There’s still over $40B in cargo on container ships waiting offshore

I drive past the Port of Oakland, CA almost every day. They have 88 gantry cranes and dozens of berths for cargo discharge and loading, but the are only using one berth and one set of gantry cranes at any given moment. The Longshoremen's Union has their longest waiting-for-dispatch list in decades, but the claim is made that the bottleneck is due to a labor shortage. Hundereds, evn thousands of workers wanting to come back to work for the excellent pay and benefits.

The "labor shortage" excuse is complete BULLSH*T!

its part of the plan to punish Americans and collaps America. Its been a demonrat plan for decades to destroy America...

Unless they're hauling all the essentials into ships, destroy the production on US soil, then unload as a stop gap.

The entire US is then reliant on imports thereafter.

People keep talking about supply issues and shipping backlogs.

I can still order silly novelty things shipped from China and some via the US to the UK in some examples on the tracker and they get here in a manner of weeks.

Something doesnt add up. I'm convinced whatever shipping backlog we see is simply hoarding goods and intentional.

You can get enamel pin badges but certain essential wiper blades or tyre sizes or whatever are in limited supply. Really?

It's intentional.

That's what I was thinking.
Aren't the steal ships worth more than their plastic cargo?

Americans need punished for trading their Self Sufficiency for Social Benefits.

So that's why my mail order bride hasn't arrived yet...I'm not sure I want her now though...

It's all Chinese crap.

Inventories are at the highest levels ...deflation coming !!

Best We Get At It Then...

https://imgur.com/a/aGYXAmz

Inflation/Deflation Recession/Depression
The markets are completely manipulated.

The Price/Value Quantity/Quality of their product is all predetermined.
You have No say in anything - Now go vote, before you feel that you've lost control.

Container Ships are actually Mobile Warehouses.

Fucking people are idiots.

We aren't capitalists. We run a central bank planned economy. They hollowed out manufacturing by mostly:
1) Raising taxes locally and incentivizing all companies to relocate abroad via various regulations.
2) Numerous other laws passed to keep the money from being repatriated.

Of course this was for companies not DIRECTLY CONTROLLED to be forced to move abroad in order to compete with CONTROLLED companies.

Now everything is owned by the companies we cant name...which only exist as a vehicle for the political elite.

There is nothing free market capitalist about any of this.

You think the medical industry is capitalist....bwahahahahahahha.

I'm not witnessing shortages in any supply store I visit here in Phoenix Arizona, as of July 15, 2022. Auto parts are still good, groceries are still good. No local news about baby formula shortages... TV and radio ads all seem to be pushing product like air conditioners, window shades and local print ads pushing furniture. It's actually puzzling because back when this started, we were being held hostage by Toilet Paper shortages. No particular shortages are apparent here yet.

I think this is correct.

Even worse when winter hits and the oil n gas starts getting paid in rubles to Russia.