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and aircraft. all kidding aside, he s come off the sidelines. he s retired, helped us identify and get ahead of the challenges that arise at our ports, our railroads, and on the road. this is about reducing costs for families. you know, i have to admit to you, a lot of the elected officials have been in office for a while. every once in a while something you learn makes you viscerally angry, like if you had the person in front of you, you would want to pop them. i really mean it. there are nine major ocean line companies that ship from asia to the united states. they form three consortiums. these companies have raised their prices by as much as 1000%. so everything coming from asia, 90 some percent of it is stuff coming from asia. they ve raised it by 1000%. that s why i called on congress to crack down. they re foreign-owned shipping companies that raised their prices, while raking in just last year $190 billion in profit. a sevenfold increase in one year. sevenfold in ....
Go to 24/7. with all of the talk about infrastructure, there is nothing in there that would get up-state on machinery and automation in these ports. that s also because it is long shore men oppose it. consumers don t want to wait. they hate shortages. they want prosperity and government s central planning is not the answer. laura: about the fact that we were able to ramp up manufacturing in the united states in the 1930s and 40s to win the war. we could do that but we can t get cargo unloaded from some ships? it s unbelievable. laura: it s a joke. i liked your opening. ....
Always do like covid. shame and intimidation. unbelievable. he needs private companies to save his keister. it s tragic he doesn t understand how good american businesses are and can be. i don t know if they will solve this problem. you don t have enough long shore men or truck drivers. you can open up the container cartons. laura: they have a shortage of pilots and healthcare workers and should teachers and nurses and now for a lot of reasons including sometimes their vaccine issues, they are not getting the worker there is. that s a fact. well, i don t know whether ups or fed-ex has enough workers. i don t know that. ....
Smart thing as a parent i will just keep bringing that up. it is the only thing i have over you guys. it is a smart thing, but how many people get these done when they are drunk. everybody. i always had a feeling the only people who should get tattoo are guys in the military and strippers and make long shore men. have i been all three. i think athletes shouldn t get tattoo. olympic rings if you have been to the olympics? you get that tattoo. i was in row 54. can i get one? of course you can. i was there on the couch watching a tape of it. i want to get a tattoo that just says tattoo. would that freak people out? the russian band tattoo? no, like fantasy island. yow, isn t getting a tattoo while you are drinking how memories are made? it is what america is made of. i think the 24-hour waiting ....
Of dollars thanks to a temporary contract extension. the workers now have another five weeks to work out their labor dispute with port owners and shippers. phil keating following the story in our south florida newsroom. boy, phil, this affected ports from giewrch houston. how did these two sides get together? well, they did what congress has failed to do. that is they worked out a deal. but since this deal is still not entirely permanent. neither side is giving specifics as who who bundle and if both sides bundle and how much. the key sticking point all along has been the long shoreman get paid more the heavier a container is the owners of the shipping company wanted those capped. the longer shore men did not. this from the federal mediator in washington today quote. the container royalty payment issue has been agreed upon in principle by the parties. subject to achieving an overall collective bargaining agreement. the deadline now is february 6th. so five and a half weeks from now, ....