That's from the World Bank. Executive summary table on page 10 has the money shot. The first US port on that list of most efficient ports globally is Boston, at #75. Long Beach and Los Angeles rank 373 and 375 respectively out of 405 total ports ranked. I don't know whether the longshoremen are right or not, but the data says the world's superpower is clearly doing something wrong in how our ports are run.
It’s quaint to see policy discussed when we’re in the final stages of a campaign based on anything but. Don and JD’s closing argument isn’t a manifesto for the working man, but rather a hate filled screed. Threats to use the military against their political opponents aka our fellow citizens, gaslighting poor hurricane victims, calling certain minority groups genetically predisposed to committing crime, continued boasts about “acing” a cognitive test, bizarre posts about his opponents allergies, need I go on? Well yes I do, there is a doubling down by both on the big lie. That pesky insurrection, the worst act ever committed by a US president. At least JD finally fessed up and explicitly said Don won in 2020, I guess he gets “credit” for that lie? Today’s right is not moored to any policy positions, it doesn’t even attempt to pass legislation. It’s all about who to hate, and what a cesspool America is. Instead of policy prescriptions, perhaps we need to take folks on a tour of the world so they can compare what we enjoy in America vs the struggles of so many elsewhere. Policy debate can wait. We need to go back to basics, and see if we can agree on a shared national vision, the notion of a common enterprise, an understanding that our enemies are not fellow Americans but rather those who seek to harm us and extinguish our way of life. One can always dream…
The globalists who insist on offshoring all the manufacture of real stuff give the dockworkers massive leverage. Then the globalists whine about it.
There is also the question of who makes the equipment that automates the docks. A lot of it appears to be just software operating the machinery that would otherwise be operated by humans. Software may come from American companies, if not necessarily American workers. But if new hardware is needed, from where.
Free traders, speculators, gamblers, investment bankers, foreign security apparatus's, multi-nationals, Wall St, Fed Reserve, politicians owned by these groups. Did i miss anyone? (Sounds like the "deep state"?) These globalists want free trade or the neo-liberal order to continue. They grew up with this and is who they are now. Hard to say I'm wrong or want to change, especially as get older but also when you been basically telling everyone your an EXPERT and now have to admit you really knew nothing. Or were wrong.
However, these types hold all the power so this current system will unfortunately have to break before it is fixed. History has proved this time and again. England in early 2oth century. Us during the depression 1929 into WW2. Just the last two examples.
Maybe, hopefully the Russians with China and Turkey and Iran can undominate the world off of dollar dominance. This would be great. Been a yoke around real working people since Bretton Woods.
Yikes, this is a new one. Pining for a cabal of Russia, China, Turkey, and Iran to eliminate the dollar as the world’s reserve currency? Putins wet dream, one might say…after all, Don wants to withdraw from the most successful military alliance in world history, might as well go all the way! Which country, and which economy, would you trade places with? Be specific please.
I am not an expert on port efficiency. But, according to those who are, US ports rank very poorly in terms of materiel throughput.
https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/099060324114539683/pdf/P17583313892300871be641a5ea7b90e0e6.pdf
That's from the World Bank. Executive summary table on page 10 has the money shot. The first US port on that list of most efficient ports globally is Boston, at #75. Long Beach and Los Angeles rank 373 and 375 respectively out of 405 total ports ranked. I don't know whether the longshoremen are right or not, but the data says the world's superpower is clearly doing something wrong in how our ports are run.
It’s quaint to see policy discussed when we’re in the final stages of a campaign based on anything but. Don and JD’s closing argument isn’t a manifesto for the working man, but rather a hate filled screed. Threats to use the military against their political opponents aka our fellow citizens, gaslighting poor hurricane victims, calling certain minority groups genetically predisposed to committing crime, continued boasts about “acing” a cognitive test, bizarre posts about his opponents allergies, need I go on? Well yes I do, there is a doubling down by both on the big lie. That pesky insurrection, the worst act ever committed by a US president. At least JD finally fessed up and explicitly said Don won in 2020, I guess he gets “credit” for that lie? Today’s right is not moored to any policy positions, it doesn’t even attempt to pass legislation. It’s all about who to hate, and what a cesspool America is. Instead of policy prescriptions, perhaps we need to take folks on a tour of the world so they can compare what we enjoy in America vs the struggles of so many elsewhere. Policy debate can wait. We need to go back to basics, and see if we can agree on a shared national vision, the notion of a common enterprise, an understanding that our enemies are not fellow Americans but rather those who seek to harm us and extinguish our way of life. One can always dream…
The globalists who insist on offshoring all the manufacture of real stuff give the dockworkers massive leverage. Then the globalists whine about it.
There is also the question of who makes the equipment that automates the docks. A lot of it appears to be just software operating the machinery that would otherwise be operated by humans. Software may come from American companies, if not necessarily American workers. But if new hardware is needed, from where.
Rubio’s piece is spot on.
Free traders, speculators, gamblers, investment bankers, foreign security apparatus's, multi-nationals, Wall St, Fed Reserve, politicians owned by these groups. Did i miss anyone? (Sounds like the "deep state"?) These globalists want free trade or the neo-liberal order to continue. They grew up with this and is who they are now. Hard to say I'm wrong or want to change, especially as get older but also when you been basically telling everyone your an EXPERT and now have to admit you really knew nothing. Or were wrong.
However, these types hold all the power so this current system will unfortunately have to break before it is fixed. History has proved this time and again. England in early 2oth century. Us during the depression 1929 into WW2. Just the last two examples.
Maybe, hopefully the Russians with China and Turkey and Iran can undominate the world off of dollar dominance. This would be great. Been a yoke around real working people since Bretton Woods.
Yikes, this is a new one. Pining for a cabal of Russia, China, Turkey, and Iran to eliminate the dollar as the world’s reserve currency? Putins wet dream, one might say…after all, Don wants to withdraw from the most successful military alliance in world history, might as well go all the way! Which country, and which economy, would you trade places with? Be specific please.