I use sea freight all the time actually. It takes 9 weeks door to door. A little longer than I can afford to take for myself.
"Just Saying" taking a jab at me for flying is a little personal. I am cognizant of the fossil fuel required to lift my lard *** off the ground and an thankful that the airline has switched to more fuel efficient aircraft.
The 9 weeks of consuming food and no productivity on a freighter is also a bit of an issue. If it was more efficient, millions of Canadian, European and Australasian twenty somethings would be on ships instead of planes as they travel the globe learning what poor urban planning looks like. They would gladly spend a few weeks at sea to save 50 bucks.
In the USA I live 0.4 miles from work. I fill my car every three weeks and try to plan a list of things to do all along the same route.
In the Philippines I have a car that's run by a 2 liter turbo diesel. I haul a trailer if I need more capacity.
All our lights are LED in both countries. We have 16 watts (4x4watts) burning overnight as security lights in the Philippines.
We run a 1/2 HP AC in our bedroom from 6pm to 4am. Its thermostat is set at 78F. I don't consider myself a "green" person. I don't do "the natural" bologne. I love the concept of GMO. I love efficiency. I abhorr waste.
Oh and additionally, my immigrant self, immigrant wife and soon to be immigrant kids don't fit in your ideology of how America should position itself, but the tax dollars I generate in offshore income is appreciated by your government. My immigrant babies will have an excellent life with all the rights and liberties afforded by any American (save being president). And they will be cared for by an immigrant nanny.
One more.... Child restrictions in China did not see dead kids hanging from trees but millions of female babies did die of sudden infant death syndrome until the parents were blessed with a boy.
In thirty years China will be importing care givers to look after its aging population. It's already importing wives for the sons.
Do you lecture your nursing patients with such a degree of projection as when you launch on me? I have no problem with legal, self-supporting immigrants who work real jobs. I have a major problem with the dope gangs who sneaked over the border to the SF Bay Area.
A former neighbor was attacked by a gangster mommy for "disrespecting" her elementary school son by reporting the fact that he was extorting his classmates to the principal and to his mother who was outraged that she was interfering in her child's entrepreneurship.
The former neighbor has been declared totally disabled, in large part that despite the fact that she wound up hospitalized for a rather long time, the principal thought that they could do "restorative justice" wherein she would apologize for failing to respect the family's strong Mexican (gang) culture. The school district refused to consider uniformed security because they wanted the students to be "comfortable." Apparently being made uncomfortable while committing extortion or beating a teacher unconscious with a chair is not allowed in that particular school district.
I have spent much of my life surrounded by Latin culture in the Yakima Valley, northern New Mexico, and now California. I find it deeply disturbing when my *legal* immigrant neighbors find themselves forced to take out second mortgages so they can send their kids to private school to protect them from extortion or gang recruitment. It is really sad.
I find it horrendous, insulting, and racist when poverty, ignorance, and criminality are considered to be traits of Latin culture. The main reason that illegal immigration has been encouraged and subsidized by our politicians seems to be to break the private sector unions, especially the service and construction industry unions. Another important reason is to provide extremely cheap labor to corporations - with the American people paying for welfare and other programs to prevent the families of that cheap labor from starving to death or sleeping on the street.
Even some public school teachers who should stop and think about what they are saying have told little kids whose one parent is a Black, Asian, or White American and whose other parents are Latin American - Mexican, Guatemalan, Venezuelan, or Cuban - that they need to "pick a side", preferably "La Raza." I thought that demanding that people choose The Superior Race went out with Hitler.
I also find the left wing indoctrination insensitive. People who have had to flee Cuba, Venezuela, and other "enlightened" regimes do not need to be told how wonderful Che and Fidel were, nor that Chavez is the greatest man in Venezuelan history. Of course, the professional ethnic activists also try to suggest that only White Cubans and Venezuelans have ever wanted to leave - because they are too ignorant to know that Che and Fidel prevented Black Cubans to board the freedom flights.
Che and Fidel wanted to keep all of the Black people in Cuba to do the labor that they considered beneath White people. Che was so uncomfortable with Black and mixed race Cubans that he imported White Communists from Argentina to be given positions of authority in the Castro government. The CRT and professional activists insist on ignoring the fact that the longest serving political prisoner in Cuba is a Black man, and that a disproportionate percentage of political prisoners are Black.
