Marco Rubio said this to the Council on Foreign Relations:
My foreign policy consists of three pillars.
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. . . my second pillar, which is the protection of the American economy in a globalized world. When America was founded, it took more than 10 weeks to travel to Europe. In the 19th century, the steam engine cut that down to around 12 days. In the 20th century, the airplane cut it to around six hours. And now in the 21st century, you can access global markets in a single second with the tap of your Smart Phone.
Marco Rubio's Foreign Policy Vision
Note how Rubio cleverly blended global markets with travel time as though global markets is the same as moving merchandise. Manufactured products still takes the same time to cross an ocean it did in the last century. Cargo shipped across oceans on merchant ships is not much faster today than it was before WWI, while financial markets can be accessed in seconds.
Now please listen to what Senator Jeff Sessions says about Rubio's second pillar; i.e. the TPP:
Sen. Sessions: This administration has devastated law enforcement
Break/bulk Freighter
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Container Ship
https://tse3.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.Me237483b7e24bf59b869a86fbfec2c9fo0&pid=Api&w=239&h=239
Merchant ships carry 90 percent of the world’s dry cargo across oceans. Replacing break/bulk freighters with container ships is the only major change that took place since 1950.
The American merchant marine was the first industry that was outsourced.
Excerpt: Number 32 permalink in this thread:
Idiots, Crooks, & Bedbugs
After the end of WWII, the US was the only country that had anything; so giving away the American Merchant Marine was considered good parasite policy. A 50/50 law was the foundation. That law says that NOT MORE THAN 50 PERCENT of American cargo leaving American ports can go on American bottoms. In other words, the US said that it would give foreign bottoms fifty percent of America’s oceangoing exports.
The 50/50 law administered the coup de gras to America’s merchant fleet. This is what actually happened with 50/50. Sharpshooters immediately saw that if they put only one percent of export cargo on American ships going foreign they would not be violating the law. The race for the lowest percentage of export cargo on American ships began, and down went the American Merchant Marine along with the American shipbuilding industry.
The U.S. could have helped war-torn countries and still have maintained a substantial American maritime industry, including shipbuilding, had the law said Fifty percent of all cargo going foreign MUST go on American ships. Unfortunately for the country, the global villagers were sneaks from day one and wouldn’t hear of it.
Democrats did nothing to correct the travesty they created.
Steamship owners had no choice but to go along with globalization. During the years the American Merchant Marine was shrinking, the argument was always used to justify the reduction said that American steamship companies could not compete with cheap foreign labor. The truth is that crew salaries never bankrupted any American steamship company; whereas, political corruption destroyed quite a few. Notably, Japan, Denmark, Canada, and one or two other maritime nations paid their unionized crews higher salaries, with more fringe benefits, than American seamen were earning. Those merchant fleets did extremely well.
I firmly believe that America’s maritime policy, set in motion before the United Nations succeeded the League of Nations in 1945, is one of the first serious moves planned and executed in preparation for the coming of a global village, global financial markets, and a global economy. All paid for with the incremental loss of individual liberties in additional to a lower standard of living for productive Americans. Basically, the parasites could not raise the standard of loving in foreign countries so they lowered America’s.
As soon as the New World Order crowd was in charge of a well-founded, well-publicized, International organization, they began lobbying for more federal legislation in order to further worldwide Socialism. Capitalistic steamship owners did not initiate the policy, but went along for the money in their realm of expertise.
Shipbuilding went down the tubes with America’s merchant fleet. There are no shipyards operating in the United States that build or repair oceangoing merchant ships. The few yards that do remain in business build military vessels. One or two American yards build smaller commercial vessels like fishing boats, tow boats, barges, etc. There used to be private sector shipyards up and down the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts, as well a bunch of yards in Gulf of Mexico ports. What 50/50 contributed to the decease in American steel production is obvious as any displaced steelworker will tell you.
Aside from the obvious differences in design and purpose, merchant ships are not simply “ships.” Ships are political animals with significant political distinctions separating liquid bulk carriers (tankers), dry bulk carriers ( coal, grain, etc.), and freighters which are nearly extinct. For instance: The tanker lobby will always have more clout in Congress than does the dry bulk carrier lobby. For now, let’s hope that somebody in Washington takes a look at bringing two vital industries back to the United States irrespective of the type ship involved, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of American families those two industries will support.
WWII ended [71] years ago. The war-torn countries have been rebuilt. Now let’s rebuild the American merchant fleet with American steel, and then crew those ships with American born seamen. If members of Congress are serious about a stimulus package, a revitalized maritime industry is staring them right in the face.
You can be damn sure that bringing America’s merchant fleet back to life is not included in Rubio’s second pillar of foreign policy.
My foreign policy consists of three pillars.
