Posted on 10/11/2021 7:59:42 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A shortage of just about everything is looming ahead of the holiday season as hundreds of ships wait outside ports and rail yards clog up due amid a lack of workers and truckers.
President Biden assured Americans on Aug. 11 that "these bottlenecks and price spikes will reduce as our economy continues to heal," appointing a "port envoy" who would work with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
Biden said at the time that his administration was "bringing together the port operators, shipping lines, the labor unions, trucking companies, railroads, and others to speed up the port's operations."
But the Washington Post, which endorsed Biden in 2020, reported in an in-depth feature the "commercial pipeline that each year brings $1 trillion worth of toys, clothing, electronics and furniture from Asia to the United States is clogged and no one knows how to unclog it."
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said Monday the supply-chain disruption "is a crisis."
"This will impact every American, especially those who can least afford it," he wrote on Twitter. "It's past time for President Biden and Pete Buttigieg to explain what they're doing about this."
Cotton said Biden chose Buttigieg as Transportation secretary even though he was "completely unqualified," and now the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor "is absent during a transportation crisis that is hurting working-class Americans."
Buttigieg has said in recent interviews that "it's an incredibly complicated situation," but the government is holding virtual "roundtables" with port operators, labor unions and private companies. Nevertheless, he told MSNBC last Thursday, the "challenges" will continue, not only "going into the next year or two, but going into the long term."
The Wall Street Journal reported Walmart, Costco and Target are chartering their own cargo ships to import goods, paying about $100,000 day,
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Ben Shapiro:
It turns out when you panic the vaxxed out of working, bar the unvaxxed from working, and pay everybody not to work, nobody works.
He’s qualified because he’s gay. Whadda you want ....someone who understands business?
I hope FJB gets a Dr from an inner city school.
Everything under the Biden administration has turned into a crisis. Biden is even making Jimmy Carter look good by comparison.
Throw money at the ships—that should work!
;-)
This is panning out to be a Biden sized screw up, though it is happening regardless of what he does. He seems to have the “luck of the Biden’s”, as this is all the delayed consequences of worldwide COVID economic shutdowns. ‘Ol Joe just can’t catch a break! Let’s go Brandon!
Bidet getting to the bathroom in time is a crisis!
Raise the import tariffs, make more stuff in the USA instead of shipped from China.
That will help. It will reduce demand for overseas goods at the same time it provides tariff revenues to the government, and makes American companies more competitive.
Fortunately, the supply chain disruption itself may have similar effects, except it won’t fund the government. But if companies and people can’t timely get goods from overseas, they may decide to buy American.
The homosexual pervert is home molesting babies.
Our supply chain will be the next Bagram airbase.
Watch Cotton get labelled as a “homophobe” by the MSM.
Ben Shapiro has his faults, but his intellectual ability to focus on certain problems and spell them out as he did in that quote is not one of them!
The whole Biden administration has people completely unqualified to run anything. From Biden on down. And, while we’re at it, the leaders in congress, especially Pelosi and Schumer, need to be gone too.
If this were a corporation, all the people at the top would have been asked to resign, or would’ve been fired. If we’re going down, we might as well go down with new people leading us.
Get those damned people out of our lives!
Pfft. I think they already did that some time ago. To all of us.
He is busy worrying about a condom coming off.
Mayor Pete sucks.
Well, the butt-man is _way_ out of his league in the cabinet, and hiding behind the deities in the Woke Pantheon won’t solve the problem.
And Trump wanted the economy opened again “by Easter”.
Transportation Secretary Pete (”Butt Plug”) Buttigieg ‘absent’???
No, he’s just bringing up the rear....
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