New San Fran Bay Bridge- Made in China

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/busin ... f=business

Sigh....
I guess its not just cheap junk at walmarts, now its big stuff too like bridge construction.

At a sprawling manufacturing complex here, hundreds of Chinese laborers are now completing work on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.

Next month, the last four of more than two dozen giant steel modules — each with a roadbed segment about half the size of a football field — will be loaded onto a huge ship and transported 6,500 miles to Oakland. There, they will be assembled to fit into the eastern span of the new Bay Bridge.

Probably made from re-cycled, melted down, old rusty scooters. Hope it holds up!

If you built it here, you would have to pay all those union members.

Actually, it is going to be assembled here - it comes in sections. I imagine they are sending instructions in Chinese on how to put it together, and which side is up!

Must have been one of those "shovel ready" projects.

Stupid way to spend our money. ALL government spending should be required to use American products and workers only.

But it's very easy to assemble. Needs no rivits. Slide one girder in left side, other girder in right side. Locked tight!

chickaree wrote: Stupid way to spend our money. ALL government spending should be required to use American products and workers only.

agreed

Too bad the unions made that almost impossible.

I find it pretty sad that some conservatives think American workers should be paid low wages just so we can have cheap American goods. Sure....pay them what a Chinese or Indian worker makes....just don't pay any attention to how they will have to live...this would help with illegal immigration too...why sneak onto the. US if the wages here are the same as Mexico?

The Chinese built our western railroads, too.

WayneH wrote: The Chinese built our western railroads, too.

Not entirely true, the Chinese did supply a good portion of the labor, but the materials and engineering was entirely US produced.

archer wrote: I find it pretty sad that some conservatives think American workers should be paid low wages just so we can have cheap American goods. Sure....pay them what a Chinese or Indian worker makes....just don't pay any attention to how they will have to live...this would help with illegal immigration too...why sneak onto the. US if the wages here are the same as Mexico?

Workers should be paid decent wages. One of the reasons the Chinese have taken over steel production is they don’t have the same enviromental regulations the US Steel industry faced, Level that field and see how much steel production comes back to the US.