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Panicking, they say, never helps anything.
That makes sense, but ask anybody who is in the business of resilience and they will tell you that the best way to avoid panic is to be prepared.
America is not prepared for what is coming if the dockworkers’ strike lasts very long. Watch this video to the end.
This is the President of the dock workers from Maine to Texas. They go on strike today, first time since 1977. This stops all shipping from coming ashore on the entire eastern seaboard all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico. I suggest you stock up TODAY on what you might need. pic.twitter.com/iN1MsCveDA— John Rich???????? (@johnrich) October 1, 2024
Anybody who lived through 2020, 2021, and 2022 (which I presume was all of my readers, unless something weird is happening in the space-time continuum) knows what supply chain disruptions can do to an economy. And the disturbances to The Force that we lived through will be nothing compared to what a complete shutdown of our East Coast and Gulf Coast ports will do to the economy.
If you want a description of the dispute, this isn’t the right article. Others are covering the negotiations much better than I can. Beege wrote about the topic last week, and you can find a lot of coverage out there if you look.
