Let me give you a real time problem with a Jones Act Waiver. There are many OSROs (spill contractors) who want to respond here in the states but cannot get the federally mandated insurance under the OPA 90 Act. So rather than BP paying the insurance as a cost of doing business for the contractors. What do we want to do? Waive the Jones Act and let in foreign corporations over US companies near shore and coastal.

Good Idea….eh?

“If the Jones Act is waived, would that waiver apply to US vessels as well as foreign vessels so that American or legally resident workers would lose the protection of the statute?” 

No the US Flagged vessel is still protected. This is basically a industry protection law. Unions, Mariners, Yards, Shipowners…..One last thing here counselor and what no one is really mentioning here. We are talking coastal trade.

Outside 3 miles all is fine….. What I would like to now from the peanut gallery here at NQ is why we need foreign assets coastal? Hell bring in the foreigns and get all US Flagged ships near shore and coastal. What is the big deal here besides bitching about Obama?

No consequences eh? No we have the act for the fuck of it!  Now your a Admiralty Lawyer too? You stupid fuck! Of course there is a legal consequence.

So hotshot…. tell me….

WHAT IS THE NEED TO WAIVE THE ACT NEAR SHORE AND COASTAL RIGHT NOW? Here are a couple of more questions for you shithead.

1. Numbers of ships requesting waivers and their capabilities?
2. What is the advantage of these ships over the US Flagged ones?
3. What special interest is asking for the waiver and what is their gain?

During Katrina and Rita is fact is that the benefits of waiving the act were small. Basically the only things that the waiver did and it was a short term waiver was getting badly needed fuel into southern ports a few days earlier.
Other than that there was little benefit. Out in the OCS we are using all flagged assets. That is where the main part of the spill still is.

And you a Licensed Captain? Of what? A barrel raft? Take that “boat” of yours and go sail it into the sunset.  Boat Captains got to love’em.  Shit… The difference between a boat and a ship? You can take a boat and put it onto a ship.

Now if the spill gets worse and more skimmers are needs near shore and coastal then maybe….. But that needs to be done judicially.

Otherwise this is a smoke issue….. Nothing more than a bloody political smoke issue…..

Do you live on a boat? I always thought it would be cool to live on a boat. I grew up on Long Island Sound, and while my family wasn’t into sailing, a lot my friends families were. I loved it.

As it turned out, my husband (who I didn’t meet until I was 30) also grew up on Long Island Sound. His family was seriously into sailing and took the family on vacations up and down the east coast. My husband hate hate hated it. He felt like an impressed sailor in the War of 1812.

There are people around here who live on boats for part of the year, but not as many as there used to be.

The vessels must be under US Flag and operated by US personnel. These mariners do not need to be only union members. But the ship must be built and flagged US.

Yes there can be a partial waiver. But then again what foreign marine assets are we talking about here? Why do we need them? Can some one tell me why we need foreign assets near shore or coastal?

Now out in the OCS no Jones Act applies so… You can have what ever flag you want out there. For example the Discover Deep Seas was built in Spain and flagged the Marshall Islands. The Horizon was built in South Korea and also flagged the Marshall Islands.

Now here is another boondoggle question. Of all of the flags of convenience countries on this planet. Why flag a ship or a MODU in the Marshall Islands? 

Anyone know?

Now lets do some real factual research and see who can win the “Captain Jack Sparrow Award For Brilliance” and answer a question that the MSM nor those I D I O T S in Congress have even thought of asking or investigating for that matter.

The whole lot of them are corrupt.  How are you going to get a corrupted congress to impeach their head mascot.  DUH!

But they have to present to you the picture, so that there is some credible disbelief.  There lies and illusions are comming to an end though.  They can no longer keep up the farce.

So to answer to question, Most people don’t.  I would say over 80% of americans know and can see the truth.  The news presents you a LIE and you have to believe it, cause you have no choice.  You can not possibly know what the other 30 million people in the nation are doing or thinking.  They know that.

After all if the corrupt and dimwitted pols weren’t in congress making laws all the time those asshats might actually have to do some real work.

So they make laws and then the government ignores them. A neat little shell game that doesn’t even have a pea.