Posted on 03/28/2024 8:52:21 AM PDT by Red Badger
How would better dredges help remove the wreckage?
Translation: The Democrat Party is eager to violate the law and waste enormous amounts of taxpayer funds in order to use this crisis to give the Party more power.
If anybody believes this mess will get cleaned up before next year, I have a slightly broken bridge to sell you.
While I disagree with these types of laws, the idea that they will slow efforts is silly.
First, they need to remove wreckage from the channel. Then they *may* need to dredge a portion of the channel. But I guarantee there are already dredges throughout the Bay.
It seems odd to me that someone would entertain writing this article, let alone publishing it.
The Jones Act and Foreign Dredge Act were established as national defense measures. The national security exposure the U.S. would face with foreign vessels and foreign crews operating in the country’s domestic waterways is obvious, and anyone in the media who doesn’t recognize this is either a moron or has a globalist agenda.
I would point out that these laws were passed before the U.S. had any states outside the contiguous area now defined as the Lower 48 states. I have long advocated some changes to these laws to provide exemptions for vessels that make port calls in states and territories that are separated from the U.S. mainland by open seas, but that’s the extent of what I’d be willing to change.
Cost just doubled or quadrupled
The "bad laws" at operation here are the regulations that make ship-building in the United States uneconomic.
Since there’s a question of Francis Scott Key having owned slaves, the bridge will likely be renamed.
I see “The George Floyd Bridge” in the running. Maybe Joe Biden, since he’d actually taken a train over it?
Before any rash actions are taken in the port, of course the first priority would be an extensive survey of the seabed floor to make sure no endangered species, including any possibly new species, would be impacted by recovery abd rebuilding operations. This process should only take a decade, at most. Concurrently, all entities planning to be with 10 miles of the port can file environmental, climate impact, and diversity/equity/inclusion statments detailing carbon emissions and how the white cisgender patriarchy is going to be dismantled by their activities.
All you have to do to see the financial effects is look at what BP had to do to compensate the Gulf Coast businesses and municipalities for their 2010 oil rig disaster. The insurance companies and shipping company will be paying out huge damages, not just for the bridge rebuild, but every business and worker affected by the incident........................................
Opening the port will harm the planet.
The debris will need to remain there forever.
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Buttboy is the wrong man like Scott for the cleaning of the bridge wreckage. This clown is more interested in racism and being woke, both of which will have no benefit for the city of Baltimore nor its people.
Because America has lost the knack for getting things done.
“How would better dredges help remove the wreckage?”
That was my first thought when I read this. I worked in a shipyard. We did a lot of work on dredges, Corps of Engineers and private. You ain’t gonna be sucking up bridge wreckage.
We put a man on the moon in 1969. Apparently that was our apex.
Sounds like a good law and the Republican Party should be filing Lawsuits as we speak to STOP the Rebuilding of this Bridge until and unless all Environmental Regulations are followed to the T, including a NEW Environmental Impact Report.
WHY?? Because that is what the Demonrats would do if the shoe was on the other foot.
The Republicans should sue to stop all commercial traffic on the river because some Indian tribe once used the river as a sacred place to pee.
Trump was working to onshore government purchases and doing a good job. Biden said that Trump was issuing too many waivers or excluding too many items, and that he could do it better. Biden only messed things up.
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