After a few days of fact finding and debate, do you now support or oppose the Dubai Ports deal?

FR Poll ^

[Flux Capacitor]

----Please stop it, before you go off the deep end of abuse the way you did a few weeks ago.----

I don't recall getting any notices. But since my knitting needles are wearing out I'll oblige you. :)

An argument on the facts would have been nice, but oh well.

-Dan

[JDoutrider]

I support it IF all the Dubai Emeratis' communications are completely, and openly monitored, All transactions are subjected to immediate oversight and review, and most importantly, each and every cargo container that enters ports under their control is monitored (this should be happenning at all ports of entry already!)

[TeddyCon]

Support!

[Texas Eagle]

Support.

[Sunnyflorida]

I fully support

1) Port security right now is a joke and the local politicians are lying if they say they want it tighter. I say regime change for the local corrupt politicians that actually do CONTROL the ports and their lackeys in the unions (or is it vice versa).

2) This is a fair business deal. Good for trade and therefor good for the economy and capitalists.

3) I think it is a good thing that American workers feel threatened by outsourcing. People that feel threatened ought not to worry about the foreigners but worry about their poor career decisions and take corrective actions, like moving to Florida where there are millions of unfilled jobs or get more training or work harder and smarter.

4) We need friends in the Middle East and UAE is as good as we have.

5) Unions are a scourge; maybe DP/World will make U.S. ports more efficient (AKA more reasonable work rules.)

6) Let this be a lesson that if the Congress continues to set up laws punitive to U.S. companies that need to operate globally we won't have any.


Last) Chuch Schummer and the entire democrat party of New Jersey is opposed to it.

[sit-rep]

Still against it.

[sit-rep]

Oppose

[M203M4]

Put undecided for the first poll (looked pretty bad, until the facts started coming out and I abandoned emotion in favor of reason), put "support" for the second.

[Sunnyflorida]

"Why the long
opinionssssssssssssss?"

Freeping why do you think?

[O Neill]

Support

[Cementjungle]

Support.

Only 1% of incoming stuff is inspected now, this may cause us to improve on that (indirect result of this sudden focus on the process). More importantly, we need an ally in the Straight of Hormuz.

[Bean Counter]

I still support it, and have said from the start that the worst thing this deal had was bad public relations.

[winker]

OPPOSED now and forever; AMERICA FOR AMERICANS Cain't trust any of them!

[Sunnyflorida]

#314 is dead eye dead center dead on target. Brilliant, sir. It is totally amazing to me how so many people that benefit from our grreat capitalist system and yet do not recognize the real threats to it.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

Support

[Sunnyflorida]

If it looks like Rove-a-dope, walks like Rove-a-dope, quacks like Rove-a-dope it is Rove-a-dope.


Hillary is now calling for all-American ports. I bet old Rove has found something in her past that links her to the current operators. These dems have no clue on opposition research.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

You want responsibility FROM A POLITICIAN? Are you mad?

If they had to pay for their actions that caused irreparable harm, no one would ever go into public office.

[meema]

Oppose.
Particularly since this is a STATE-owned company.
This is not a private company.
Would you all support our Federal govt owning our ports in the same way?

[Redcloak]

Interesting how the poll has flipped over the past few day, huh? My initial reaction was negative, but now I support (or at least don't oppose) the sale. I just can't think of a really bad downside to it.

I really don't think that Arabs would invest $7 billion to pull off a terrorist attack. Remember how the bombers from the first World Trade Center bombing were caught? The cheapskates wanted their $100 deposit back on the van. And, of course, to use a cargo ship as a weapon, you have to control the port of departure, not the port of entry. Arabs already control such ports. If they are planning an attack, then this is a waste of money; they already have the assets they need to pull it off.

[indcons]

Oppose...and that's mainly because of my deep distrust of muslims.

Beware of muslims bearing offers of friendship (with apologies to Homer).