Hey Joe! Build this back better!

 

"Here is your chance Joe. To do something right, and which makes sense. I would wager if this type of solution was in your infrastructure bills, and you left out all the crip crap and BS tax increases, you might not need Manchin and Sinema. You would have dozens of Republicans voting in the positive."

Poor Joe Biden. Clueless. Eyeless in Gaza. A stranger in a strange land. With the trillions he wants to spend on infrastructure, nary a dime towards fixing the upcoming supply chain time bomb. And that time bomb is ticking. If Joe could skip one of his naps, and cast his gaze towards our sea ports, he would see what the problem is. And this problem Joe, is not going away.

Yesterday, Fox News did a segment on the current trucker shortage. The trucker shortage is not causing 100% of the constipation in our seaports, but it is a big part of it. Stuff is ordered from overseas, stuff overseas is made to fulfill those orders, than the finished goods are put in containers and loaded on container ships. Then those ships get to our ports, and just sit. Sit for sometimes weeks.

When is this problem going away? It isn't. Fox reported that currently our trucker shortage is somewhere between 80,000 and 100,000 drivers. By 2028, it is estimated to be 160,000 drivers short. Even if we got rid of all our globalization trade, we would still have a big problem. Short of accelerating the technology to have autonomous (Al) trucks on the road, this will be a problem without a solution.

Of all the crap which has been stuck in these two huge infrastructure bills, there is very little to fix the real problems we have in this country. I mean, like almost nada. These bills remind me of the stimulus package Obama signed into law. Remember that one? With tons of "shovel ready" projects? Turns out there was very little "shovel ready" anything. There was however, quite a bit of "payback" crap, for Democrat law makers. All of that money could have totally fixed our electric grid, and some money left over.

Okay Joe. Wake up and pay attention. This is important. Since it is unlikely that we are going to find 160,000 new truck drivers by 2028 (a bit over 6 years away), we need to accelerate the technology to have a fleet of self driving trucks on the road. If we do not, our supply chain issues, are going to turn into chains (and millstones) around our necks. 

Here is your chance Joe. To do something right. To do something which makes sense. I would wager if this type of solution was in your infrastructure bills, and you left out all the crip crap and BS tax increases, you might not need Manchin and Sinema. You would have dozens of Republicans voting in the positive. But I shouldn't have to tell you this Slo Joe. You did however, promise to be a centrist. This would be a centrist type of thing to do.