video link added..

 

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/us-bridges-roads-built-chinese-firms-14594513

US politics at work. Vote Ron Paul and put an end to this.

So the labor unions are protesting this and yet they support Obama and the Democratic Party?

wtf isnt unemployment at record levels how competant are a people who still use lead paint for toys and how about that bad milk by product that was used to make dog food and killed a million dogs a few years back Im not sure I want them to build bird houses

wtf isnt unemployment at record levels how competant are a people who still use lead paint for toys and how about that bad milk by product that was used to make dog food and killed a million dogs a few years back Im not sure I want them to build bird houses

 

Forget the dogs... what about how one of their companies used melamine in baby formula and poisoned countless babies around their country...

 

I'd like to know which bridges they're building, as if they are anywhere near the quality of the crap quality products that come from China, I'd be scared to drive on them.

US politics at work. Vote Ron Paul and put an end to this.

 

Amen to that, brother!

I believe it has to do with what my people call "mordidas." In English, it refers to transactions involving politicians, large sums of (our) money, and the underside of a table.

Hey, they built the railroads, except they were immigrants at that time...

It's funny,, obama was just on the TV yesterday or the day before talking about how he was "trying" to bring more jobs back to the US.

Yeah, not confidence inspiring:

 

 

http://www.weirdasianews.com/2010/02/05/shanghai-wonderbridge-trash-collapses/

 

In an absurd twist of fate and a rather distinct and unusual statement on the need to recycle, residents of Shanghai got the surprise of their life when earlier this month a major new bridge collapsed, revealing its components to be mostly rubbish and not concrete!

 

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Subsequent inquiry revealed the latter to be the case. Styrofoam, bags of garbage, scrap wood and plastic waste were used as construction materials in the structure.

 

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Our country is being sold off for short term gains and savings, peice by peice.

Our country is being sold off for short term gains and savings, peice by peice.

 

There will not be any savings when the lawsuits start and we have to rebuild it correctly.

Bunch of bs, shortage of welders? Then train some.

 

See also: California high speed rail to nowhere

Old news and a continually sad sobering statement about America. They (we) will chose the cheapest, easiest way out (and American's respond by always demanding to buy cheap.) California was giddy over how much money they saved. So much for Mr. Shovel-Ready and his infrastructure projects.

 

I wonder how Alexander Hamilton, our Secretary of Treasury, and founder of early economic policies, would feel knowing the bridge named for him in New York was being rebuilt overseen by an engineering firm from Beijing?

 

The Martin Luther King Memorial monument recently installed in Washington D.C. is Chinese made. We couldn't find one Afro-American sculptor in America to make it from granite pulled from U.S. soil? The Chinese sculptor, Lei Yixin, had previously made two sculptures of Mao Tse-tung.

 

Americans lost pride in doing some of the very simple things that made us a great nation.

Parker, it's not that Americans (real Americans) have lost pride, it's that the gov't has sold us out.

Bunch of bs, shortage of welders? Then train some.

 

See also: California high speed rail to nowhere

 

California?

 

How about our own tunnel to nowhere?

Parker, it's not that Americans (real Americans) have lost pride, it's that the gov't has sold us out.

Yeah, maybe I meant to phrase that differently. It seems a lot of American's are happy to accept sub-standard products and sub-standard services. It seems to go hand in hand with our sub-standard politicians. In this "throw-away" world, it fits the new generation.

 

Big business and politicians have been selling out the American worker for decades. I listen to this new group of politicians vying for the GOP nod promising things for America, and listen to the present nincompoop in office promising things for America; and it's all the same BS all over. Disheartening to say the least.

 

California high speed rail to nowhere

Yes, I've been to California often. Their rail system is running joke amongst commuters. Everyone there starts out their workday at the office beginning with a 15 minute conversation describing in horror their morning commute. Or, a recap of the prior night's evening commute home!