Because the left wants us to have one so that they can come along later with the solution and be our saviors and give up our rights and freedoms in exchange for alleged safety and security.
Which is never going to happen.
They will always be stringing us along to maintain their grip on power and control.
Happy, prosperous people are hard to control.
Hi Chickensoup:
Please watch this video, entitled, “Cargo Ship Dilemma: How This Will Impact You in Significant Ways”, just created on Saturday (2 Oct 21):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEdKaEVNg3M
Aging Port infrastructure that desperately needs to be updated but is continually resisted by the Longshoreman’s union.
Too much is shipped to us. Shipping to US Ports is at record highs due to the US Fed easy money polices and the Us Federal government out of control spending
We import too much. I would prefer we assist Mexico to do the low cost labor manufacturing - it would help their economy and would reduce dependence on China and shipping.
Not only do we have a shortage of all the people who move/transport/unload these things, but all the ports are highly affected by “Covid protocols,” meaning a worker shows symptoms or tests wrong and he’s off for a week to 10 days.
Multiply that by THOUSANDS.
Another thing I just found out
There has been a push to have US ports work 24 hours 7 days a week. That plan has been killed in CA by Labor unions.
Why they would oppose adding thousands of workers is a mystery I cannot explain.
A few ports in the US on the east coast are going to 24-7 operations.
24-7 operations is normal process for ports in Europe.
So a big problem is how we run our ports has not kept up with the volume being shipped to the USA
Because nothing is made in America anymore. The result of lowering the protective tarrifs that served our country well for 180 years.
It boils down to the problem with JIT (Just in Time) and the end of warehousing. Back when everybody had warehouses filled with stock there was elasticity in the supply chain. A little bit of minor chaos here or there would chew up stock and probably not even be noticed in the end market. But that got replaced by JIT, which is much cheaper, and wonderful as long as nothing weird happens in the supply line. But there’s no elasticity. So basically when there was the panic run on toilet paper that just set us up for problems. Cause then shipping started focusing on toilet paper, but that meant other stuff wasn’t being shipped, so it ran out, then they focused there, which shorted something else. Lather rinse repeat. It’s like how one guy slamming on his brakes can cause a traffic jam that’s backed up for hours. It’ll take years to stop chasing our supply tail.
China is hoarding containers under the pretense of “the necessary quarantining of containers due to covid”.
BKMK
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.