Glenn E. says:

Something I just read about online, but the Tv news never mentioned. A Chinese ship was towed into Baltimore harbor today. Carrying four super large cargo cranes, also made in China (because it’s cheaper than giving US citizens the jobs). And their purpose is to increase the cargo “off loading” capacity of the Marine terminal. Mainly for Chinese goods. It’s suppose to save money, shipping goods from the west coast, which costs about $2k a container. Instead it will only cost $150 to ship goods east, from this revamped terminal. That should make Walmart happy. But I’ll bet the transportation savings won’t be passed on to you. But certainly the job losses, from increased imports and these foreign steel contracts, will. It took two months for those four cranes to be shipped to America. We probably could have built two of them in the US, in that much time. And risked losing them on a long voyage.

So exactly why is America held mostly (if not solely) responsible for climate change? When every sort of manufacturing is being (or has been) moved to China? And goods, don’t even have to be trucked or railed, from west to east, anymore. But the UN will still point its finger at the US, and never China. Because that could mess up the international trade deals.

We need a better word than “trade”, since we really don’t trade anything, both ways. How about “Jobs Sellout”, instead of World Trade? Because that’s what it’s really about. And now, there will be few jobs moving the stuff from China, from California to the east coast. But with the largest steel plant here, closing down. And nearly 2,000 jobs lost. I doubt there will be any job vacancies opening for the west coast transport workers.