John McCain: I am pleased to introduce legislation that would fully repeal the Jones Act, a 1920s law that hinders free trade and favors labor unions over consumers. Specifically, the Jones Act requires that all goods shipped between waterborne ports of the United States be carried by vessels built in the United States and owned and operated by Americans. This restriction only serves to raise shipping costs, thereby making U.S. farmers less competitive and increasing costs for American consumers.
BrooklynBadBoy/Daily Kos: This GOP talking point isn't about the Gulf oil spill. It is about cutting shipping costs for big corporations by outsourcing our shipping. First, they ship the jobs overseas. Now they want to ship the shipping overseas.
The shipping would be primarily a sell out to China. To go along with the manufacturing. The tech goes to India. That these people would sell out the American worker for their own political and financial gain is sick. That most Americans have no idea who's to blame for the export of their jobs is a massive failure of Democratic messaging.
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