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If you read this report from the Los Angeles Times you would still have no understanding of why in ten years the LA ports will be closed and redesigned as another Marina Del Rey, a playground for the rich and elite.
Not once does it say that the high costs are due to a union monopoly running the ports. It does not say that the unions used a State agency, CARB, which used AB 32, to get rid of Hispanic, non union truckers--raising the cost of facilities. Nor does it mention that YOU, gave $1 billion in bond money to buy trucks for wealthy corporations, as long as they agree to only hire truckers who pay bribes to work at the port.
Within ten years one of the worlds largest ports, and most modern, will be opened in Mexico, south of San Diego. Thanks to NAFTA, Mexican truckers will have free rein on our roads--and they are NON UNION and get paid Mexican wages--our ports will not be able to compete.
"The decline has been felt by veteran longshoremen who are unable to find more than two or three days of work a week and by part-timers who find none. It has meant thousands of furloughed railroad workers and idled trains, and warehouse staffers who have been forced to take temporary work.
Coming back from a year like that isn't the biggest concern of Southern California port officials. Their larger worry comes from new competitors in Canada and Mexico, not to mention U.S. ports on the Gulf of Mexico and the East Coast that have elbowed their way past smaller West Coast ports in the last decade."
The year 2009 will look good as the other nations bring their ports on line, expand them, and provide cheaper and better facilities. Wait for the future.
Between high taxes, higher fees, unions and AB 32, the ports are no longer competitive. Might as well redevelop them now and not waste money on trying to keep up the California version of a buggy whip manufacturer.
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Not once does it say that the high costs are due to a union monopoly running the ports. It does not say that the unions used a State agency, CARB, which used AB 32, to get rid of Hispanic, non union truckers--raising the cost of facilities. Nor does it mention that YOU, gave $1 billion in bond money to buy trucks for wealthy corporations, as long as they agree to only hire truckers who pay bribes to work at the port.
Within ten years one of the worlds largest ports, and most modern, will be opened in Mexico, south of San Diego. Thanks to NAFTA, Mexican truckers will have free rein on our roads--and they are NON UNION and get paid Mexican wages--our ports will not be able to compete.
"The decline has been felt by veteran longshoremen who are unable to find more than two or three days of work a week and by part-timers who find none. It has meant thousands of furloughed railroad workers and idled trains, and warehouse staffers who have been forced to take temporary work.
Coming back from a year like that isn't the biggest concern of Southern California port officials. Their larger worry comes from new competitors in Canada and Mexico, not to mention U.S. ports on the Gulf of Mexico and the East Coast that have elbowed their way past smaller West Coast ports in the last decade."
The year 2009 will look good as the other nations bring their ports on line, expand them, and provide cheaper and better facilities. Wait for the future.
Between high taxes, higher fees, unions and AB 32, the ports are no longer competitive. Might as well redevelop them now and not waste money on trying to keep up the California version of a buggy whip manufacturer.
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