XXXXX
. . . my second pillar, which is the protection of the American economy in a globalized world. When America was founded, it took more than 10 weeks to travel to Europe. In the 19th century, the steam engine cut that down to around 12 days. In the 20th century, the airplane cut it to around six hours. And now in the 21st century, you can access global markets in a single second with the tap of your Smart Phone.
Marco Rubio's Foreign Policy Vision
Note how Rubio cleverly blended global markets with travel time as though global markets is the same as moving merchandise. Manufactured products still takes the same time to cross an ocean it did in the last century. Cargo shipped across oceans on merchant ships is not much faster today than it was before WWI, while financial markets can be accessed in seconds.
Now please listen to what Senator Jeff Sessions says about Rubio's second pillar; i.e. the TPP:
Sen. Sessions: This administration has devastated law enforcement
Break/bulk Freighter
https://tse2.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.M565ed646f682a7e0d192d6f725769971o0&pid=Api&w=239&h=239
Container Ship
https://tse3.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.Me237483b7e24bf59b869a86fbfec2c9fo0&pid=Api&w=239&h=239
Merchant ships carry 90 percent of the world’s dry cargo across oceans. Replacing break/bulk freighters with container ships is the only major change that took place since 1950.
The American merchant marine was the first industry that was outsourced.
Excerpt: Number 32 permalink in this thread:
Idiots, Crooks, & Bedbugs
After the end of WWII, the US was the only country that had anything; so giving away the American Merchant Marine was considered good parasite policy. A 50/50 law was the foundation. That law says that NOT MORE THAN 50 PERCENT of American cargo leaving American ports can go on American bottoms. In other words, the US said that it would give foreign bottoms fifty percent of America’s oceangoing exports.
The 50/50 law administered the coup de gras to America’s merchant fleet. This is what actually happened with 50/50. Sharpshooters immediately saw that if they put only one percent of export cargo on American ships going foreign they would not be violating the law. The race for the lowest percentage of export cargo on American ships began, and down went the American Merchant Marine along with the American shipbuilding industry.
The U.S. could have helped war-torn countries and still have maintained a substantial American maritime industry, including shipbuilding, had the law said Fifty percent of all cargo going foreign MUST go on American ships. Unfortunately for the country, the global villagers were sneaks from day one and wouldn’t hear of it.
Democrats did nothing to correct the travesty they created.
Steamship owners had no choice but to go along with globalization. During the years the American Merchant Marine was shrinking, the argument was always used to justify the reduction said that American steamship companies could not compete with cheap foreign labor. The truth is that crew salaries never bankrupted any American steamship company; whereas, political corruption destroyed quite a few. Notably, Japan, Denmark, Canada, and one or two other maritime nations paid their unionized crews higher salaries, with more fringe benefits, than American seamen were earning. Those merchant fleets did extremely well.
I firmly believe that America’s maritime policy, set in motion before the United Nations succeeded the League of Nations in 1945, is one of the first serious moves planned and executed in preparation for the coming of a global village, global financial markets, and a global economy. All paid for with the incremental loss of individual liberties in additional to a lower standard of living for productive Americans. Basically, the parasites could not raise the standard of loving in foreign countries so they lowered America’s.
As soon as the New World Order crowd was in charge of a well-founded, well-publicized, International organization, they began lobbying for more federal legislation in order to further worldwide Socialism. Capitalistic steamship owners did not initiate the policy, but went along for the money in their realm of expertise.
Shipbuilding went down the tubes with America’s merchant fleet. There are no shipyards operating in the United States that build or repair oceangoing merchant ships. The few yards that do remain in business build military vessels. One or two American yards build smaller commercial vessels like fishing boats, tow boats, barges, etc. There used to be private sector shipyards up and down the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts, as well a bunch of yards in Gulf of Mexico ports. What 50/50 contributed to the decease in American steel production is obvious as any displaced steelworker will tell you.
Aside from the obvious differences in design and purpose, merchant ships are not simply “ships.” Ships are political animals with significant political distinctions separating liquid bulk carriers (tankers), dry bulk carriers ( coal, grain, etc.), and freighters which are nearly extinct. For instance: The tanker lobby will always have more clout in Congress than does the dry bulk carrier lobby. For now, let’s hope that somebody in Washington takes a look at bringing two vital industries back to the United States irrespective of the type ship involved, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of American families those two industries will support.
WWII ended [71] years ago. The war-torn countries have been rebuilt. Now let’s rebuild the American merchant fleet with American steel, and then crew those ships with American born seamen. If members of Congress are serious about a stimulus package, a revitalized maritime industry is staring them right in the face.
You can be damn sure that bringing America’s merchant fleet back to life is not included in Rubio’s second pillar of foreign policy.
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