Non-Americans Are Running America’s Ports
Bush Threatens Veto Against Bid To Stop Port Deal
President Bush yesterday strongly defended an Arab company’s attempt to take over the operation of seaports in Baltimore and five other cities, threatening a veto if Congress tries to kill a deal his administration has blessed.
Here’s my problem with this deal: It’s got nothing to do with it being an Arab-run company. I’d object to it if it were a Swedish-run company. I just think government contracts for running ports and such ought to be given to US-based companies. I mean…duh!…don’t we want to keep all that money here in the US? Isn’t the government supposed to be, above all, protecting the interests of US citizens?
The company that’s currently running the ports is English. It’s been sold to a UAE-based company. Fine, I don’t care about that. The English company shouldn’t have been running OUR ports to begin with.
“I want those who are questioning it to step up and explain why all of a sudden a Middle Eastern company is held to a different standard than a [British] company,” Bush told reporters.
Well, gee whiz George! Maybe YOU can explain why US citizens of Arab descent are held to a different standard than citizens of British descent?? People applying the double-standard are just following the Bush administration’s lead.
Why are we hiring foreign companies to run our seaports to begin with?? THAT’s the real question!
Posted by RebeccaHartong on February 22, 2006 under Uncategorized
We do run our own ports. We don’t own them. The British don’t run the ports now; we do. US law, US employees.
Well, then… how crazy is it that we don’t OWN our own ports??