People should go back to where I posted that MarAd study…
The message therein is that US shipping operations cost too much and payroll is a big part of that.
The message [B]between[/B] the lines that I got from it is that MarAd doesn’t plan to recommend ways to creatively offset those costs and let the chips fall where they may.
I did not think the union work force was that big, more around 8% and dropping . And once again the middle class has to lose so people in Hawaii can pay2% less on a can of beans, pitiful. Bureau of labor statistics 2012 public- sector workers(35%), private-sector (6.6%). Unionized.
[QUOTE=Mikey;107950]Back to Hawaii
[video=youtube_share;UhQ4d8g3tHc]http://youtu.be/UhQ4d8g3tHc[/video]
Wait… did that guy just say middle of the Atlantic? 2:20[/QUOTE]
Besides his incorrect “Atlantic” reference, that whole comment at 2:20 is incorrect…foreign vessels can stop in Hawaii, they just don’t. Hawaii folks weren’t too interested in cheap efficient transport of good inter-island when they found a way to run-off the super-ferries, why the concern now!?
This fellow in the video is an old acquaintance, my ex-wife worked with him at HPU and we babysat his daughter often. At that time, (early 90’s) he was the chairmen of the Hawaii Libertarian Party.
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Besides his incorrect “Atlantic” reference, that whole comment at 2:20 is incorrect…foreign vessels can stop in Hawaii, they just don’t. Hawaii folks weren’t too interested in cheap efficient transport of good inter-island when they found a way to run-off the super-ferries, why the concern now!?
This fellow in the video is an old acquaintance, my ex-wife worked with him at HPU and we babysat his daughter often. At that time, (early 90’s) he was the chairmen of the Hawaii Libertarian Party.[/QUOTE]
He says Hawaii is “isolated” from international shipping. He really meant to say that his mouth is isolated from his brain.
I guess it’s not hard to be isolated from Pacific Rim shipping when they are all the way over in the Atlantic.