Id say yes sucks to go to ensenada we dont even get of the ship
If McKeating is for it, it must be anti-American.
I deal with this sort of thing periodically in my line of work. I’ve long advocated a revision of the Jones Act that leaves most of its provisions intact but removes the prohibition against foreign-flagged vessels for domestic shipping routes to Hawaii and Alaska.
EVERY industry will claim that if they face free and open competition - national security will be harmed, enemies will be strengthened, the environment will be damaged, jobs will be lost, children will die.
We heard it back in the Carter days about airline deregulation. We were told the same when Obama bailed out General Motors. The Left screamed the same for years about health insurance, and then simply combined the power of government together with bought-and-paid-for cronies in the insurance industry and gave us Obamacare to rape the American middle class.
Astonishingly one of the relatively few things the federal government does that is lawful ... so of course they want to ditch it.
The purpose is to give the US maritime labor unions, (and the Mafia, and the Democrat Party,) a stranglehold over trade and shipping.
If Loony McStain wants it repealed, it must be good for America. UP YOURS, McStain!!
I believe the Jones Act can be suspended in a national emergency. By POTUS.
5.56mm