Posted on 04/29/2024 9:17:19 AM PDT by DFG
President Joe Biden’s Navy secretary wants to import skilled blue-collar migrants to build the U.S. Navy ships that protect Americans and their job opportunities.
“What we’ve got to do is open up the spigot a bit, basically, on legal immigration to allow blue-collar workers to come here … so they can actually work in our shipyards and be employed by the types of trades that are open to shipyard workers,” Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro told a meeting in Arlington Va.
Del Toro’s call for migrant shipbuilders comes amid a shipbuilding crisis where many U.S. warships are being delivered far behind schedule, sometimes with deep flaws, Forbes reported in 2021 that the United States:
builds less than 10 vessels for oceangoing commerce in a typical year. China builds over a thousand such ships each year. The entire U.S.-registered fleet of oceangoing commercial ships numbers fewer than 200 vessels, out of a global total of 44,000.
However, the administration’s support for mass migration reduces the pressure on state governments and companies to train the next generation of Americans for skilled jobs.
The government’s inflow of cheap migrants also provides CEOs and investors with an easy excuse to avoid the difficult task of raising per-person productivity. Boosting productivity usually requires executives to manage a painful mix of training, automation, reorganization, risk, and innovation.
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I guess they build lots of warships in Mexico, Guatemala, Venezuela,
Central and South America, and in the Congo and West Africa......./s.
Traitors. Thank you Donald chump for blowing your only opportunity to save the country. You never drained the swamp, you and your incompetent ass kissers let it grow. And kick your ass, by the way. And all of you qtards… the miracle is not coming.
“skilled blue-collar migrants...”
I hope one of those skills is speaking English because the ones I’ve been around DON’T.
Of course there’s always the distinct possiblity the idiots in DC will spend billions making all work manuals and accompanying documentation bilingual.
That’s going to work out well.
This so tells Americans what the government thinks of them.
I actually double checked to see if this was a Babylon Bee article.
Indeed, this will not end well.
It will end with all of these ships sitting in dry docks (of which we do not have enough) as skilled shipbuilders fix all the mistakes.
Good gig for those guys. They'll be making tons of bank. Meanwhile, taxpayers get screwed, and most importantly, Sailors and their families get screwed as deployments on seaworthy ships are extended to fill the gaps. And these ships get broken down even more because they don't get the yard time they need!
The do a lot of shipwork in Yemen, so look out.
U.S. shipping locations are already overtasked for trade to support consumerism, leaving little room for manufacturing.
No jobs for Americans
No homes for Americans
No money for Americans
No rights for Americans
And the idiots keep voting Democrat
🙄🙄🙄
Stupid
Ukraine had a shipyard industry...
CHinese built the railroads so...
Here's a good chart, from US Congress
Although "low cost" is important in ship-building, note that very "high cost" Japan has stayed quite competitive in commercial ship-building
Sadly, US ship-building is like many major US industries - on one side, it pays very well to build with Gov't money and align oneself with Washington DC, while on the other side, the industry is subject to intense neo-liberal, globalist competition and incentives to leave the USA.
Just don't call it the great replacement. That would be racist.
What jobs do the liberals want the next generation of Americans to be doing? Baristas and social media influencers?
Might as well just buy them from China then.
Carlos Del Toro born in Havana Cuba. Deport this filthy commie bastard NOW!
Train them at Boeing.
Beat me to it.
They mow lawns really well so naturally they can build a warship.
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