Leftist Policies Are Breaking the Supply Chain, by Michael Swartz

When politicians and bureaucrats launched 15 days to stop the spread 21 months ago, we began to deal with shortages and empty store shelves. Running out of toilet paper and cleaning supplies was a significant but understandable headache at a time when cleanliness was truly next to godliness, but when the lumber for that deck you wanted to build couldn’t be found or the new SUV you wanted to buy wasn’t on the dealer’s lot because of a computer chip shortage, well, that’s when these minor nuisances became drains on the overall economy.

And the solution seems relatively simple, particularly knowing over 100 massive ships teeming with cargo boxed up in shipping containers ready for transfer to trucks are waiting, anchored outside the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, California. One imagines a line of trucks sitting along the dockside ready to accept a shipping container for delivery right to your local store, but, alas, in this era of government and labor regulations it doesn’t quite work that way. …