The Biden Administration and California Democrats have more in common than party affiliation and policy positions that lead to higher taxes and bad outcomes. Both Lyin’ Joe Biden and California lawmakers caused a supply chain mess, and they have no solutions.
Joe Biden’s handlers prompted him to read a series of remarks about greasing the supply chain bottlenecks that saw a record-setting 70 cargo ships anchored off California’s coast unable to dock and offload. The White House mandated West Coast ports to run 24-7, despite previous attempts at extended hours falling flat. Transportation, logistics, and trucking industry insiders have expressed opinions why opening 24-7 during the week didn’t improve pickup and delivery efforts.
Marine Exchange of Southern California executive director Kip Louttit indicated that “the ships are double or triple the size of the ships we were seeing 10 or 15 years ago. They take longer to unload. You need more trucks, more trains, more warehouses to put the cargo.”
Harbor Trucking Association CEO Matt Schrap went on the record stating, “We’re also storing thousands of empty containers at our yards because we don’t have the ability to return them. The marine terminals are either out of space, or they’ve reached the allocation limit the steamship lines have given them for that particular type of container.”
But Total Terminals International chief executive Bill Peratt told the blunt truth about the after-hours debacle. “So far, we have had zero deliveries. We want to gather information, make adjustments, and see if we can change behaviors.”
What Democrats, from sea to shining Washington, D.C., are not funneling through the establishment media is the chilling effect their policies have had on business, particularly independent truckers. California passed an anti-independent contractor law (AB5) that forces owner-operators to work with freight carriers outside the Golden State. These often long-haul truckers who used to charge into Port of Long Beach and Los Angeles for big-box retailers and logistics outfits are banned from working as their own boss.
The Democrat law designed to eliminate such free enterprise resulted in truckers seeking work elsewhere. It’s no wonder expanding hours has not resulted in the White House’s promise of increasing supply chain output by as much as 40 percent.
Port Los Angeles executive director Gene Seroka reportedly agreed that increasing shipyard hours would do little other than increase operational costs that will be passed on to consumers. Regional warehouses have no plans to increase their hours because storage space remains scarce. An estimated 98 percent of Southern California warehouses are at or near capacity because they don’t have enough truckers hauling loads to their final destinations.
“It has been nearly impossible to get everyone on the same page towards 24/7 operations,” Seroka reportedly said.
If the supply chain crisis were not yet another self-inflicted wound perpetrated on the American people by Democrats, why aren’t Republican-run states suffering the same problems? Florida’s officials recently announced the Sunshine State has upwards of 15 viable ports ready and waiting to receive goods and materials. Rather than alienate independent truckers, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has reportedly created a $3.3 billion capital investment initiative to improve the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico ports.
What Democrats don’t want everyday Americans to know is that their fouled-up, anti-business policies and laws are at the crux of the supply chain logjam.
I understand that the problem is made worse by CA’s laws which began in January 2021 (about the time that the supply chain problem began, isn’t it) that prohibit trucks older than 2011 to operate in CA and also prohibit non-union truckers to operate in CA. Lifting these prohibitions might help. Surely Nancy, as speaker of the house, care more about the needs of the people of the U.S. than these arbitrary laws.
I read the same thing.
DEMOCRATS RUIN EVERYTHING!!!
it’s the plan of the democrats to bring down the country so they can control the supplies coming into the country!! if the supply doesn’t get in then they can blame others for the breakdown of goods and they keep control of what the American people can have in the way of supplies and goods!!!!!!!!
I agree Mary. The big question is, “Who do people vote for Democrats?” I know our school system is partially to blame because they are not teaching, but are simply indoctrinating everyone to be good socialists. I guess Churchill’s saying is more accurate today than ever. You know, when he said “If you are not a liberal at twenty you have no heart? If you are not a conservative at forty, you have no brain?”
Right Sherry, just the requirement to “buy a new truck every 3 years” places an enormous burden on trucking transportation efforts.
So they want truckers to be in ENDLESS DEBT , Considering it takes MANY years to pay off the loan on a “NEW” Truck . ABSURD !
You mean piglousey? Care about anyone or anything but herself? The only way she’ll get involved is if she can’t buy her insanely expensive ice cream.
Only when Pelosi runs out of ice cream will she do something.lol
Really though when the DEMOS families and mucky muck friends run out of food, maybe then she will work and quit this stupid ,costly witch hunt for voters 5hat we’re expressing their rights on Jan 6th.
