The Campaign Update: California Politicians are the Main Supply Chain Issue
“It’s all due to COVID” has become the standard go-to excuse for every ill that impacts our society over the last 20 months. Last week, Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg blamed COVID for the supply chain gridlock that is growing worse by the day. But that’s just a convenient excuse, another lie that these corrupt politicians use to cover up their own malfeasance in office.
Jordan Rachel of Turning Point USA captured the nub of the U.S. supply chain issue in a single tweet on Sunday, and that nub is regulatory insanity in California. Here you go:
So, why do 40% of U.S. goods that arrive via ship come into the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles? The answer is simple: Geography.
California is the closest of the lower 48 U.S. states to China, Korea and Japan, where so many of the goods Americans consume are manufactured. That’s where all the computers and computer chips are made, where all the cellphones are made, where all the TVs are made, where most of our clothes are made, where half our cars are made and where all the solar panels, wind towers, wind turbines and critical minerals for batteries and renewable energy are processed.
The shortest and, at least before this year, cheapest way for shippers to get those goods and so many others into the United States of America - still the world’s largest consumer market - is straight across the Pacific Ocean to those two ports, and to a vastly lesser extent, the ports of San Diego, Portland, San Francisco and Seattle.
If America is to have efficient distribution of consumer goods across its 48 contiguous states, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles must operate efficiently. Obviously, that has not been happening. There are several factors why that’s the case, none of which are going to be solved by the useless measures announced by Biden and Buttigieg last week.