Opinions, talk, ideas, and critical thinking, nothing new, same old arguments to accomplish a familiar outcome; relegate U.S. citizens to unemployment and more work for much less compensation. Just take a look at the past twenty or thirty years of economic history in the U. S. Once a powerhouse of innovation and manufacturing, today a mere fraction of that American manufacturing might. Therein lies the true cost “out-sourcing”, “near-sourcing” or whatever the current popular label attached to stealing jobs from American Citizens is in use today.
Of course advocates of the Jones Act must appear reasonable because some type of dialogue with the “owners” of McCain is necessary in order to maintain credibility, but we don’t have to actually “Give” anything except lip service. It’s a proven tactic, practiced successfully by many an American enemy. McCain’s "owners will continue to pull his strings until they chip away at the Jones Act, piece by piece, until the day comes when the Jones Act becomes history. Or, Mariners as a group, can continue to let their elected representatives know that by no uncertain terms will they tolerate any aspect of the Jones Act repealed. Union mariners can demand their unions be pro-active by making defense of the Jones Act their #1 top-priority. As for Joe Boss trying to tell employee’s that it would benefit them as a whole, I offer you “Trickle Down” Economic Theory. It has proved to be a dismal failure. In fact the only trickling that occurs is the top .1% of the 1% is telling you its raining while they piss down your backs.
While my own career is in its twilight years with only one renewal to go if I choose, the younger mariner better start thinking for themselves, stop listening to the persuavive voices of Joe Boss and his minions, recognize this very serious threat to their way of life. Their alternative is to face a lifetime of a much lower standard of living for themselves and their families. Don’t we send young men and women into wars to die on foreign soil for the very same reason, “to defend our way of life?”
Stop posting pictures of your food, bitching about “small-stuff” items aboard your vessels, and get off your ass and do something about this extremely serious threat to your jobs.
What about the JA between Hawaii and the US continent, at least have a 2 stop exemption for that otherwise Hawaii suffers with less service?
[QUOTE=Lookout;161317]Opinions, talk, ideas, and critical thinking, nothing new, same old arguments to accomplish a familiar outcome; relegate U.S. citizens to unemployment and more work for much less compensation. Just take a look at the past twenty or thirty years of economic history in the U. S. Once a powerhouse of innovation and manufacturing, today a mere fraction of that American manufacturing might. Therein lies the true cost “out-sourcing”, “near-sourcing” or whatever the current popular label attached to stealing jobs from American Citizens is in use today.
Of course advocates of the Jones Act must appear reasonable because some type of dialogue with the “owners” of McCain is necessary in order to maintain credibility, but we don’t have to actually “Give” anything except lip service. It’s a proven tactic, practiced successfully by many an American enemy. McCain’s "owners will continue to pull his strings until they chip away at the Jones Act, piece by piece, until the day comes when the Jones Act becomes history. Or, Mariners as a group, can continue to let their elected representatives know that by no uncertain terms will they tolerate any aspect of the Jones Act repealed. Union mariners can demand their unions be pro-active by making defense of the Jones Act their #1 top-priority. As for Joe Boss trying to tell employee’s that it would benefit them as a whole, I offer you “Trickle Down” Economic Theory. It has proved to be a dismal failure. In fact the only trickling that occurs is the top .1% of the 1% is telling you its raining while they piss down your backs.
While my own career is in its twilight years with only one renewal to go if I choose, the younger mariner better start thinking for themselves, stop listening to the persuavive voices of Joe Boss and his minions, recognize this very serious threat to their way of life. Their alternative is to face a lifetime of a much lower standard of living for themselves and their families. Don’t we send young men and women into wars to die on foreign soil for the very same reason, “to defend our way of life?”
Stop posting pictures of your food, bitching about “small-stuff” items aboard your vessels, and get off your ass and do something about this extremely serious threat to your jobs.[/QUOTE]
If people would quit reelecting representatives that take away their jobs and rights it would help but I don’t have much hope for that. Most voters could not care less about employment judging by the representatives they elect. NAFTA and perhaps soon TPP have taken away millions of jobs. H1B visas are taking away hundreds of thousands of high paying jobs.Ships are operating in US oil producing waters with predominately foreign crews, Disney is now using the H1-B visa program to replace high paid IT people with low wage IT workers from India. Hard to hear English spoken in some departments in Orlando. But as long as the average voting goober gets to keep their gun, stop poor women from having an abortion, gays from getting married and states have the “right to fire for no reason law” everything is just fine when they go to the polls to vote. Says something about the education system when it produces fools that elect crooks that are controlled by a few smart people with all the money, meanwhile the goobers think they are living in the greatest country on earth instead of realizing their country is being sold piece by piece right along with their means of making a living.
yep
when multi engined Centre Consoles outsell bass boats you know an indian has taken your job and the people up north are getting richer and the middle class voted for that decision.
Doesn’t the supply and demands of the market determine service between Hawaii and the main land? Are the people of Hawaii truly suffering or is some organization just wanting to increase their bottom line for the sake of greed?
Why is weakening the Jones Act the first option to meet some perceived deficiency in marine transport between Hawaii and the main land U.S? Why not let the law of supply and demand sort it out and protect American Jobs at the same time as so many other countries do?
I’m sure any shortfalls in service could be solved by rule, regulation, and innovative thought. The dim-witted, unimaginiative, and eventually the most destructive action to the U.S. and the American Worker is the thoughtless and short-sighted cutting of jobs and pay. It’s a given that sometimes business situations require major cutbacks in payroll cost, hopefully distributed fairly throughout the company, including the very top paychecks. However, as the saying goes “life is not fair” and there appears to be no shortage of very wealthy and very greedy, numb-nutted owner/ceo’s who cut pay with impunity yet their own compensation remains unaffected.
Better the good people of Hawaii live with temporary shortfalls in supply just as any Island State does (Puerto Rico) than weaken the Jones Act by any degree. There will always be minor shortfalls in goods and services when you have to cross a couple thousand miles of ocean to deliver those goods. Weakening the Jones Act by exemptions won’t change that fact and will only serve the interest of a very few.
Lets face it, there’s no way in hell that in this country, in this day in age, any savings would actually be passed on to the people of hawaii, alaska, or puerto rico. The bosses will pocket the difference as pure profit. You know it.