[larryw408]

If port and terminal security is suddenly so vital, let's not wait unitl the goods hit our shores, let's take over all the ports and terminals used to load the ships headed for the USA.

How many US firms load these ships on overseas ports?*

Funny how the info on overwhelming bias of the polled was buried at the bottom of the article.



*zero

[Howlin]

How many US firms load these ships on overseas ports?* zero*

What are you talking about?

[spinestein]

I happen to work in a light industrial warehouse near Chicago and just today we received 4 skids (about 8 cubic yards) of boxed goods from China which, of course, was loaded in a Chinese port, sailed across the ocean and was unloaded onto a truck in an American port before being driven to our factory.

There is a certain INHERENT vulnerability in this way of doing business but the only alternative is to cut ourselves off from the global economy and live like a third world country.