Ratner's Anti-Globalization Rant: No Foreigners Should Own Ports

Fox & Friends Weekend/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[raybbr]

Ooooh, Dane!!

Answer a question with a non-sequitor question. How diabolical of you.

[Just mythoughts]

"Continued the suddenly jingoistic Ratner: "Why don't we have American companies owning some ports in China or Dubai or anywhere else? Why has American business given up on this? We're a strong country. We ought to be owning ports."


Ratner has some valid questions, however, I wonder does she support closing down Gitmo, or the "no profiling" legislation getting penned in Congress. Does she support McCain's illegal invasion legislation?

These liberals were in a global love fest while Clintonism was reaping foreign monies to get reelected and those special transfers of security intel, or JFKerry singing his can't we all just get along prez campaign.

These liberals in one breath sound like terrorist moooolahs and in the next breath sound like the 60's hippies. Wait maybe there is no difference when all layers are peeled away.

[Dane]

Answer a question with a non-sequitor question. How diabolical of you

It's not a non-sequitor. Ratner who had no problem with hillary pushing deals with the chicomms is all of the sudden outraged and is obviously pandering to you like a woman in a fake fur working on a streetcorner and she has your tongue wagging.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

If Pres. Bush had publicly announced that he had vetoed a proposed UAE port deal, I am absolutely convinced that Ratner would have been on there today denouncing Bush for anti-Arab bigotry and ethnic profiling.

Ratner has only one guiding principle: hatred of Republicans and opposition to anything proposed by the Bush administration.

[fragrant abuse]

Oh god here we're go again. Can I just point out, for the gazillionth time, that no foreigners are going to "own" our ports?

Ratner has lost it. Apparently we're supposed to conjure into existence an American company capable of and willing to manage these ports.

Or does she want the government to take control of them? Just what we need, bigger government running more stuff.

[randita]

Why do you guys seem so determined for America to offshore, outsource and capitulate to foreign govts?

1. In many cases, there are no U.S. companies or workers who will or can do the job?

2. It's reciprocal. Companies in the U.S. have holdings in other countries and they have holdings in ours. Cutting off that reciprocity would mean a huge number of U.S. employees would be out on the streets and many jobs there will be no one to do many of the jobs that need to be done here.

3. We're not capitulating to a foreign government. DWP is a private company.

Like it or not, we participate in a global economy and if we didn't, my husband and I, for sure, would not have jobs and would be living in our pop up somewhere growing our own fruits and vegetables.

[1rudeboy]

"Why don't we have American companies owning some ports in China or Dubai or anywhere else?"

Some people here would call that outsourcing, Ellen.

[G.Mason]

Only Americans running ports?

Would that be only the white Americans, who can trace their family tree to the Mayflower?

She can't mean the "other" Americans like Afro-Americans, Puerto Ricans, Italians, etc. etc. that have assimilated, or illegals, and other assorted Riff Raff, that have been given "rights" by the liberal establishment, can she?

And these "Americans"? Do they swear on the Holy Grail that they will be ever faithful to the United States, like John Effin Kerry, Turban Durbin, Chappaquiddick Kennedy? Or do they just have to have the intelligence of Hillary Clinton, Sheila Jackson Lee and Major Owens?

Someone turn on the bilge pumps. We're going down! ;)

[PGalt]

Lots of division on the left and right on this topic. As I stated on JimRob's thread I haven't studied it in depth but I lean slightly for the deal.

Thanks for the ping. Interesting thread.

[edpc]

Was that said with a lisp? Just asking cause I just looked at your picture on your profile page.

LOL. Careful.....you may be reported for "abuthe", you brute!

[Russ]

Are there any American companies in this line of business or that bid for the operations? I heard that another bidder was a company in Hong Kong. I guess that would be better, having them run by a Chinese Communist company.

The solution from liberals is predictable, let the government take over running the operations. Now that's scary...

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Thanks, PG. I haven't seen so much internecine warfare at FR since the Harriet Miers fiasco.

[Dallas59]

He could care less about ports and whatever...In his mind....

IT'S ALL ABOUT BUSH!!

[raybbr]

3. We're not capitulating to a foreign government. DWP is a private company.

It is a company partly owned by the state of Dubai.

[Carolinamom]

Numb skull Ratner doesn't know that we DO OWN our ports. I haven't heard a word from her or other dems about Carter;s GIVING away the Panama Canal, which the Chinese now control.....or the Chinese operating the California ports.

Memo to Sen. Diane Feinstein: Did YOU object to the Chinese/Singapore operating in your state, or did you and your husband benefit financially from it?

[Echo Talon]

Continued the suddenly jingoistic Ratner: "Why don't we have American companies owning some ports in China or Dubai or anywhere else? Why has American business given up on this? We're a strong country. We ought to be owning ports."

I'd like to ask Ratner why don't we "operate" ports right here in America? No American Companies "lease" terminals in the US.

[JLGALT]

"So....let me get this straight. In the 90's it was OK for the Chinese getting a quantum boost from Loral in their missile technology. It was also fine for Chinese owned Hutchinson Lampoa to have control over the ports at the Panama canal."

You failed to mention the millions that the Chi-coms pored into clinton's campaign coffers and the millions they paid for that presidential "whorehouse" in Little Rock!

[Echo Talon]

:D I hope that he doesn't take it personally. LOL just messin' around

[jigsaw]

Maybe we can convince the UAE to take over the Media rather than the Ports.

Mark, thank you for your wonderful reports here on FR. I read everything you write and really appreciate your dedication and efforts.

[randita]

Ellen Ratner must want folks like these running our ports: