Lying with statistics is usually very effective.
Unless there are actual reporters out there.
President Biden is touting his administration's handling of the supply chain crisis, claiming the situation is all but resolved. However, the bottleneck that helped bring the supply chain to a virtual standstill remains in place.
On Wednesday, Biden said the supply chain is in "very strong shape" ahead of the holiday season.
"It's not because of luck," Biden said. "We averted potential crisis by figuring out what needed to get fixed, and then we brought the people together to do the hard work of fixing it."...
OK. How many freighters are still in queue? Ah!! There's the game!!!
...Biden said Wednesday that, thanks to his administration's efforts to keep the ports open 24/7, the number of container ships waiting to unload has decreased by 40%.
Gene Seroka, executive director of the Port of Los Angeles, used that same figure on Tuesday....
Seroka's job depends on his lying, of course.
Let's look at the tape.
....Biden and Seroka are correct that the number of ships at anchor or loitering has decreased — but only for those vessels within 40 miles of the ports.
Overall, the logjam of cargo ships remains as severe as ever. The reason why is simple: Since last month, a new queuing system has encouraged and led many ships to move outside of the ports' 40-mile zone to a Safety and Air Quality Area (SAQA) that extends 150 miles to the west of the ports and 50 miles to the north and south....
The new system is one month old!! Just co-incidence, that timing, eh? Wasn't that when Biden* promised to flatten the curve or kill off the backlog or reduce the price of gasoline or solve the border crisis or whip inflation now......or whatever??
How many ships are where?
..."In mid-November, 86 container ships were floating around San Pedro Bay waiting for a berth," explained Steve Rattner, who served as auto-industry czar in the Obama administration. "Today, just two weeks later, that figure is down to 44."
The sharply reduced count of 44 ships anchored offshore includes only those ships waiting within the 40-mile zone as of midday Tuesday, according to data from the Marine Exchange of Southern California. American Shipper estimated that there were another 50 container ships waiting outside the SAQA, making for a total of 94 ships....
Is 94 larger than 86? (Yes, unless you're a graduate of Biden* schools, run by the AFT and NEA.)
Next week, Biden* will create another new SAQA extending to Hawaii.
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