Posted on 03/27/2020 1:58:12 PM PDT by C19fan
If companies want America to bail them out, perhaps they should bail back into America first. Donald Trump had spoken repeatedly about the financial beating that cruise lines had taken since the start of the coronavirus outbreak, and perhaps those corporations just assumed that they could access the COVID-19 rescue package once it passed.
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Ouch. That’s gonna hurt.
some of them want to be but can’t because of the jones act
YES!
Yep, the crews are 95% foreign cheap labor.
Llorame un rio de lagrimas tristes.
Which ones?
Good for him to point that out.
Those ships will come in handy when the cruise lines go bankrupt. Just think. Floating hotels, hospital wards, prison ships. Let’s not forget the homeless.
The Jones act sort of prevents this.
Repeal the Jones Act and watch the shipping companies return to the US
My guess is they do a fast track bk like they did with the auto companies and keep on under the same names like nothing happened.
What part of Keep AMERICA Great don’t they understand?
Winning!
They are well paid. We asked the waiter on the last Royal Caribbean cruise we were on what he made.
A waiter makes over $3000.00 a month plus free room and board and medical.
They are not US citizen but they are not cheap labor
You know, it’s a lucky break that these cruise companies aren’t eligible for bailout/loans because they’re a pretty bad risk at this point. With all these horror stories of floating petri dishes, it’s going to be a while before their customers get amnesia and start booking cruises again. Could be years, maybe decades, before they get back to where they were.
My question too. we have a Favorite I won’t say which one. I’d hate to see them go under. This is going to end.
Casinos. They are floating casinos.
Then the cruise lines should ask Panama or Bulgaria etc for relief.
Go Trump!
Cry me a river of sad tears.
They don’t pay taxes in America. Why should they be bailed out by American taxpayers?
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