The Jones Act Makes Shipping More Expensive 

Makes my blood boil

i bet she enjoys watching lower class people suffer

@@sauravnarayan2294 Yup, union spokesperson!

It made me shiver how happy/delusional she appeared.

Don't you just want to introduce her to your Louisville Slugger?

There is no government, only ondividuals with broken moral compass.

Look at the stuff they do in the light then imagine what the fuck they must be doing in the dark...

Worker/trade unions are a plague.

And stupid people think that voting is going to fix it

Government is corruption and coercion. That is its purpose in the world. The only good reason to have one is to protect yourself from the other bad ones around the world.

😂

She doesn't care about human life. It's all about status quo and money. It's like when a lawyer is hired by someone to negotiate a payment stipulation and fights all proposals as if the money will come out of his pocket and not his clients. Did you even take the proposal to your client or are you shutting it down because you don't agree with the terms? SMH. This is why I voted for Gary Johnson in 2016 and supported Rand Paul in 2020. I'm not sure who I'll support in 2024 yet, but it certainly won't be Crony Corporatists like Biden or Trump.

@@DanSolo871 I forgot the oil companies are our friends. They wouldn't want to make more money buyundercutting Americans. They are lobbying DC just like she is.

Yeah, I was looking for gum disease.

@@DanSolo871 Gary Johnson? Lmao you lost all credibility with that brag

She has an annoying face, we all know. But assuming that she knows better isn't necessarily fair. There are many people that haven't heard strong arguments from both sides before. Also, people naturally hold different ideals. She may be hard focused on America-first. Honestly I'd like to hear a strong case for the Jones act, even though I believe it's probably not the right choice in my current view.

Politicians will allow anybody to suffer - no matter what it is

I think she's just evil. She'd probably sell her own child for 62 cents.

I could smell her horse breath through my screen

"Hell is empty, and all the devils are here."

That is a good point. There are lots of antiquated laws that are not followed out of common sense. The Puerto Rican Port Authority could have allowed the ship to dock.

She has to protect her rice bowl.

Cough (UNIONS) Cough

Guarantee she supports abortion.

The government in El Salvador helped their people by locking up 1000s of gangsters

"You said it - with a mouthful" How true. Twas ever thus.

You are all cattle to the people with the guns and magical "Authority" they will gut the golden geese if they ever bite them, poverty and misery is power to get votes to "fix" the problem

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I agree that unions should be illegal.

Lobbying is speech. Bezos owns the Washington Post, Carlos Slim, Mexican Billionaire owns the New York Times. Well, a group of people can band together and make their voice heard, not just billionaires.

@@amariner5 sorry let me rephrase that. Monetary gain from voting a certain way should be illegal. Is that specific enough for you or do you want to split more hairs?

@@amariner5 Lobbying is speech if done by individuals. industries and corporations aren't even owed or granted free speech under the constitution or nature. That is right held by individuals only. Perverting the law to turn corporations and union lobbying groups into some sort of pseudo person with rights is a huge part of the problem we have with corruption today. Backroom deals to make laws that criminalize competition in order to create and maintain monopolies in an industry is not speech, it's subversion and borderline treason on the part of the law makers.

@@josh885 does the New York Times, a corporation owned by billionaire Carlos Slim, and supporting his agenda, get free speech? Does the Washington Post, owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, and supporting his agenda, get free speech? Of course they do. You have to open your eyes. Every one except individuals has free speech. If you want your speech protected, you better form a corporation.

It's why 20/20 ruled Friday night in the 80's and 90's.

Small unions that work locally seem to be good. Large, national ones are parasitic to everything it touches.

One of Margaret Thatcher's greatest victories in the UK was smashing the union strangleholds. Unions almost killed UK car industry, steel production, and especially mining.

No, the union leadership with the Democrats party has hurt America. Corporate salaries have skyrocketed while the average workers wages stagnated. A healthy union would be using its power to push the Democrats out of the bed with corporations.

Unions have been bastardized, they used to be for the little guy, but now, they are politicians the same as billionaires

So very true!!

Foreign Captains sailing our rivers?

@@bigmouth912 Who cares what the nationality of the captain or ship that's making deliveries in the US? If there's a demand for them, let them join the market!

@@kelbycaplinger5367noooo but everybody is out to get usss!!! If we let le foreign merchants trade with us they’ll sell info to the Chinese and Russians!! Even though they could just use satellites to map out the Mississippi River and stuff on it!! -t bigmouth

Of course! She getting PAID for it. Paid with OUR TAXPAYERS money 🤑 to fund THEM. The goddamn sly,slick,and selling-snake-oil-salesman's pitch type of advocates that had supported that farce. It's a disgrace. She ought to be in politics. 😅😅😅😮😮😮😮.

Because she defended American jobs? Why should we surrender what is a good career, to the Chinese? To save you a few pennies? Are you in a job that can't be done by a lower-priced foreigner? Also, the fuel crisis on PR was from a lack of trucks. The Port was at least 1/2 full of fuel.

If it was not for the Jones act US waterways would be dominated by Chinese vessels. Does anybody really want that? People just do not look at the bigger picture. Right now nearly 90% of US trade is internal if the Jones act was lifted the US would be exposed to both German, Chinese and Russian trade and that would not be a good thing.

It's because she was defending to stay in her cushy job; If she disagreed, she would lose out on benefits.

Econ 101 - High paying American jobs and inexpensive American-made goods cannot co-exist. I have to chuckle when I see someone post "Bring back American jobs!" or "[Item X] should be made in America!"...AS IF some person, group or entity decided to send these manufacturing facilities and jobs overseas, and thus the decision can simply be undone. THE FREE MARKET forced them overseas. Want more American-made goods and American manufacturing jobs? One of two things has to happen: Consumers must be willing to pay higher prices than foreign goods; or American workers must abandon unions and stop demanding higher-than-market wages. Until either scenario happens, nothing will change. I'm sure the union members will try to excoriate me, but my post is an economic reality that cannot be refuted.

We? Or the jooz?

@@bloodspartan300 and we haven't stopped them either.

Hey, maybe if you endorsed reducing the extreme rate of over-taxation & draconian over-regulation in the U.S. then those industries would rise once more. .... but nah. Keep endorsing tyranny & corruption. You are correct that you are the worst enemy of the U.S., leftist.

The EU entered into a long term contract to get gas... From russia. How well did that go?

If the Jones Act was eliminated tomorrow, there would still be additional costs. All of the marine terminals and port infrastructure was built by and is owned by Jones Act compliant carriers like Crowley and TOTE who currently ship to the island. Given the large amount of time and money they have invested in these facilities/equipment, they either aren't going to let their competitors use them or will charge them hefty tariffs/fees which would result products, goods and materials still retaining the additional costs. So don't blame the Jones Act, blame the Puerto Rican government for not investing in municipal port and marine terminal facilities and equipment like you would find at many mainland U.S. ports. Any vessel can enter Puerto Rico.

@@s.v.saylaraye3212 No, I can blame the Jones Act. The port owners may well decide to charge more, but the law disallows it completely. If the costs were egregious enough, for long enough, then others would undoubtedly step in to undercut Crowley and TOTE - assuming that government didn't disallow that as well

@@s.v.saylaraye3212 No one expects that a repeal of the Jones Act would solve every problem the next day. The facts are that when you let the free market work, it does. Odd how you blame the PR government for causing the problem because the government didn't do enough.

Cabotage laws are not unique to the Jones Act. Most countries with a coastline have cabotage laws. Even many of those without a coastline have similar laws for aviation, railways, and road transport. It is essentially a free market. Any vessel can enter Puerto Rico. In fact, many foreign vessels enter Puerto Rico regularly, importing goods from countries around the world. However, transportation of goods between two U.S. ports must be carried out by a vessel that was built in the U.S. and operated primarily by Americans. How exactly is it odd that the failings of the Puerto Rican government to provide municipal port facilities and equipment has caused their own problem? Is it the private shipping companies fault that the Puerto Rican government left that void which private business had to fill themselves in order to efficiently conduct business there? Isn't that the essence of the free market you were babbling about? The Port of Tampa for example it is a landlord port. The port authority is responsible for port planning, acts as regulatory body, and owns port-related land and basic infrastructure (like modern gantry cranes). The infrastructure is then leased to a private operating company (Ports America). Ports America is a stevedoring and terminal operator and not a shipping company so it does not discriminate against individual shipping customers any more than a regular business would (the free market you were babbling about). In the Port of Virginia, the port authority directly operates a fully automated marine terminal. Neither Hillsborough county Florida or the Commonwealth of Virginia are islands and were able to develop modern port facilities and infrastructure through different business/governing models. In both those cases there is more government oversight/control than in Puerto Rico because everything is owned and controlled by self-sustaining autonomous government organizations. So Puerto Rico operates in more of a free market that the mainland USEC.

John Stossel used to work for ABC and had a show on FOX News.

They already have Sal… who knows more.

@@captiannemo1587 Sal?

@@joelellis7035 Yeah and what does that tell you about what's happened to MSM news when he used to work for them and no longer does!

Stossel won Emmys as a young, liberal reporter on ABC. Then he became a libertarian and they forgot he existed.

Crime paids government

But governments sometimes have good intentions because they’re following the will of the people. Like trade tariffs, for example. Many people will vote for a certain politician because he promises to tax foreign goods. In the end, it leads to higher prices and less competition for the special interests that are being protected.

@@Phil-ui4tm The road to ruin is always paved with good intentions, always.

Only to lie and spin and attempt to manipulate with an entirely soulless ghastly visage of false joy.

@@Confused_Dog 😆🤣Her perspective was tough to believe for sure. But debate and conversation about these topics are important. So, grateful that she put herself out there.

She is supporting American LABOR too!

@@brandonminert6169 Bullshit. "debate" & "conversation" are only important if the involved parties are there in good faith which that clam was not.

@@Archedgar I get why you say that. Again, I don't agree with what she said, but honestly, how many of Stossel's videos does he say that these organizations completely ignore requests for interviews? I was surprised that she came on and at least tried to defend her stance.

Seriously! If the USA doesn't even have a Natural Gas ship in its entire merchant fleet, it's impossible. You can't plan for Impossible! 😡

Because there is the possibility of having more natural gas than could be used.

She make a great point. He did fuck up big time, not securing his gas needs

@Frontyer She did not make a great point. Using restrictions to maintain shipping monopolies is not how you maximize efficiency. It is how you keep rich people in power and prevent them from ever being replaced by better people.

@@Matthew-Anthony You are correct. Years ago I was an agent for a group of parcel delivery , we had a monopoly in Texas which was able to keep UPS from handling intrastate parcels although were able to pickup and deliver in certain commercial zones. The service was mediocre at best, they shunned technology and saw no reason to strive to do better. Eventually the law changed, UPS came in and within a year the monopoly was defunct.

@ Drewko, "cunning stunt" If you exchange the first two letters of those two words, it would be more appropriate for this woman. But I assume that's what you meant in the first place.

I'm using "cunning stunt" as a euphemism going forward.

Except the Jones Act doesn't only protect UNION jobs. There are lots of jobs that aren't union. Do you really want foreign ships in oil & gas exploration in the Gulf of Mexico? Do you want bad people with bad intentions getting access to the L.O.O.P.? If we don't have AMERICAN mariners that have to go through many background checks to work the oil & gas industry here in America, you're going to get bad people that want to hurt us & our ability to produce our own oil & gas. Not to mention all the barge traffic along the many rivers, lakes and coastwise voyages that carry all sorts of goods that would now be subject to nefarious actors. How about just 1 nefarious actor that blocks up a major waterway by whatever means? You think it's expensive now to use U.S. built, flagged, owned and crewed vessels? Your costs would skyrocket as a result of having to ship things to your city by rail or truck.

I think the teachers are finally figuring out that the unions don't represent them or the students. They represent the sweetheart deals they've cut with education administrators and politicians. That's why we are experiencing so many teacher shortages lately.

Not even similar.

Yes... it is. Only the teachers unions are 100x worse.@@ericgardner5548

Thank you John!

If you support repealing the Jones Act, and hurting high paying American jobs, you can’t complain about NAFTA and other policies that send blue collar jobs offshore where Americans can’t compete with cheap labor.

@@marktheshark7754 Any policy that restricts your use of your property is anti-American. With that said, you don't have a right to a market price (high paying jobs), and you don't have a right to tell owners where they can have labor done for their company. Repealing the Jones Act is about liberating American business owners and letting them have control over their own property. It's not about hurting jobs. Profit margins are tight, can't just pay workers what workers want, so workers don't work there, now what? Have to find someone to do the work, right? Let the business owners figure out that problem, instead of handcuffing the business owners with stupid existing regulations, and more and more future regulation and restrictions.

@@marktheshark7754 I thought leveling the playing field was why we had tariffs, But I guess Tariffs are arbitrary.

This isn’t a rip off. John is wrong on this one. If not for the Jones Act America wouldn’t have a merchant marine. It would all be foreign flagged

Lift a law Americans lose, Pass a law Americans lose, give more responsibility to citizens and less to the government eliminate lobbying, civilian oversight/evaluation committees remove laws protecting wealthy criminals from imprisonment, I'd say that would be a good start.

Some much more than others, including those of us living in Hawaii.

The way she grins as words spew forth from her mouth ...

Oh yeah she looked like a nut case

This comment is so fucking on point!

Jones Act waivers were issued for all foreign tankers. Foreign ships are 100 percent permitted to dock in Puerto Rico if the cargo is delivered there first. Puerto Rico is not a large enough market for foreign shipping companies to invest in the infrastructure and deeper water ports to deliver the amount of fuel the island needs. This has nothing to do with the Jones Act. Also, in the early days of the hurricane the fuel supply at the port was sufficient to supply the island but island transportation was impossible or very slow.

Tell me about it I remember waiting three or five hours to get gas it was a nightmare.

@@michaeldonovan7522it has everything to do with the Jones act as it not only cost the island so much but it limits help when we need it and it played a big role as to why we couldn’t get sufficient support. A tanker sailing from Texas to Europe diverted to Puerto Rico to bolster the island’s depleted diesel fuel stocks. But, because of this stupid century‐​old U.S. maritime law, the foreign‐​flagged ship waited offshore for days before federal officials allowed its much‐​needed cargo to be offloaded. So it’s definitely that outdated law and you can drive from one side of the island to the other in two to three hours so transportation had nothing to do with it. It needs to go.

yeah lets let some "competition" foreign mariners at $20 a day move all of out military equipment in times of war.

@@bryanachee7133 did you even watch the video?

@@bryanachee7133 spend trillion dollars for military but they can't afford a few cargo ships. Get real Bryan. The strategic power of having some shipmen isn't that strong to require such a anti-competition law.

@@TheBanshee90 and where are they going to build them. We can’t even build warships fast enough .you know who has plenty of merchant ships? China

Post war or pre war fallout bathrooms?

Crime paids government

Well then give us a good reason why you want foreign vessels operating on US rivers. Imagine that, a Russian nat gas ship going through the hudson riverHow stupid does that sound and you agree with that.

@@ViburaBlanca Surely there's a difference between inland v. coastal waterways.

@@WNH3 I know, so getting rid of the Jones Act opens both inland and coastal. Even then it’s a terrible argument. Foreign vessels operating on our coast with un vetted crews from unstable nations. Sounds smart derp

NAFTA prohibits goods from entering Canada and then just being transported to the US. Is there a black market well the answer to that is most certainly but that applies to anything really.

So what you are saying is that I should open a port in Panama that people can "stop" at and use as their from destination.

@@bighands69 That is a tax regulation. It doesn't prevent the actual motion of goods, but rather just still applies the foreign import tax relevant to the actual source of the item. The point of using another Port is to be able to use whatever shipping company you want to move it from point A to B. A foreign ship can easily transport something from a US port to a CA port with no hassles. You can't ship anything "domestically" using a foreign ship, regardless of route or location of ports. It doesn't matter if the journey between the two US ports requires going around the whole continent and navigating two oceans, and not staying within the EEZ(let alone the actual US water borders).

@@ShaggyRogers1 I never said it prevented the good. What it does is to ensure that good entering into Canada and are then transported to the US are still classified as an import outside of NAFTA. Goods cannot be imported into Canada and then sent to the US as if they are a Canadian good.

money is how things get done in DC

@@danieldismukes4972 No way, really?

Yeah, because no one uses attorneys to function as bag men for politicians...

John, industries don't manipulate congress. Congress has the only game in town. Selling bills. They are the troll at the bridge. You want something. You'll have to pay the troll.

the oil and foreign shipping companies don't lobby in DC? LOL

Absolutely! It should be at least 10 times that!

Forward this report to at least 3 or 4 people in your circle. That might help the subscription numbers rise.

Because he doesn't do a good job researching, and cherry picks what is put out.

@@DevinDeCremer no, stossel has a good reputation. He left msm when it went woke

@@izafanime, that's not why people, like him, leave main stream whatever. It's so they can put out whatever they want without having to be checked.

If you wanted to fly to Puerto Rico from Europe, you would first fly into that airlines hub like New York, Miami, Atlanta, ect... then change planes and board a feeder plane to San Juan. Products, goods and materials shipped on a vessel from Europe arrive in Puerto Rico in the same exact manner. Cruise ships make up only a tiny sector of the Maritime & Shipping Industry.

@@midtownmariner5250 why wouldn’t there be any US ships? Because they’re forced to compete with foreign companies? American car manufacturers has to compete with foreign companies yet they’re still around. Why would it be different for shipping

@@s.v.saylaraye3212 and your point? Should it be that way?

Even more so the US has the largest intranavigable waterway system in the planet and over 12 continental rivers the Jones Act is what keeps the train industry in place, it costs 15% less to move goods by waterway than rail if you repeal Jones act railway simply cannot compete. We are opening a new superport in the Virgin Islands and starting a virgin island lease that is equivalent to a U.S. lease but at a cheaper cost. We should get rid of the whole thing honestly.

Utilizing transshipment ports is standard operating procedure for most major shipping companies for business/cost reasons. The airline or rail industries didn't invent it, they copied it from the Maritime industry. It has been proven a proven business model for centuries and in many different countries with the added benefits of preserving domestically owned shipping infrastructure for national security purposes and ensuring safety in territorial waters.

Has absolutely nothing to do with the Jones act. Open up US water ways and it will in a very short period of time be dominated by Chinese vessels. Is that really what Americans want? What really needs to be looked at is why are US ships not being developed like they were 60 years ago. Even though US trade is dominated by internal trade. The answer is probably that everyday manufacturing was outsourced at a certain level so that those goods are now coming into super ports on both coasts.

@@bighands69 That & also that it is prohibitively expensive to flag a vessel U.S. Why can't we do away with the excessive penalties to our shipyards and transport companies to encourage U.S. ship building? Do away with the ridiculously heavy taxes on goods shipped from U.S. ports to other U.S. ports. There are a myriad of fixes for this problem our government COULD do. They just WON'T do any of them because they might lose a revenue stream.

The entire lobbying industry in the USA needs looking at. It's legalised corruption.

Better yet, they should all sunset. Make the politicians agree to extend them every time. The incentive should be toward freer trade.

Every law passed; every law, should have a 'Sunset' clause. Haven eaten the rotten apple once, maybe, maybe, we could make a better choice...given the chance.

At the very least any economic regulation should have a sunset clause.

@@trailblazer632 Any law above county level should have a sunset clause.

I was thinking the same thing...

Its her faux smile. Its such a plastic, trained smile that she has been told to use to disarm people. Ironically, with any amount of awareness most people can see through that sort of thing

As someone is a pro-choice moderate, I was offended by the use of that phrase!

The tone of her voice is just nasty and confrontational. She should be embarrassed because she sounds like an eighth grade "know it all" child.

The empress who wasn't sounds a lot like this woman.

The people who are in charge are mentally ill and disconnected from reality

@@user-uj3zk2cx8t pretty acurate

You don't even understand what was said in this video or how/why the Jones act even exists.

@@DrummerJacob go play your drums, little boy.

@@DrummerJacob okay, since you know and assuming I don't, why don't you refute my comment?

Well, we could have no union jobs, and all live in our parent's basements.

It is not just unions. The Jones act protects US water ways from being dominated by foreign markets such as China. The Jones act has features that are built in that restrict the market and are not good but it also has features that ensure the US water ways do not get dominated by foreign powers. Could the Jones act be reformed probably but good luck trying to do that.

@@bighands69 .... and you think your cowardice justifies your endorsement of slavery? it doesn't. It makes it (you) even worse.

@@amariner5 If you require a union to get out on your own, that's on you. Unions ruin the free market because their corrupt leaders are in bed with politicians.

@@bighands69 The Jones Act was introduced by Unions. Getting rid of the Jones Act and unions would be a great way to improve our economy. (Still more to do, though.)

If the Jones Act was eliminated tomorrow, there would still be additional costs. All of the marine terminals and port infrastructure was built by and is owned by Jones Act compliant carriers like Crowley and TOTE who currently ship to the island. Given the large amount of time and money they have invested in these facilities/equipment, they either aren't going to let their competitors use them or will charge them hefty tariffs/fees which would result products, goods and materials still retaining the additional costs. So don't blame the Jones Act, blame the Puerto Rican government for not investing in municipal port and marine terminal facilities and equipment like you would find at many mainland U.S. ports.

@@s.v.saylaraye3212 that's one circumstance and your claim is 100% speculative, the Jones Act destroyed all sorts of maritime services by rendering them too expensive. It actually drove ship building out of the country, and that's a historical fact.

It is 0% speculative. I have been in the Maritime Industry for >20 years including many years as a professor at a State Maritime Academy studying the Jones Act and a professor at another institution teaching Naval Shipyard Apprentices. I write this from an airport because my company has me travelling to St. Thomas and St. Croix to figure out how to increase port efficiency since there is very little port infrastructure/equipment other than one particular shipping company owns a mobile harbor crane that they exclusively use for themselves. Everything else is done by ship's gear which is very inefficient/slow. These inefficiencies contribute to costs. Reducing those inefficiencies requires investment in equipment which also increases costs. Those costs get passed along to the customer because people go into business to make a profit and not break even. So no, it is not just one circumstance. I could write on here all day about the challenges of shipping to Hawaii, Alaska and a host of other U.S. territories. I used Puerto Rico as an example because that was what was mentioned in the video. America's shipbuilding problem has nothing to do with the Jones Act. Most U.S. shipyards are focused on military shipbuilding because our federal government (which doesn't have the same profit concerns as private business) pays a premium versus other customers or the tug and barge industry because it serves a very unique/niche market. The Maritime Security Program essentially cancels out any negative effects the Jones Act has on U.S. shipbuilding and operation by paying shipping companies the difference in costs to build and operate U.S. flag/U.S. crewed (mostly) ships versus foreign flag and that's an actual fact. The shipbuilding topic is an entire other huge rabbit hole that I simply don't have the time to get into in the RU-vid comments. Military Sealift Command alone operates 130 merchant marine vessels, MARAD another 100 and there are 60 ships in the Maritime Security Program alone. No other nation on the planet has anywhere close to that UNREP/Sealift capability so our shipbuilding model/needs is very different and not even comparable to any other situation.

@@s.v.saylaraye3212 *"B-but we shouldn't, I mean can't get rid of corruption that benefits me! that's crazy talk!!"*

What are you even talking about? How is a law that was passed in 1920 that is essentially the same as the laws every other nation with a coastline has considered corruption? Did someone grease the palms of President Woodrow Wilson so that he wouldn't veto it? Did someone rig the 1920 Presidential election so that Warren Harding would be elected? How do I benefit from the Jones Act? I have worked for both foreign flag and Jones Act carriers. Both paid me roughly the same.

Union scum.

Is it that half as interesting video ?

​@@biscoito1r If you are interested in our laws and why things are so expensive then yeah it's interesting... It's not a long video...

You're correct. What's even funnier is the fact that people think we have capitalism. This shows that we don't.

What if the competition can undercut you because they don't have to follow all the regulations that you do? Thats what's happening with foreign shipping. Its not a fair playing field. We need to jones act to protect American shipping.

@@TheCarnivoreSoprano Capitalism isn't even a thing. It's a socialist/communist term that seeks to put an evolved system like the free-market on the same level as a synthetic idealized system like communism or socialism. We chose to have a free market in the same we chose to start walking up right. You are correct though, the problems of the free-market are created and accelerated by not having the market be free.

Any vessel can enter Puerto Rico. In fact, many foreign vessels enter Puerto Rico regularly, importing goods from countries around the world. However, transportation of goods between two U.S. ports must be carried out by a vessel that was built in the U.S. and operated primarily by Americans.

@@TheCarnivoreSoprano Same here in the UK. Haven't had free markets for over a century

What else can you expect from someone whose job is to make excuses for corruption

Welcome to unions.

let it rip, where did she lie?

@@bryanachee7133 Found the shill. We all saw the same video, fef.

Simply cutting costs by hiring a foreign worker for pennies on the dollar is not healthy. People like you would sell thier mother to save ten cents

You really want to kill the merchant marine, don't you? Unions are the reason any saftey regulation stays in place and the jones act is the only thing keeping american inland crews from being replaced by underpaid forien crews. If you want to be treated like a doormat by big business, go for it. But don't expect any help when the rug gets pulled out and your job goes to an Indian payed 30 cents an hour

As John brings up, multiple Asian countries have large subsidies to build ships and dominate the world market. So actually the government subsidy is putting competition out of business.

Even if they get rid of the jones act which I hope they don’t . doesn’t mean that these greedy multi billion dollar corporations are going to lower the cost for you lol it’s just going to add more profit for them . Unless you believe the lies and think these billionaires care about you 😂 at the cost of you paying a few pennies less

wrong@@williamconroy5875

She reminds me of the donkey in Shrek 🤣

But you did.

The port had fuel. It was a lack of trucks on PR that lead to the inability to get fuel from the port to consumers. This was solved by US Flag, US Crewed (as in US Labor) ships shortly thereafter.

They do not make peoples lives worse. You can whine all you want but poor planning is no excuse of the Jones act being in place. DO you want US waterways dominated by foreign powers?

@@amariner5 so you're saying that the Jones act was irrelevant here then? You unintentionally made a great case to abolish it....Let's do that.

@@bighands69 imagine missing the point, not once but twice and then asking some dumbshit rhetorical question.

@@scalp340 Lmao.....BTFO'd him with his own BS. Outstanding move.

I only heard one informed adult.

@@MariaFolsom you're right about that. I normally like Stossel but he is ill informed about this subject.

@@lovebug6822 Sorry, but what? He explained everything very well, what exactly did he get wrong?

And I, Samwise, shall fight it!

She could be a mouth of everything with those teeth. An alien or the donkey from Shrek comes to mind.

This law was made decades before the UN ever existed. It's protectionism and conservatives support it now.

Get the UN out of the United States. Get the United States out of the UN.

Your professor bought into the "national security" line that ignores 2nd, and 3rd order effects..

And the strategy is to line politicians pockets.

How do you think the US Army gets stuff from one place to another? By US Ships. We still do. I moved US Military equipment to Europe last year. Do you want the Abrams tanks to be under the control of the Chinese government?

@@amariner5 what’s the logic of a blanket law that negatively impacts American consumers for the benefit of large corporations? Simple language could easily make exceptions for military and or national security shipping. Think for yourself.

@@knowideas7184 its not just military, granted inland towboats do provide fuel for military ships, but they also move cargoes in large quantities to, from, and through many major cities in this country. The entire icww was made based off a national security concern. The jones act has thus far kept osama bin laden barge lines from shoving hundreds of thousands of tons of anfo or any bleve capable cargo into New Orleans, Corpus Christi, houston, mobile,memphis, lacross, saint paul, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and having an “accident “ that turns a major city into a crater.

@@Islandwaterjet maybe america shouldn't have conquered guam from spain then :)

​@@Islandwaterjet ??? This isn't just a place I chose to live, its where I'm from and my ancestors have lived here for thousands of years. I'm not completely sure the subsidizing you are talking about, but I'll definitely look into it. The US isn't a cruel ruler, but I was just saying the Jones Act is in fact screwing over overseas territories.

@@paulinotou It has nothing to do with the Jones act. Guam is not a state and is a territory so even if the Jones act was to be abolished tomorrow it would make no difference. Guam would not have an international port it would still need clearance from the US government. Either a new clearance system would be needed for Guam with a new port facility or goods would need to be cleared via another US port. The only solution for this is for the territory of Guam to seek state status which is a long arduous process. People complaining about the Jones act do not understand the real protection it gives to Americans.

funny because ik tons of people who loved being a mate on those ships

Tucker Carlson is not a conservative. Neither is Donald Trump. I miss Ronald Reagan.

@@jimwerther A couple of problems here. 1) Care to back up how either is not a conservative? Not that you're wrong but just saying it doesn't make it so. 2) Then who would you say is a conservative there days. There are plenty of fake ones out there and some have already announced running for president. Neo-cons don't count as conservatives, by the way.

So the loss of income and spending ability for millions of truckers won't hurt everybody? Y'all who want to automate everything are just anti-human, evil.

So it's the taxpayers job to subsidize uncompetitive industries?

