W growed a pair

dogsdad

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Re: W growed a pair

A lot of what goes on is just for public consumption. Consider Senator Whozit, who votes "for" the XYZ Bill, even though he really opposes it. He knows it won't pass, but can say he voted for it when campaign season rolls around.<br /><br />Or, a football analogy: run a play you know won't work and set up the defense to fall for a play that will work.<br /><br />Could the Administration be playing a game like this? I don't have the slightest. Could it be a maneuver for domestic political purposes? Or international political purposes? It has me guessing, big time.<br /><br />It could be a blunder, it could be something else. This is one where I don't know what to think. It should be pretty interesting to see what develops next.
 

txswinner

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Call it what you want, this is no different than if we had permitted a company owned by Iraqi 20 years ago to take over our harbor. Saddam was our buddy then. Time for us to take back America to hell with corporations.
 

txswinner

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I would start with double port fees for ships flying any flag other than the Stars and Stripes.
 

kenimpzoom

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txwinner, probably about 90% of all ships carry the flag of Panama or Monrovia. Much better taxes, labor laws, and registation fees.<br /><br />Ken
 

txswinner

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No safety requirements, no dumping at sea requirements, no security requirements, no pollution requirments, no liability responsibility, no American crews. Yeah we have inspectors at the ship loading but what about at sea. <br /><br />ken, This scares heck out of me and has for years. Not a R or D thing just a government needing to step in. We could enforce with heavy cost to come into our ports (if we own and run them ourselves).
 

RPJS

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Originally posted by rodbolt:<br /> RPJS<br /> no deal on Hillary, you get her for free :) <br /> however you have to take kerry and Dean and at least 6 unnamed others.<br /> has the foks in the UK had any issues with the UAE having administrative control of some UK ports?<br /><br /> actually I dont see much difference I just think it funny how washington DC went nuts.<br /> seems the current administration got suprised,again.<br /> ill get back to ya on the last 6 :) :)
There is no mention of the takeover in any of the mainstream UK media, there has been a bit of coverage in the financial press but that was bias towards how good a price the shareholders got.<br /><br />As for the US government getting supried by this deal NOT TRUE, the deal went before Washington on the 10th Feb in order to get approval on security issues, this approval was granted.
 
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