{"id":59873,"date":"2021-10-13T18:03:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T23:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59873"},"modified":"2021-10-13T18:03:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T23:03:38","slug":"now-a-u-s-government-official-is-telling-us-that-the-supply-chain-nightmares-could-potentially-last-for-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59873","title":{"rendered":"Now A U.S. Government Official Is Telling Us That The Supply Chain Nightmares Could Potentially Last For Years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Now A U.S. Government Official Is Telling Us That The Supply Chain Nightmares Could Potentially Last For Years<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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\"\"<\/a>The truth is starting to come out, and a lot of people aren\u2019t going to like it.\u00a0 When the supply chain problems and the shortages began, government officials repeatedly assured us that they would just be temporary, and most of us believed them.\u00a0 But now it has become clear that they aren\u2019t going to be temporary at all.\u00a0 In fact, during\u00a0a recent interview<\/a>\u00a0with Bloomberg, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg admitted that some of the supply chain problems that we are currently facing could last for \u201cyears and years\u201d.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know about you, but to me \u201cyears and years\u201d sounds like a really long time.<\/p>\n

Of course that is not the only time that Buttigieg has made such a claim.\u00a0 During another recent interview, he used the words\u00a0\u201clong term\u201d<\/a>\u00a0to describe what we are facing\u2026<\/p>\n

Buttigieg has said in recent interviews that \u201cit\u2019s an incredibly complicated situation,\u201d but the government is holding virtual \u201croundtables\u201d with port operators, labor unions and private companies. Nevertheless, he told MSNBC last Thursday, the \u201cchallenges\u201d will continue, not only \u201cgoing into the next year or two, but going into the long term.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Isn\u2019t it remarkable how the outlook for our economic future has changed so dramatically in just a matter of a few months?<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, we were told that we would soon be entering a new golden era of prosperity.<\/p>\n

But now inflation and shortages are causing chaos everywhere we look.<\/p>\n

Earlier today, I came across a Daily Mail article that boldly declared that\u00a0\u201cstores across America have empty shelves\u201d<\/a>\u00a0right now\u2026<\/p>\n

Stores across America have empty shelves thanks to a series in supply chain problems that are prolonging inflation and could stretch into the new year, with some retailers like Costco and Walmart limiting the amount of toilet paper in some stores.<\/p>\n

More than 60 cargo ships are waiting to dock in California, carrying hundreds of thousands of containers, and may be stuck for months in a traffic jam after arriving from China and Asia. Millions of dollars of American goods are still sitting in warehouses in China, awaiting shipment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In addition to the unprecedented backlogs that we are witnessing at our major ports, it has also become far, far more expensive to send products across the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n

Just check out\u00a0these numbers<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now A U.S. Government Official Is Telling Us That The Supply Chain Nightmares Could Potentially Last For Years The truth is starting to come out, and a lot of people aren\u2019t going to like it.\u00a0 When the supply chain problems and the shortages began, government officials repeatedly assured us that they would just be temporary, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7],"tags":[31961,31091,3237,7452,827],"class_list":["post-59873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-survival-2","tag-suppliesmichael-snyder","tag-supply-chain-disruptions","tag-supply-chains","tag-the-economic-collapse-blog","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59874,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59873\/revisions\/59874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}