Posted on 10/04/2021 3:52:37 AM PDT by Chickensoup
Please Explain. Exactly Why Do We Have a Shipping Crisis?
You posted to me, and I think you’ve forgotten why.
The Union angle was the only explanation I could come up with for your callous disregard of the impact of this supply stoppage on Americans.
I agree that unionism should remain a 20th century thing. The impact of Communism on America.
We really should want a Free Market in America and in all of the countries throughout the world with which America deals. America should not be dealing with Communist Red China. If America is Imperialist, it should be at the center of an Empire of Liberty.
instead of inciting a hoard of FReeper morons, you COULD have simply done an internet search and obtained a bit more authoritative explanations:
https://www.bing.com/news/search?q=shipping+crisis&FORM=HDRSC6
https://www.google.com/search?q=shipping+crisis&source=lnms&tbm=nws
Democrats created it.
“Lots of farmland!”
And China needs it to try to handle their short fall in food. Plus, they think with a show of force they can bluff their way into it. May get interesting. I get the feeling that if China tries to force the issue, they will have the US, Japan, Australia, and many countries to include out of the UN to push back militarily.
Japan had the same problem in the mid 1930’s and tried it with force. And they almost got away with it. Just depends on who blinks.
wy69
“Lots of farmland!”
And China needs it to try to handle their short fall in food. Plus, they think with a show of force they can bluff their way into it. May get interesting. I get the feeling that if China tries to force the issue, they will have the US, Japan, Australia, and many countries to include out of the UN to push back militarily. Only problem for them is if they do it by force, they will destroy a lot of what they need there...farms.
In the movie Rooster Cogburn when John Wayne was throwing up the corn dodgers to shoot them, Ms. Goodnight (Katherine Hepburn) said, “you are shooting your own food.” Same premise.
Japan had the same problem in the mid 1930’s and tried it with force. And they almost got away with it. Just depends on who blinks.
wy69
If we can only make everything more expensive, we'll all be rich!
Spoken like a true Chinese globalist hack. Move there.
Really? That’s the best you can come up with?
Who says a cargo container “can” or “DOES” hold only 8 tons average?
The container itself is over 2 1/2 short tons!
Pull your head out of wherever it is and LOOK at the DATA presented! Who is going to pay current freight rates for empty containers, which are shipped by TEU, not weight!?
I meant to say that if you FILL an Oscar Class cargo ships with the maximum number of 20 foot contains, then yes, they can only average about 8 tons of loading each...or the ship breaks its weight limit.
Of course you can carry less containers and thereby increase the average loading per container, but I was looking at the case of the ship having all 19,000 or so containers...then they can only average about 8 tons of cargo in each (and no, it’s not a state secret, go look it up).
BTTT.
Hadn’t thought of that. It also serves to help squeeze out competition, which then frees up the top end of pricing.
Thank you for that very informative link
Agree that this is part of the plan to help build back better.
It is not just the left.
Certain IT wages dropped after the 1990’s because so many people got into the industry. I started as a PC tech in 1997 making $125 an hour and saw that wage drop to $17 an hour by 2002. These days I’m a certified forensic analyst in information security and I’m making more than most White House staff.
Choose a sought after skill in IT and you can find lots of high paying jobs. Hell, I make more than most of my employer’s executives. MBA’s are plentiful and cheap.
How is a tariff different from being taxed “the moment you make a purchase at a store”? You seem to believe that foreign governments or corporations pay tariffs out of their pockets rather than building that cost into the price paid by consumers. And if the goal of the tariff is to suppress foreign trade in favor of domestic trade by making imported goods more expensive, then a 100% successful tariff would raise no money at all, still leaving the government to tax citizens in all those ways you cite.
Consumption taxes, especially the tariff is the fairest most conservative tax of all. Libertarians and Republicans should be in favor of them. They can be used a propaganda foil to assuage the stupid deficit hawks and their zero sum income tax game.
Therefore, I am in favor of the tariff. More please.
Fixed it
Yes, all of the above in post #2. Also, appliance dealers tell me the hard freeze in Texas (months ago) caused a LOT of problems delaying refrigerators, and all kinds of “cooling” products. For example, those cool-type mattresses, etc.
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