After the media storm and political power grab over the Dubai World port operation deal it seems many are up in arms. Many of those who are against the deal have no clue as to what they are talking about. Few of them have ever even watched port operations in action or even been to a port. Recently a Political Blogger asked; "Wouldn't that make us dependent on them for everything that came in and out of America?” with regards to Dubai World.

The short answer is No. No it would not. If you mean what if they [Dubai World] purposefully caused bottlenecks and thus hurt our economy? Well I have a question for you then; "Oh you mean like our own Longshoremen unions when they went on strike in CA right?” You see those are Americans and they screwed us a whole lot worse remember? As industry was estimated at losing some 1 Billion Dollars per day from that strike by Longshoremen and their strike was because they did not want to have a computer system implemented, they wanted $100,000 per year "unioned employees” to check every container by way of a clip board remember.

That would have hurt port security a lot more if we had stayed with the old system. And some believe that a simple slide o

f the hand and containers with contraband were indeed getting thru before. How soon we forget about that issue. And who do you think is causing all this commotion this time? The same Longshoreman along with Senator Clinton and Shewman, who apparently had press releases in hand telling us that Dubai World was "buying 6 ports” no, wrong they are going to operate various port operations under contract? The Left power grab and incited unions trying to make waves, elections must be coming up and someone is trying to look as if they are lead front-runners on the War on Terror over the Republican Party. This is all purely politics. Consider this in 2006.

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