Occupy Oakland damages itself more than ports

[LooseWilly]

48. You really believe no one was impacted a bit except the longshoremen?

You think a day's closure doesn't back up the unloading of the cargo? You think that, 2 weeks before Christmas, there isn't an ass-load of crap on those docks destined for distribution centers and retail loading docks not only along the entire length of the West Coast but also throughout major portions of the Midwest?

Where do you think the Advent Calendars in your local Target or Walmart or whatever-retail-behemoth you shop at come from? They come through the f-ing ports.

Santa gets his shit shipped in from China and India by sea, my friend... and if ports close for a week then that threatens the sales figures at retail stores, which threatens corporate quarterly earnings reports, which threatens stock prices, which threatens the jobs of the executives and the dividends of the big boys and the money market managers alike, which then threatens those corporations with the possibility of being seen as weak— and vulnerable to a buyout followed by a "streamlining" of management as the company is re-structured in order to "return it to profitability" (or just torn apart and sold piece by piece).

You go ahead and keep telling yourself that the shipping lines and their customers weren't impacted a bit... because the ripples stretch out beyond your personal line of sight— you're about as right as an ostrich is that it can't be seen when it sticks its head in the sand.