Posted on 08/07/2006 9:34:09 AM PDT by Reagan Man
Tick,tick,tick.... here come the 'ridiculists'. LOL
I don't know if this is related, but a LOT of construction has popped up at the Kansas City airport right near the eastern N/S runway. It looks like a massive refueling depot -- as in a couple of gas stations with a lot of stalls. I guess I should take a picture of it next time I am on a plane that is taxiing past it.
Should make the drug distribution system far more efficient. This will be the Nagasaki of the WOD (and we lost).
SmartPort representatives are now running away from this written admission, blaming "the problems and pressure the media attention has created." However, the stubborn sovereignty issue won't go away; the plan does involve setting up Mexican customs officials in downtown Kansas City.When I was returning from a business trip to Monterrey (Mexico), I went through US Customs there. Likewise in Montreal.
This isn't a big deal.
-Eric
The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America will effectively graft a fat pipe from the corrupt, marxist, drug and human trafficking nation to our south directly to the US heartland under questionable jurisdictions and real security concerns (not just security in name only). I would hazard to guess that the conceptual seeds of this monstrosity were sown before nineteen jihadists decided to attack the US five years ago. And we all know times have changed a bit since then.
Don't you listen to Michael Medved, this is just so much hype. How could anyone be against more roads? Whatever it takes to make business more profitable and cut the red tape from the shipping business....
Bravo! Go get them. The ILWU brought this on themselves. Shipping companies cannot transfer emailed shipment data automatically because the ILWU makes "marine clerks" retype them in. Ha ha ha. ¿Habla Español dufus?
That's a pretty graphic. Looks so damn wholesome with its vibrant pinks and forward thinking yellows.
What is it about a longshoreman job that makes it worth 140,000 per year? Is it because of their willingness to use violence to obstruct the flow of goods to the rest of us and to prevent others from performing the work?
No ~ I don't Medved to explain what is obvious to me and any clear thinking American.
Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!
It takes juice in order to refuse to use barcode scanners.
Ping
Yep ~ vibrant. ;)
They have a good union. ;)
Total bullsh!t. She has no idea what she is talking about, and should be ashamed of such sloppy research. And yeah, I know who she is and what she has done in the past, which is why this is even more inexcusable.
Impossible to replace American rail workers with Mexican ones because it isn't like on a highway where anyone can just get on and drive. Each employee has to be trained and qualified on how to work their territory, they are limited by union agreements to only working a specified section between fixed crew change terminals (usually about 150-250 miles), and (unlike many industries) all operating employees are unionized on mainline railroads (even in a right-to-work state like Texas.) The crewing agreements are very specific, long-term, and there is zero chance of any major railroad breaking the unions. Zero, completely different situation than the air traffic controllers. Even if they ran through bi-lingual crews across the border, they wouldn't make it any further north than the Corpus Christi area because of crew district lengths (by law no rail employee can work more than 12 hours, thus limiting how far they can operate a single train.)
This isn't a proposal to replace the ports of LA/Long Beach, it is to bypass the congestion and capture some of the overflow traffic. Shipping via Lazaro Cardenas and Mazatlan adds at least a day for rail or truck transport and more extra days for the much longer sea transit (just take a look at a globe), so for much of the cargo it will always be more cost-effective to enter via the US west coast. However there is a limit to how much these US ports can expand and the rail routes from CA to the south and midwest are near current capacity. Also most traffic moves via Chicago, Memphis, and Texas, so KC isn't a huge threat to those gateways, but rather an attempt to open another (needed) gateway and capture some of the huge number of warehousing/repacking/distribution jobs that currently take place at the ports of entry. Just like Chicago and Memphis has, and Dallas, San Antonio, Houston, and other cities are attempting to get in on. What Kansas City is trying to create is an inland port, a concept that isn't new and has been used in Front Royal, VA (within an hour of DC) for years. Phyllis needs to google "Virginia Inland Port", she just might learn a thing or three.
Management of certain shipping operations by a company of foreign ownership does not constitute foreign "ownership" of the port.
I knew KC was port years ago and wait til the Mexicans run into the Mafia there.
It's tough to get past that first sentence, isn't it? :)
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