I got word from my cousin, who is a longshoreman. On October 1st, longshoremen will be shutting down all East Coast ports from Texas to Maine. Nothing will be offloaded from the ships coming into these ports.
While some goods may trickle in from the West Coast, you can expect prices of those goods to double, possibly triple.
The rising cost of goods will be blamed on the Biden/Harris regime. This could propel Trump even further. My cousin believes that this strike could last a month or more because no one is budging.
Stay safe frens.
Did you approve of what the Democrats did in 2019-2020? If not, why are you using them as a measuring stick to compare yourself to?
Are you happy to be as despicable as they are, or do you hold yourself to higher standards?
If the pandemic and all the fallout afterwards with the supply chain didn't convince people that we needed to increase our own production, why would a labor strike do it?
Good question - No, I didn't approve of them hating on conservatives back then, but back then, I cared about people...Do you think if the shoe was on the other foot, they would have come here and let everyone know that a strike was coming? Hell no. If that is despicable, then so be it.
As for the other one - the longshoremen WERE STILL WORKING DURING THE PANDEMIC. Things may have been unloaded slower, but they were still being unloaded. A full-scale shutdown of all ports will have a much greater effect than that of a pandemic where tens of thousands of longshoremen were still working. You're talking about not one container being unloaded at all.
If that doesn't show people we need to start increasing our own production, then nothing will...
So you no longer care about people? That's sad.
Longshoremen working during the pandemic didn't erase the fact that other countries weren't producing or shipping nearly as much as they usually did. There were still shortages. Shortages that lasted for well over a year after the pandemic ended.
You're like Charlie Brown, thinking that this time Lucy won't pull the football away when you go to kick it. This time will be different.
I care about my family and other conservatives... liberals have proven time and time again they're the enemy. I'm not Christ; I'm not going to pretend to "love a neighbor" who hates my guts because I identify as Republican.
When you drop from unloading 30-50 containers an hour down to 10-15, then things slow down... what do you think will happen when that number drops to 0 an hour?