To kill the 2021 Alaskan Cruise season is a real economic hardship on the costal Americans there in the towns that will face not one, but two years of reduced income.
IMHO keeping the oil pipeline open ,could have been used to bargain with Canada to allow Alaskan Cruises from the USA.
Unfortunately the Biden Group killed that oil pipeline immediately, costing American jobs and aggravating the Canadians. - Tom
Damn a—holes from CT telling me a Floridian I can’t cruise.
I left that state in 2006 cause of the CT crap and now I’m held hostage.
Asian airliners that stop in Guam/Alaska have to turn around and not continue-only American ones can. Think of how much $ Guam is missing out on.
The cruise lines will move out of the US. Since many passengers must fly into the port of departure anyway, it would not be too difficult for the cruise industry to just leave the US and have the passengers fly into Vancouver or the Bahamas.
Actually may save the owners money.
What? Her buddies across the aisle didn't return the favor after all she did for them?
What a surprise...
-PJ
My wife and I are 0 for 2 with Alaskan cruises recently.
We had one scheduled for last August/September, which went away, and then we rescheduled for right about now. In fact we would be in Anchorage today.
But of course, it went away too.
At this rate, we’ll die before we get back to Alaska.
Lisa Murkowski MUST LOSE HER SEAT since she can’t even HELP HER OWN STATE and she votes WITH ALL THESE VILE DEMOCRATS!
In this case of Congress limiting where people can go on medical basis by pushing masks and other forms of quarantining people, the Supreme Court has clarified that medical quarantines are a state power issue, not the business of the feds.
Where medical lockdowns are concerned for example, note the reference to unique state powers to quarantine in the New York v. Miln excerpt below, the second item in the list.
10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description [emphasis added], as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass.” —Justice Barbour, New York v. Miln., 1837.
"Obviously, direct control of medical practice [emphases added] in the states is beyond the power of the federal government.” —Linder v. United States, 1925.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
In fact, the Supreme Court possibly got a clue about unique state power to regulate INTRAstate healthcare, including the power to quarantine, from the writings of Thomas Jefferson.
"Many are the exercises of power reserved to the States wherein a uniformity of proceeding would be advantageous to all. Such are quarantines, health laws [emphasis added], regulations of the press, banking institutions, training militia, etc., etc." —Thomas Jefferson to James Sullivan, 1807.
If Congress wants to order private ships what to do then Congress can buy the ships under the 5th Amendment imo.
Corrections, insights welcome.
Been wanting to do it again, but with a longer land portion to see a different part of the state. Oh, well. Maybe in another five years.
-PJ