Your longshoremen also buy cars, and shop at malls and buy houses, and go to grocery stores.

So even if they are getting paid, they will also be impacted by the lack of available product in the marketplace.

Meanwhile, California is like “just ship it here!” It will be more expensive to get stuff to the east coast, but it can get there. Long Beach and LA are the busiest and biggest shipping ports in the nation. And they aren’t at capacity yet.