Does anyone know if our ports are more secure since that debate over letting a middle eastern country control an American port?
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Fieldandstream30s
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Not in the slightest. That was a complete scare. The ports have as many Americans, or non-Americans, staffing them as ever, and are as subject to supervision by police and ant-terrorist organisations as much or as little as ever. That was s set-piece bit of populist foreigner bashing with no justification at all behind it. Foreigners don't have votes, so it costs little - politically - to piss them off.
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Just remember that America buys something like four times as much in other countries as other countries buy in America. If other countries retaliated in kind, America would be a BIG loser. For example, Ford and GM are losing money in the US - all their profits are made overseas. If their overseas subsidiaries were taken away, they and their suppliers would go bust - half a million jobs lost in the US. Of course, sitting in the US, you cannot see the huge swathes of the rest of the world that the US owns - you only seen the little bits of the US that foreigner a own. Travel the world and it looks different.
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