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RE: Your later link to the Wash Post gives the lie to your very post!

Posted by Krav Maga (A) on October 18, 2021 at 03:39:13

In Reply to: Your later link to the Wash Post gives the lie to your very post! posted by tinear on October 17, 2021 at 06:42:34:

Not to worry. On June 08, 2021 the Biden-Harris Administration announced the establishment of a new Supply Chain Disruptions Task Force. The task force includes Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh. So, they've been on the case since early June.

From October 13, 2021 The Hill article "Amateur hour: Pete Buttigieg's inexperience exposed as supply chain breaks down":

"The Washington Post ominously breaks down the situation as well. "Ships wait off the California coast, unable to unload their cargo. Truckers are overworked and overwhelmed, often confronting logjams. Rail yards have also been clogged, with trains at one point backed up 25 miles outside a key Chicago facility," the publication reported on Sunday.

One major reason this is happening is a shortage of workers to get cargo off of these ships, and another shortage of truck drivers to transport them where they need to go. A worker shortage has been a common theme throughout the first 10 months of the Biden era, where no one in the administration - including Labor Secretary Marty Walsh - has any good answers as to why it is happening.

Biden's labor secretary Marty Walsh was stumped on #AxiosOnHBO as to why eligible workers aren't filling up available jobs: "I don't think there is an answer." (per Axios Twitter)

So, to what level of accountability are the media holding the Transportation secretary?

A quick Google check of "Pete Buttigieg," when using the "News" search option, reveals the following headlines in this exact order as of Monday afternoon.

"Pete Buttigieg Calls Parenting Twins 'Most Demanding Thing': 'Yet I Catch Myself Grinning Half the Time' " - People Magazine

"Pete Buttigieg calls parenting twins 'the most demanding thing I think I've ever done' " - USA Today, under the "Celebrities" section

"Buttigieg quiet on growing port congestion as shipping concerns build ahead of holidays" - Fox News

"Buttigieg on parenthood: 'Most demanding thing' I've ever done" - NBC News

"Pete Buttigieg Dishes on His Future As a Presidential Candidate" - Business Insider

As you can see, almost all outlets are focusing on Buttigieg's foray into fatherhood and not on the one major issue he's in charge of fixing, or at least getting under some semblance of control, as cargo ships continue to pile up off the coast of America's port cities.

Buttigieg was finally asked about this issue in an interview with Bloomberg News last week, during which he warned that the "challenges" will continue, possibly for years, before pitching President Biden's stalled $3.5 infrastructure plan, which surely will make everything all better.

"These challenges are definitely going to continue in the months and years ahead," Buttigieg said. "This is one more reason why we do need to deliver this infrastructure package, so that we can have a more resilient, flexible physical infrastructure to support our supply chain in this country."

But let's say the Biden infrastructure plan - which contains a majority of items that the administration calls "human infrastructure," to the tune of trillions of dollars of additional spending while core inflation is already at a 30-year high - doesn't pass. What is Buttigieg doing *right now* to address the crisis?

"The White House set up a task force," he explained to MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Oct. 7. "Look, this is obviously an incredibly complicated situation that we're talking about. We're talking about global supply chains. And it's mostly private-sector systems. But we have a big role to play, and that's why we've been convening all of the different players ... held roundtables, bringing together everyone connected to the ports."

The Washington-speak is impossible to ignore: We've "set up a task force," we've "held roundtables." ..."

So, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's solution is to pass President Biden's infrastructure plan. And wait, "possibly for years". LOL

I proclaim Mayor Pete the "King of Platitudes"! If only platitudes were solutions.

Addendum: I forgot to mention that Secretary Buttigieg was on paternity leave for 2 months, not that it would have made any difference, IMO.

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Reflect what you are" - Lou Reed

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• https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/576478-amateur-hour-   (Open in New Window)

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