[ex-snook]

I oppose it not on the security issue. I oppose it on the basis that it is just a continuation of the outsourcing of America, British or UAE, no difference. What needs to be checked into is why there are no American companies willing to do this. This puts the whole adventure into the category of 'jobs Americans don't want to do' with the added 'American companies don't want to do'. This is the sad part for America.

[eyespysomething]

I agree with that (although I guess I support the deal on the basis its a business deal between 2 companies, and barring any added security risks than already exist, who am I to stop that?) but you can't make a company do the work.

[woodbutcher1963]

I finally figured out why Chuck Schumer was the first one to protest this Dubai Port deal. The Teamsters are against it because OVERPAID($100K) dock workers would lose jobs at all these ports that Dubai would take over. Dubai has streamlined/modernized logistics at the ports they have taken over around the world. Streamlined= lost union jobs=lost union voting power.
Look into it............

[Alberta's Child]

This puts the whole adventure into the category of 'jobs Americans don't want to do' with the added 'American companies don't want to do'. This is the sad part for America.

You might change your mind about this once you understand why "American companies don't want to do this."

It's not that they don't want to do it -- it's that foreign companies have about a 50-year head start in building the global shipping conglomerates that dominate this industry.

[spikeytx86]

This is not outsourcing, there investing in America, there not importing people from the U.A.E. to work or man the ports, there going to be the same people who work them now.

It is not outsourcing when a company invests in this country, when Toyota opens up a factory here and employs thousands of factory workers do you call that outsourcing?

[danamco]

I oppose it not on the security issue. I oppose it on the basis that it is just a continuation of the outsourcing of America, British or UAE, no difference. What needs to be checked into is why there are no American companies willing to do this. This puts the whole adventure into the category of 'jobs Americans don't want to do' with the added 'American companies don't want to do'. This is the sad part for America.




How many muzzies do you think are working on American owned large ships???

[Brian Allen]

<< What needs to be checked into is why there are no American companies willing to do this. >>

Decades of effectively RICO-racketeering criminal conspiracy and mutual accomodations among the vast criminal enterprises know as the "Democratic" party and its DNC-mobbed-up stand-over and shake-down waterfront and maritime unions. [Think F D 'Racketeering' Roosevelt and his "new deal"]

And remember President Romald Reagan's admonition that " ... government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we’ve been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. But if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? >>