“What we should do is reduce regulations that provide an incentive for ships to register under the flags of places like Liberia, and have the US Navy once again have as a main mission the destruction of pirates which attack US ships, or ships carrying US citizens. (Ships under foreign flags can look to their country of registry for protection, or re-register as US ships). We should have our military look after US interests.”
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Love the idea - we should have the biggest shipping empire in the world under the US flag. It would also give our Navy the right to take out these pirates. The message is, don’t mess with our ships, anywhere in the world.
Instead of building some globalist cooperation nightmare we should look after America and Americans first. Where are the “America First” candidates?
Aren’t we a sovereign nation anymore?
One of the biggest impediments would be (you guessed it) the unions. US-flagged ships would be under the jurisdiction of Seafarer's International Union, which has been compared to the Teamsters and Longshoremen unions in their level of thuggery. We need a Maritime Right To Work Act to deal with that.
Then, of course, a US flagged ship would be subject to EEOC regulations, OHSA regs, EPA, etc, etc. A bunch of regulatory agencies would need to be cut down to size.