Thank god it's just toilet paper. Imagine how utterly fucked Hawaii would of been if it was something actually important.

Apparently, you should have planned better and appreciated the shipping monopoly.

I have lived in Hawaii continuously since 1990. While I’m not a fan of the Jones Act, there has NEVER been a time when there was no toilet paper for weeks. Not after 9/11 when the planes stopped. Not during Covid when people were hoarding. Toilet paper comes on the container ship with everything else. There is no special cargo ship with toilet paper.

That is complete and utter nonsense. What you call crazy prices are actually proper market prices not slave labour products made in a authoritarian communist state. It used to be that work tools would take a weeks wages to a months wages to acquire. Now those tools can be bought at a fraction of a weeks wages but they are plastic junk made by childrens hands in slave camps.

From watching that video looks like in recent decades the American ship building industry already gave up if they're down to only building one ship a year.

Let’s reward inefficiency to “protect” domestic businesses. Isn’t it strange that American car manufacturers don’t have protections like these yet they are doing just fine? Why would airlines or sea transport be any different?

@@wojtek9675 Its not about protecting inefficiency, it's about recognizing that the playing field is not level. Why do you think all the microchips used in the U.S come from elsewhere, about 90% from Taiwan? Lower costs. The U.S. government has recently recognized this as a national security issue and passed a bill to incentivize building of microchip factories in the U.S. You can't think that is going to lower costs and result in cheaper microchips. Precursors for many vital pharmaceuticals come from outside the U.S., many from Communist China. Guess where Nike footwear comes from. This is what happens in a open market where some producers have a cost and regulatory advantages. It seems long ago The U.S. government decided it did not want U.S. air transportation to be outsourced to foreign enterprises, many of which are owned or subsidized by foreign governments. Seems they have long recognized foreign control of air transportation as a national security issue as well as a safety vulnerability. In terms of my own safety, I'd much rather fly on a major U.S. airline than on Lion Air or Ethiopian Airlines. It's not a perfect world and will never be. But be careful, because those working toward a one-world government will promise you perfection.

@@gort8203 " U.S. government has recently recognized" Ahahahaha! This has been going on for so long and NOW they figure it out. Government efficiency at it's best. And if they are that good and FINALLY recognizing a problem. What are the chances they'll come up with the best solution?

@@glynnetolar4423 I hope you don't expect a response to your rhetorical question.

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That is not the problem if the Jones act that is the problem if the states having poor planning and management. Complaining about the restrictions put on foreign vessels in US water ways is not going to change that. The alternative is unrestricted water way access that ends up being dominated by cheap Chinese vessels that flood the water ways with toxic waste. While getting rid of the Jones act would do wonders for trade in the US it would bring so much problems that it would cost far more than the trade is worth. Right now US economic trade is dominated by internal trade if the Jones act was removed it would be a boom for trade but imagine getting exposed to Russia, China and Germany right now.

@@bighands69 YEAH. How dare people try to blame the corrupt govt for a problem govt itself is causing and actively refuses to fix? they should just bend over and let govt strip them of even more liberty, like good little slaves. That'll solve all the problems. For sure.

concede an inch, theyll take a mile.

@@SkylerJCollins They have the mile. It's got to start somewhere. Same with big pharma, big ag, dairy, and even health services.

worse thing is, even when average people who would hear things like these would just hear it from media repackaged as 'criticism on the evil free market capitalism and support for democratic socialism', not knowing the US has become one of the least free market capitalist country among free nations ( index of economic freedom by WSJ and heritage foundation), even less free than 'democratic socialists' Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Norway.

They’re paying people like that lady a massive salary to spread lies. Probably could hire multiple quality engineers for the same price as her salary. Just sayin.

Sounds like what happened to Sam walton... years ago he was trying to sell cars for less than $1,000. The dealerships shut him down and I believe a law was made somewhere to stop him from trying again

you think the shipping companies don't lobby the same way?

​@@bryanachee7133 What are you talking about? That lady represents a cabal of shipowners, shipbuilders and unions all benefiting from the Jones Act.

@AnaIvanovic4ever at least they are Americans. On the other side you have the same lobbying from foreign shipping, foreign oil and foreign manufacturing companies.

You seem smart...

@@bryanachee7133 Sure, if you are a protectionist love the Jones Act. It makes everyone poorer but at least they are Americans.