09-28-2017, 08:19 AM
Anyway, from all the reports out there, suspending the Jones Act was not even needed. There are are over 9500 containers already on the docks, but they have no trucks/drivers, passable roads, to get them moved out.
Suspending it for 10 days is pointless. Debating suspending it is almost malicious. Doing both is just like sucker punching them. In general, as most people in Hawaii are aware, the Jones Act keeps the price of goods higher. The recovery of cash strapped Puerto Rico would be greatly aided by suspension of the Jones act for a year as was requested.
The bottom line is Trump doesn't know what he's doing and is just mimicking what highly biased people around him like Chao are telling him.
I'm reminded of Sartre when I see people who argue pointlessly to defend some of these positions:
Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play.
They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past. It is not that they are afraid of being convinced. They fear only to appear ridiculous or to prejudice by their embarrassment their hope of winning over some third person to their side.
If then, as we have been able to observe, the anti-Semite is impervious to reason and to experience, it is not because his conviction is strong. Rather his conviction is strong because he has chosen first of all to be impervious.
Sartre, 1944
Suspending it for 10 days is pointless. Debating suspending it is almost malicious. Doing both is just like sucker punching them. In general, as most people in Hawaii are aware, the Jones Act keeps the price of goods higher. The recovery of cash strapped Puerto Rico would be greatly aided by suspension of the Jones act for a year as was requested.
The bottom line is Trump doesn't know what he's doing and is just mimicking what highly biased people around him like Chao are telling him.
I'm reminded of Sartre when I see people who argue pointlessly to defend some of these positions:
Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play.
They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past. It is not that they are afraid of being convinced. They fear only to appear ridiculous or to prejudice by their embarrassment their hope of winning over some third person to their side.
If then, as we have been able to observe, the anti-Semite is impervious to reason and to experience, it is not because his conviction is strong. Rather his conviction is strong because he has chosen first of all to be impervious.
Sartre, 1944