the crisis of income and wealth disparity in America.

Pelosi’s comments elicited blowback that pointed out her own vast personal wealth, which is estimated to be roughly $114 million, according to her 2018 personal financial disclosure, as Fox News reported.

pelosi owns a $24,000 fridge. https://t.co/zNPQlF2bED
— Logan Hall (@loganclarkhall) December 30, 2020

The ice cream she has in her fridge costs more than the salary you make in a month. https://t.co/OlRMdSoLkZ
— Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) December 30, 2020

Is she talking about herself and regular Americans here? https://t.co/IthJfQQI5U
— Chad Felix Greene (@chadfelixg) December 30, 2020

Oddly even after decades in office and millions in personal wealth, they never volunteer to reduce or donate their Congressional salary. https://t.co/IthJfQQI5U
— Chad Felix Greene (@chadfelixg) December 30, 2020

Last April, Pelosi got slammed over a “revealing” moment on an episode of “The Late Late Show” with James Corden. As she spoke from her Napa Valley mansion, Corden asked her to “share something from her home,” prompting her to cross to to two massive built-in refrigerators and slide open a freezer drawer. She later posted the moment on Twitter, writing, “We all have found our ways to keep our spirits up during these trying times. Mine just happens to fill up my freezer.”

We all have found our ways to keep our spirits up during these trying times. Mine just happens to fill up my freezer. #LateLateShow pic.twitter.com/dqA32d5lU1
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) April 14, 2020

Joe Biden lauded Pelosi, tweeting, “You have great taste.”

You have great taste, @SpeakerPelosi. https://t.co/96cJJaBHFW
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) April 14, 2020

Pelosi’s actions prompted withering criticism online from both sides of the political aisle. Actor James Woods snapped, “Her two refrigerators together cost $24,000 for her specialty chocolate ice creams, but she hates the small business owners of America. ‘Let them eat cake.’”

Her two refrigerators together cost $24,000 for her specialty chocolate ice creams, but she hates the small business owners of America. “Let them eat cake.” https://t.co/6ogIDP4QzT
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) April 16, 2020

Left-leaning journalist Glenn Greenwald chimed in, “Her two huge refrigerators by themselves cost more than many people make in a year. It’s so revealing that the politician Dems adore most is one of the richest members of Congress. Pelosi has been so rich for so long that she can’t see how tone-deaf this is. It’s her normal.”

Her two huge refrigerators by themselves cost more than many people make in a year.
It's so revealing that the politician Dems adore most is one of the richest members of Congress. Pelosi has been so rich for so long that she can't see how tone-deaf this is. It's her normal: https://t.co/IxH0tkyWLs
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 15, 2020

There were others: Author Jacob Bacharach quipped, “Everyone is laughing at this psychopath eating ice cream while on vacation as tens of thousands of people are dying, but has anyone *also* pointed out that she’s sitting in front of something like $30,000 worth of Sub Zero appliances in just this one narrow shot?”

Everyone is laughing at this psychopath eating ice cream while on vacation as tens of thousands of people are dying, but has anyone *also* pointed out that she's sitting in front of something like $30,000 worth of Sub Zero appliances in just this one narrow shot? https://t.co/1iG71QsnqJ
— Jacob Bacharach (@jakebackpack) April 15, 2020

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Government Fines Distilleries $14K For Making Hand Sanitizer During Pandemic Shortage By Emily Zanotti • Dec 31, 2020 DailyWire.com •

Government Fines Distilleries $14K For Making Hand Sanitizer During Pandemic Shortage

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Hand sanitiser that has been produced inside Pickering's Gin distillery at Edinburgh's Summerhall which is a community of small businesses and creatives that have had to adapt and innovate during the coronavirus outbreak. (Photo by Jane Barlow/PA Images via Getty Images) — Jane Barlow/PA Images via Getty Images

Distilleries who stepped up to make hand sanitizer during a coronavirus pandemic-driven shortage in the spring now owe $14,000 to the Food and Drug Administration because of a bizarre provision in the CARES Act that reclassified spirits manufacturers who chipped in as “monograph drug facilities.”

The San Joaquin Valley Sun first reported on the fine notices, which appeared in distillers’ mailboxes right before Christmas.

“Tuesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration unveiled a new set of fees for organizations operating as ‘monograph drug facilities’ producing over-the-counter drugs,” the outlet reported on Wednesday. “Hand sanitizer is one of those over-the-counter drugs qualifying for fee assessments by its producers – including makeshift sanitizer producers like distillers.”

“Now, the annual fees assessed by the Federal government are serving as the final, crushing financial woe to close out an already dismal business year for distillers,” SJV Sun added.

In some cases, as in California, distilleries were legally prohibited from operating tasting rooms and, like many businesses, distilleries across the country suffered a major downturn in business during the pandemic-related lockdowns. Reason Magazine reports that some 800 distilleries tried to soften the blow by manufacturing hand sanitizer — the primary ingredient in most hand sanitizer is ethanol, “which they are in the business of making.”

The FDA already complicated that process, demanding that the alcohol be denatured before distillery-made hand sanitizer could be sold on the open market — something even the World Health Organization does not require, at least in emergencies.

“Producing sanitizer is viewed as a point of pride in the distilling business, a way that they were able to help their communities in a fearful time of crisis,” Reason notes, adding that “no good deed goes unpunished.”

“At issue is a provision of the CARES Act that reformed regulation of non-prescription drugs. Under the revised law, distilleries that produced sanitizer have been classified as ‘over-the-counter drug monograph facilities.’ The CARES Act also enacted user fees on these facilities to fund the FDA’s regulatory activities. For small distillers, that means ending the year with a surprise bill for $14,060 due on February 11,” Reason reports.

Worse still, if the same distilleries maintain their license into 2021 and fail to update their status with the FDA — something very difficult in the span of time between Christmas and New Years’ — they could owe another $14,000. And it doesn’t matter whether distillers produced cases of hand sanitizer or only a few bottles, or even whether the sanitizer was sold or donated to desperate medical care facilities; the designation applies to the action, not to the quantity or the profit margin.

The CARES Act, of course, was an emergency coronavirus relief bill.

Distillers are shocked at the bill.

“I was in literal disbelief when I read it yesterday,” one California distiller, Aaron Bergh told the San Joaquin Valley Sun. “I had to confirm with my attorney this morning that it’s true.”

“At the beginning of the pandemic the FDA and our communities called out for help and distillers enthusiastically stepped up to the plate and provided an essential product to medical workers and first responders,” Bergh added. “It’s apparent the FDA has decided they don’t need us anymore and it’s in their best interest to suck us dry when we’re already struggling during the pandemic’s business closures.”

“Some of my hand sanitizer was donated,” Bergh added in a statement. “The rest was sold at a fraction of the market price. My goal was to get as much out as I could, at as low of a price as I could, while being able to bring my furloughed employees back to work. The hand sanitizer business saved me from bankruptcy—but I didn’t make an enormous profit.”

The American Craft Spirits Association told Reason that they are trying to assist craft distillers with the issue, but even they were taken by surprise.

“We recognize that this bill was not written specifically for the issue of sanitizer,” a representative from ACSA told the magazine. “The problem that we have right now is that [the fee assessment] is going out to a whole lot of small businesses who are struggling in the pandemic.”

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