Comments by "bighand69" (@bighands69) on "John Stossel" channel.

  1. +William Hammann Why would he need legal council at an open council meeting?
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  2. Many of them have been brainwashed and are now probably several generations into the liberal way of socialism without actually knowing they are in a socialism system that keeps them down.
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  3. +Kaloyan Velev That makes no sense at all.
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  4. Has absolutely nothing to do with the Jones act. Open up US water ways and it will in a very short period of time be dominated by Chinese vessels. Is that really what Americans want? What really needs to be looked at is why are US ships not being developed like they were 60 years ago. Even though US trade is dominated by internal trade. The answer is probably that everyday manufacturing was outsourced at a certain level so that those goods are now coming into super ports on both coasts.
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  5. +Miri M Pure nonsense. You clearly do not like them so you just makes stuff up to suit your own end.
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  6. It is not just unions. The Jones act protects US water ways from being dominated by foreign markets such as China. The Jones act has features that are built in that restrict the market and are not good but it also has features that ensure the US water ways do not get dominated by foreign powers. Could the Jones act be reformed probably but good luck trying to do that.
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  7. +Joshua Wilson You clearly don't understand what this report was about. Many native American tribes are trapped in welfare state enclaves. The democratic party that introduced most of these programs in the 1940, 50s and 60s were raging racists. They were the very party that voted against the civil rights act but we are suppose to believe that they introduced welfare that has destroyed black communities and Native American communities. You yourself may not actually see any money which is really what happens in welfare states. The poor simply are left to rot in welfare states. Jobs are very hard to comeby because there is no capitalism present.
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  8. +Austin Morris Too many people are associating the past with their present condition. They are stuck in a welfare state and do not know how to get out.
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  9. +Kathy Brown Saying people are not Native American because you do not agree with them is not exactly a good thing to do. If Native Americans stood up in political unison and demanded that the government give them the land it would happen. Just sitting around allowing the democratic party to dictate for you is not going to work.
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  10. +avro549B I knew a doctor who worked with in natives in Canada who told me that government programs have destroyed them. They have become trapped and are scared to leave the government reservations that are really just welfare state enclaves.
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  11. I would say she gets a nice salary for what she does.
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  12. If Foreign vessels were to be allowed free access you could imagine US water ways behind dominated by Chinese vessels. The sorts of vessels that are so rusty, corroded and full of toxic materials that the main waterways in the US would have a red color to them.
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  13. NAFTA prohibits goods from entering Canada and then just being transported to the US. Is there a black market well the answer to that is most certainly but that applies to anything really.
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  14. The reason why America got so wealthy is because it used capitalism. Native American tribes need to do the same thing. Welfare states do not work they just make the poor poorer and never allows them to climb the wealth ladder.
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  15. If it was not for the Jones act US waterways would be dominated by Chinese vessels. Does anybody really want that? People just do not look at the bigger picture. Right now nearly 90% of US trade is internal if the Jones act was lifted the US would be exposed to both German, Chinese and Russian trade and that would not be a good thing.
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  16. Electric cars right now are a luxury product.
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  17. Without the Jones act the US right now would be exposed to Chinese merchant vessels that would be dumping unsanctioned products on the US market and do you think anybody would be examining that. To open the Jones act water way controls would be to open the US market up but with that there are enormous risks and with WW3 around the corner it would be even greater.
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  18. That is complete and utter nonsense. What you call crazy prices are actually proper market prices not slave labour products made in a authoritarian communist state. It used to be that work tools would take a weeks wages to a months wages to acquire. Now those tools can be bought at a fraction of a weeks wages but they are plastic junk made by childrens hands in slave camps.
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  19. That is not the problem if the Jones act that is the problem if the states having poor planning and management. Complaining about the restrictions put on foreign vessels in US water ways is not going to change that. The alternative is unrestricted water way access that ends up being dominated by cheap Chinese vessels that flood the water ways with toxic waste. While getting rid of the Jones act would do wonders for trade in the US it would bring so much problems that it would cost far more than the trade is worth. Right now US economic trade is dominated by internal trade if the Jones act was removed it would be a boom for trade but imagine getting exposed to Russia, China and Germany right now.
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  20. Another factor is that if there was no Jones act right now US waterways would be dominated by Chinese vessels. And that would enable the Chinese to navigate those waterways and to get good intelligence from those water ways.
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  21. Opening up US water ways to cruise ships is hardly worth it comparing what it would do to them. Right now the waterways can be maintained for about 3 billion per year. Open them up to Cruise ships and general foreign based vessels and that cost will go through the roof and on top of that US waterways would be dominated by Chinese vessels. People are not looking at the bigger picture on this issue.
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  22.  @Booger414  Chinese cargo ships do not get exemption from the Jones act. If the Jones at was to be disbanded that would mean that Chinese ships of various purposes would dominate US waterways.
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  23. +Archangle 4 Truth Did you even watch the report. I think you need to watch it again.
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  24. What do any of you expect. Welfare states have been failing poor people for centuries. Did you think it was all of a sudden was going to work with Native Americans. These programs have also failed many white people as well. There are whole regions of white people in America that are just as poor and just as trapped with welfare.
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  25. Socialism is disgusting. Those Native Americans are being controlled by the politics of socialists who then pretend they helping. You would really wonder about the agenda of those that are pushing this.
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  26. Puerto Rico is a territory and not a state so unless you want to petition your self to be a state the Jones act is not the limiting factor. The Jones act did very little in terms of the post disaster relief either from a good or bad point of view.
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  27. How you could even compare Vietnam that was about stopping the spread of communism with that of the US government using welfare that then trapps poor people is really disgusting.
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  28. They do not make peoples lives worse. You can whine all you want but poor planning is no excuse of the Jones act being in place. DO you want US waterways dominated by foreign powers?
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  29. His legal council sits in an open council session?
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  30.  @paulinotou  It has nothing to do with the Jones act. Guam is not a state and is a territory so even if the Jones act was to be abolished tomorrow it would make no difference. Guam would not have an international port it would still need clearance from the US government. Either a new clearance system would be needed for Guam with a new port facility or goods would need to be cleared via another US port. The only solution for this is for the territory of Guam to seek state status which is a long arduous process. People complaining about the Jones act do not understand the real protection it gives to Americans.
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  31. Organisation? They are free people and do not need an "Organisation". They turned their back on the government a long time ago. If other Native could only do the same thing.
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  32. +pisse3000 You are missing the point. Those that did not get special government programs did not get trapped. They had the ability to go and be their own masters. Those that took the help got trapped into generations of poverty.
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  33. Most people proposing getting rid of the Jones act are either clueless about it or are foreign activists with an agenda.
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  34.  @ShaggyRogers1  I never said it prevented the good. What it does is to ensure that good entering into Canada and are then transported to the US are still classified as an import outside of NAFTA. Goods cannot be imported into Canada and then sent to the US as if they are a Canadian good.
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