Posted on 01/26/2011 8:44:55 AM PST by jmaroneps37
The news that several major Cruise Lines are leaving California and/or cutting back cruises to the “Mexican Riviera” presented a dilemma to the media. The story caught them between two facts, neither of which they wanted to report.
They tried quarantining it and smothering the story to mitigate the damage to California’s Democrat, but they had to explain why the lines were leaving the Ports of San Diego and Los Angeles. It was a genuine lose – lose for the steno pool. Nevertheless, here’s the elements of this story not being reported.
Why they’re sailing away
The first reason the ships are abandoning California are the oppressive taxes they are forced to pay in order to feed the once “Golden” State’s spending addiction.
Since California already has a “reported” $26 billion deficit, the notion that a liberal Democrat like Jerry Brown, supported by a liberal Democrat Legislature, will raise taxes is as sure a bet as the daily tides. They’re fleeing the new taxes they KNOW are coming.
Second is the extreme violence taking place in the “Mexican Riviera.” It isn’t hard to see the cause and effect between the sickening carnage Acapulco awoke to on Saturday January 15 when 28 bodies (including 15 which had been decapitated) were found on its streets and the unusual (last straw) Saturday afternoon announcement that the major Cruise Lines had paid enough seen enough and were leaving almost immediately.
Keep your new terminal
“….Apparently the cruise industry was so eager to flee California, even a new $28 million Port of San Diego terminal, packed with the latest amenities, opened November 5 2010, meant nothing in its final deliberations. Now less than three months later tax hungry California and murderous Mexico have rendered that new terminal a “white elephant.”….
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The union dock workers cost an arm and a leg.
Democrats aren’t content getting golden eggs from a goose; they want to strangle it.
Eff em. The Pritzkers are close friends of Obama and Arison is no better. Their liberalism created this.
It didn’t help that Carnival Cruise’s flagship vessel in the area caught on fire and has been out since November.
But besides that, they did move one of their other Riviera cruise ships - the Carnival Spirit out of San Diego - to Australia in 2012. However, it wasn’t a year-round ship to the Riviera anyway; the vessel spent a lot of the year doing Alaskan and Hawaiian cruises.
Out of curiosity, what proof do you have that Micky Arison is a lib?
I mean, he renounced his US citizenship for Israel for tax purposes.
Other than that, a quick Googling shows no real political involvement, unless I didn’t spend enough time doing it.
You can call a democrat hack a lot of things but you can never call them one thing smart.
Baloney,, tell me where dock workers would be cheaper ANYWHERE else in the USA. It’s Kalifornia Taxes. Even more than Mexican violence. Are they stopping their other cruises to Mexico on the esat coast?
Disney running a new ship out of Port Canaveral. “Come on down!”
Anyone that vacations or visits Mexico on a cruise is subsidizing illegal immigration.
Cruise ships are heading out of Bayone, NJ to New England, Canada, Bermuda, & the Caribbean. They’re doing well.
I just did a search for cruise lines departing from LA. I found 63 different itineraries, 145 sailings and 9 different cruise lines.
Hmmm...
Mexico right now = Afghanistan
CA is going to have Prop 13 attacked and undermined at every turn by Brown. If this happens you will see lots of people lose their homes unable to keep up with the taxes. Plus they are already talking a 4% tax on your home if you move out of state.
California is sick in the head regarding the leadership of the state. They spend and behave like they are all on crack IMO.
Their money helps prop up the government which encourages them to come here
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