Posted on 10/02/2021 7:03:04 AM PDT by Black Conservative Voice
I believe this. They want a fascist world.
And no interest in “moving the supply chain back onshore”.
Republican leaders should start calling for a STATE OF EMERGENCY! This crisis could easily be avoided if we had someone in DC that had a clue.
Republicans have to step up their game. This needs to be called a STATE OF EMERGENCY. The administration is failing to act. You can bet your last dollar Trump would have resolved this matter in no time. For whatever reason, the democrats want to ignore it.
Yet another consequence of a stolen election.
Here you go: https://www.marinetraffic.com/
Every Container Box on a ship has to be loaded on to a truck Chassis. There is a severe shortage of chassis’ at the Ports.
Most Chassis are made in China. Clueless Joe promised to lift the tariffs on truck Chassis in China. Joe didn’t remove the tariffs - the Chinese are mad and won’t ship any Chassis as long as the tariffs are in place.
Also, for the Boxes we unload - there is no where to store them. The Rail yards are full. This is what you get when everything is imported from China.
Exactly. That would solve a great deal and give us another industrial revolution, and create prosperity across the country. They want a two class system-those in power and those dependent upon the government for their existence.
Rumble version for those of you that won’t click twitter
100 Cargo ships docked off Los Angeles
https://rumble.com/vn8bj5-100-cargo-ships-docked-off-los-angeles.html
Our government won’t act and America will be damaged. It’s almost like our enemies are in charge, isn’t it?
Link to actual website map:
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-83.0/centery:41.5/zoom:2
Part of the problem is dock unions limit working hours, unlike other countries that go 24/7, so deliveries pile up. Then, many containers were stacked up in various US ports and sold off for low rent housing, helping create the current shortage of containers.
Ran across this the other day. The guy sounds very well informed:
The Government Has a Plan to Clear the Ports...WE ARE DOOMED | What’s Going on With Shipping?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBFCpHihE5I
In the news yesterday.
China’s charges for shipping containers to the US:
• Before the ‘pandemic’… $1,400.00 to ship one container
• Since the ‘pandemic’ … $14,000.00 to ship one container
Looks like a WWII convoy.
Why do you think there is a lack of capacity? Did they scrap ships during the pandemic? Did three-quarters of their workers die or quit? Is there that much of a backlog of products to ship after the world went into lockdown for a year?
I am really perplexed as to why this situation has happened.
Years ago, pre-9/11, I found out that longshoremen with high school-level education were able to draw six figure salaries that anywhere else in America would be 8-10/hour due to the strength of their unions. They were also able to force shipping companies to use manual-intensive procedures and prevent adoption of time-saving modernization like using barcodes, all in the name of preventing anyone from taking union jobs.
After 9/11, the unions claimed all of those antiquated procedures were needed for Homeland security.
The military could clear out all of those backlogs across all American ports in a few weeks, or at least the pre-Biden military could. But doing so would expose the absurdity of the longshoremen and those six figure incomes also come with powerful political protection that overlaps with teamsters and other union labor who are similarly protected. Right now we're seeing a perfect storm of protectionism, graft, and over reliance on cheap imports that ultimately hurts American industry. I don't see it getting better for a very long time at the pace we're going.
Where did all the trucks go? Did half of our trucks get scrapped during the pandemic? Did half of the drivers die of COVID? The government payments to sit on your ass are over.
Every explanation for this problem has another upstream cause. And that upstream cause itself has another upstream cause.
It’s almost as if this is like putting Europe and Japan back together after WW II.
[ Republican leaders should start calling for a STATE OF EMERGENCY! This crisis could easily be avoided if we had someone in DC that had a clue.
Republicans have to step up their game. This needs to be called a STATE OF EMERGENCY. The administration is failing to act. You can bet your last dollar Trump would have resolved this matter in no time. For whatever reason, the democrats want to ignore it. ]
Republicans won’t do jack crap.....
There is a reason the citizens of Rome basically let Rome burn....
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