09-29-2017, 04:39 AM
The Jones Act doesn't need to be suspended. It needs to be abolished.
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I completely agree. We do not need to continue to prop up overpaid union dockworkers to unload a ship, then load it onto another to then go on to Hawaii or Puerto Rico.
However, suspending it in this particular case, did nothing to actually help the situation and it wouldn't even if the suspension had been immediately granted by DHS (who owns the policy on this). It was simply grandstanding. It may sound fantastic to you to try and claim that "Trump did nothing to help" (untrue BTW). There were no "foreign-owned" vessels loaded with emergency supplies, already in the process of going "somewhere" like Puerto Rico.
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I completely agree. We do not need to continue to prop up overpaid union dockworkers to unload a ship, then load it onto another to then go on to Hawaii or Puerto Rico.
However, suspending it in this particular case, did nothing to actually help the situation and it wouldn't even if the suspension had been immediately granted by DHS (who owns the policy on this). It was simply grandstanding. It may sound fantastic to you to try and claim that "Trump did nothing to help" (untrue BTW). There were no "foreign-owned" vessels loaded with emergency supplies, already in the process of going "somewhere" like Puerto Rico.