04-04-2011, 02:57 PM
Go to Sands Island and you will see one of the largest USFS50 foreign shipping companies operating between the US mainland and Hawaii. If they can do it so can anyone else. They are following the rules like every other industry must follow.
Let me see if I can reduce it to simpler terms. Can Jose out of Mexico City come to the Hawaii with his Mexican licensed taxi, registered in Mexico, following on Mexico safety standards, and start picking up fares off the streets of Hilo and transport them to Pahoa?
Or can Abdul come to Hawaii, open up Middle East Bank of Hawaii, hiring people from his country, paying them $8 a week, requiring that they work 7 days a week 16 hours a day, without a US work authorization and start engaging in US banking activities according to the banking regulations of Yemen, not the US?
Name one inter-state commerce industry in the US that does not have similar Jones Act type of protectionisms.
Let me see if I can reduce it to simpler terms. Can Jose out of Mexico City come to the Hawaii with his Mexican licensed taxi, registered in Mexico, following on Mexico safety standards, and start picking up fares off the streets of Hilo and transport them to Pahoa?
Or can Abdul come to Hawaii, open up Middle East Bank of Hawaii, hiring people from his country, paying them $8 a week, requiring that they work 7 days a week 16 hours a day, without a US work authorization and start engaging in US banking activities according to the banking regulations of Yemen, not the US?
Name one inter-state commerce industry in the US that does not have similar Jones Act type of protectionisms.