[longtermmemmory]

There is no US ship building industry.

There was even a lame effort to build two US built cruise ships but that fell flat due to corruption and union thugs.

In the end US ship building has gone the way of the US merchant marine.

It just costs too much to flag a ship with a US flag. The navy deals were just a way to keep the knowledge if not the capacity alive.

[Spktyr]

The union thugs and the Democratic legislators they got elected created what they thought was the "ideal" laws and regulations. Now their actions are coming back to bite them in the a**.

The unions, socialists all, are responsible for this decay.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The Jones Act has effectively been dismantled with CN's acquisition of US Steel's Great Lakes Fleet division. The guys in Duluth who dispatch ore, stone and coal cargoes even have email addresses that end in ".ca."

[em2vn]

".....due to corruption and union thugs."
Anything to back this up?