Time to move on Pelosi.
STOP YOUR N9NSENSE. WE ARE TIRED OF IT. TAKE TAKE OF AMERICAN PEOPLE FIRST. SHAME ON YOU, YOU ARE AMERICAN NOT A COMMUNIST, SO ACT LIKE IT.
EITHER SHAPE UP IR SHIP OUT.
Apparently there are plenty of containers to “ship them out” in! Fill ‘em up!
Amen!
Gotta laugh, did not see your post. Yep when piglousey can’t get her ice cream, she’ll do something. Same thing with FJB and his ice cream.
WAIT! Did not President Biden’s PRESS SECRETARY Psaki blame this disaster on multiple segments of our population from the UNVACCINATED to more affluent American, but they had the Gay Secretary of Transportation OUT OF THE OFFICE FOR MATERNITY LEAVE for 6 to 8 weeks! Why a man needs to take Maternity Leave is beyond me particularly a man with a debacle brewing that could devastate a large cross-section of our society! IF he wants to not have the RESPONSIBILITY DEMANDS of such a position he should RESIGN IMMEDIATE so they might find someone who can DO THE JOB!
NOW with that stated my opinion is there IS NOT DEMOCRAT who can effectively do the JOB WITHOUT overriding CALIFORNIA LAW Anti-Independent Contractor Law (ABS) which STOPS INDEPENDENT TRUCKERS from entering the Ports, ANOTHER REASON UNIONS ARE HELPING TO DESTROY AMERICA! Understand I am not ANTI-UNION but I am ANTI-MONOPOLY which this Law promotes. Unions at one time had Patriotism, not anymore or at least I have not seem Unions promoting the U.S. in decades. They only want to collect dues off of the labor of honest hard working folks and pile up the cash for a small group of people to live comfortable in their GATED MILLION DOLLAR HOMES!
Californians messed up putting this fool back into office.
YET THE DEMS ARE HELL BENT ON TURNING THE ENTIRE COUNTRY INTO ONE BIG CALIFORNIA ! IT SHOULD BE A SHINING EXAMPLE OF WHAT NOT TO DO !
Democrats can’t see past their crazy ideas what the consequences are,even after it happens!
They just make stupid rules with tunnel vision to appease themselves,& most likely to enrich themselves.
THOSE DAMN SNEAKY, MALFEASANT, BUTTHOLE POLITICIANS AKA DEMOCRATS!!! THEY ROYALLY SCREW YOU, THEN THEY EXPECT YOU TO TURN AROUND AND SAY, “THANK YOU, PLEASE DO IT AGAIN!!”. BROKEBACK BIDEN, YOU’RE KILLING ME!!!!!”
CA regulations, politicians and feckless laws affect the entire Country! We are all complicit by not fighting back and letting them walk all over us with their mandates and fearmongering! What have we wrought in this once great Country??
Remember the song: “ One day soon “ ! .
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GOD does not like what is happening to his Creation !
The LION will roar, evil is a sin and GOD KNOWS ALL.
PRAY for our FREEDOM
GOD BLESS AMERICA
Another nail in the coffin for the democrats just need to throw the dirt they have been pitching around for years in their faces.
Maybe the big one will finally hit and break CA off into the sea. Then we can build new ports in NV and get rid of a problem for good. CA is lost and no longer represents the values of America. And remember, Joe Biden did that! FJB!!!
If every container ship would reroute to Florida or other east cost ports, then just maybe California ports faced with no work would get off the pot and correct the mistake of electing demorats to run their state! Why isn’t the Republican run states not having the same problems? Wake up and vote Republican all the way down to dog catchers!
LMAO! Everyone is sooo upset their MADE IN COMMUNIST CHINA crap is late.
Dock workers and delivery drivers should be employed as US Engineers, Designers and production workers ………………………………MAKING IT IN AMERICA!
The CCP, Wall Street, The US ☭hamber Of ☭ommerce and ☭orporate Ameri☭a bribed ☭ongress to write the laws that made it legal to screw over America and allow the greatest transfer of jobs, wealth and intellectual property in modern history to an avowed enemy, Communist China, making them the threat they are today.
☭ongress and ☭orporate America are the real enemy!
…And of course the MIC, DOD and Joint ☭hief’s are OK with this. They just asked for trillions to pretend fight an enemy that ☭ongress and ☭orporate America created.
let’s all hope this interferes with Nancy’s ice cream deliveries!