But what will the Longshoremen’s Union say? ..... https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/b...ard-address-record-number-vessels-los-angeles It's becoming impossible to ignore just how unprepared the Biden administration is in tackling the current shipping crisis and its impact on domestic supply chains and state economies. A significant backlog of container ships continues to pile up at Los Angeles and Long Beach ports, even though President Biden issued a directive last week to keep both ports, which account for 40% of all shipping containers entering the U.S., operating on a 24/7 basis. Now the administration is so desperate that they're weighing the use of the National Guard to alleviate stretched supply chains so that Americans will hopefully get their consumer goods before the holidays, according to AP News.
If true, then he clearly doesn't understand or comprehend the issues at hand. Which also tells you that Bootyjudge is completely clueless. But Bootyjudge is GAY so everything's kumbaya.
That's treating the National Guard with disrespect, taking them away from their other job somewhere to plug gaps that have nothing to do with the military. All because they needed some extra money each month and decided to sign up as weekend warriors.
They like the ballsy optics of sending in military. They did the same thing with vaccinations. The prospect of having people in uniform giving injections gave the impression that General Joe MacArthur had landed in the Phillippines. That was fine for a couple weeks. Then it turned out that the vaccine resistance was more fundamental than they thought. Most things do turn out to be more complicated than Joe thinks. You know, he is the guy who thinks that West Virginia coal miners can all be rehired as C++ or Python programmers in a few week and that Kabul was a great success. Yeh, he really showed us how to git er done. Not to forget that this supply chain thing is a "high class problem" along with the "high class problem" of inflation. Not sure how high class it will be to have a can of ravioli for Thanksgiving dinner but you better move fast to secure that option.
The National Guard? Those dock jobs are skilled positions. You don't just jump in a cargo crane and start banging away. And those are union jobs and I do mean union jobs. Good money too.
As noted earlier... the east coast ports have plenty of available capacity. Many ports in Florida can handle even the largest ships. DeSantis Suggests Rerouting Supply Ships to Florida to Avoid Bottleneck https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...esantis-says-supply-chain-issue-may-get-worse