Truth on the Jones Act 09/28/2017

After much investigation today, I learned;
 

The Jones Act does not prevent ships from foreign countries to enter Puerto Rico. It prevents foreign ships from taking supplies from American Ports to Puerto Rico. If Mexico sent a ship to Puerto Rico, it could do so.
 

Where people are saying the Jones Act is "strangling" Puerto Rico is that there are ships delivering goods in American ports right now that want to haul supplies to Puerto Rico and they cannot because they are a foreign ship and cannot ship from one American port to another. An American ship has to do that.
 

They say there are a ton of supplies sitting in San Juan right now, but that there is a large shortage of truck drivers to distribute the goods. The Jones Act doesn't affect truck drivers in Puerto Rico.
 

As soon as the governor of Puerto Rico asked for the Jones Act to be suspended, Trump did it. Before that, many people told Trump that Puerto Rico was getting plenty of supplies but where the problem lay was in distribution.
 

Regarding the Jones Act for Florida and Texas, hell if I know other than a couple of news articles that I read said that the push for that suspension came from politicians in those states, but that Puerto Rico has little representation in our government.
 

Blame politics. All parties are guilty of it.

 

Socialism or Capitalism? The NFL Decides......

Imagine if you had someone mow your lawn and they left one wide strip in protest of what police were doing to black people.

Imagine that you ordered breakfast somewhere and they gave you eggs sunny-side-up instead of scrambled because they are protesting what they perceive police are doing to black people amounts to brutality.

Imagine if you went to the Emergency Room and the nurse decided to take a knee for one minute before doing their job. There you are, needing help, and your nurse is taking a knee, looking you in the eye, and telling you it’s in protest of one cause or another.

Imagine you had an employee of any sort, and they start doing things against the rules because they are protesting something totally unrelated to what it is that you are doing. Would you not have the right to fire them? Do they have a right to protest on your time, when you are paying them to do a job? Are they entitled to have you pay for their protest?

What if your employee, known for working for you and representing you, goes out and acts in a way that reflects badly upon you or your business. Do you not have a right to sever ties with that employee?

This is what is happening in the NFL and other sports right now. EMPLOYEES are protesting on company time, and are making statements while on their boss’s dime that may or may not hurt their employer’s position. Unless their employer specifically asks them to do these things, the employees have no right to protest on company time.

Socialism teaches that people have a right to work regardless of the position of their employer. Capitalism says that the boss is always right.

Which side are you on? Are you a socialist or a capitalist? What if you were the boss in this situation?