Posted on 02/14/2021 7:38:25 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Privatizing the terminals and airports is not necessarily a bad thing, but the sale will be with so many restrictions (new owners must agree not to seek profit) that it will likely be a net loss to the community.
Plus, any proceeds from the sale will be squandered by politicians on gender studies or some such.
This could be the straw that breaks the camel's toe under the tent.
Not only is the port in decline all business and residential areas are in the beginning stages of decline. Portland had a bright future until the city council started supporting non-sensical progressive initiatives. This attracted more progressives and the decline started to escalate. If you look behind these proposals you will find a city that has decreasing tax revenues, decreasing property values, with higher social and employee benefit costs. The handwriting is on the wall. They need to maximize income, reduce costs & maintenance while the property still has positive investment potential.
If there are 40 million people in California then there are at least 280 million in the rest of the country. The 75% figure I cited looks very reasonable in that context, doesn’t it?
Given a choice between investing state and local government funds for a port and investing these funds for a Toyota plant, I’ll bet you’d find that the Toyota plant has a much bigger economic impact.
Didn’t know a port could be racist!! Amazing.
It’s not like we have to fear Portland repealing the laws of economics.
As they go crazy, their economic will fall apart. It’s as simple as that. White people are not immune to their cities falling apart, the way Black people’s cities fell apart. The laws of economics don’t discriminate.
The idea that they will be able to tax those of us who work so people who don’t work can have equity is ridiculous. Working people aren’t stupid. If working doesn’t pay, we’ll join the ranks of the shiftless, no good, dope-smoking, video-game addicted, math retards. Then, who will pay the bills?
As to why the people in the rest of Oregon put up with the communists in Portland is beyond me. But, I could say the same thing about the people of Washington outside of Seattle, and the people of quite a few other states outside of their cities.
There’s a side of me that says that upon gaining control of the federal government, we should enforce the constitutional prerogative of the Congress - not the states - to regulate interstate commerce. Then there is another side of me that says the states should withdraw from the cities.
that only BLM members can be hired as workers.
Yeah, like BLM members wanna actually work.
“Remember Pruitt Igoe” Yes! The text book example of a controlled explosion to drop buildings:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UntpCv3nFU
Self detonation.
There already is a race war.
Perhaps, but you invest in your natural resources which is a major river that empties into the Atlantic Ocean, you capitalize on it...
Besides cargo, the port accommodates cruise passengers and Naval Ships....that’s what we have, it makes sense to maximize it...
Besides those cars have to get to the dealers somehow, that’s why having a major railroad located in town, plus two major interstate highways, one running north/south and the other east/west....
The Chinese would see the work ethics and bring them home to meet the Uyghurs for some training.
That’s not communism. It’s city property and they can do what they want with its proceeds.
” In some cases, that could mean selling off profitable operations in order to pursue these new, broader aims, which are taking root amid a resurgent civil rights movement.”
Communism.
Yes, everybody deserves to be paid above the average!
“The port was created in 1891 to benefit exporters of wood and grain – white men who owned businesses,” Robinhold said.“”
And Robinhold is a white guy. The biggest enemies of the white race are self loathing, virtue signaling whites.
But not the port of New York. Everything that comes in there stays in the city. Yeah, sure.
You’re crazy idea that west coast ports should abandon shipping overlooks the forty million tons of outbound freight every year, generating five billion dollars of economic impact with resultant tax revenue, and plenty of high paying longshoremen jobs,
But yeah, sure what’s the point when you ship some out of state. Like Walmart, they don’t sell anywhere outside of Bentonville, Arkansas.
Portland. Sure, risk one’s business capital and one’s life savings to get investments going in Portland.
Next unfair police encounter it gets looted, burned down and made into a shelter for BLM supporter squatters in a CHOP restricted zone for about 6 months. Sounds like a plan!
Plan B: Avoid Portland.
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