Supply Chain Optimization

Infrastructure In Disrepair— Fixing It Is Totally Broken

Infrastructure does need to be fixed. Unfortunately, a lot of things stand in the way. Take this example: BNSF wants to spend its own money to replace a 140-year-old bridge over the Missouri River. A special interest group has tied this up for five years, claiming that, despite a predecessor railway having been given the right of way over public land, because BNSF can’t produce the original deed to that right-of-way, the land should revert to the state. The courts should have the ability to punish these folks.

Unions have more problems:

  • AMZN (Amazon) is resuming a shipping service for external deliveries in direct competition with UPS (Teamsters) and FedEx (Unionized pilots)
  • Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is seeking to bring in 500 workers from Taiwan to get the delayed construction of its Phoenix plant back on track. Where are the union workers required by the Government subsidies?

 


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