123tim
11-14-2011, 07:25 PM
This is, in my opinion, an example (on a massive scale) of what we do each time we buy Chinese goods.....Pay a cheaper price because China has lower manufacturing, environmental, and working standards than we do.
"Deceitful Chinese bid for Oakland Bay Bridge hurts California"
http://www.americanmanufacturing.org/blog/deceitful-chinese-bid-oakland-bay-bridge-harms-california
Just when we thought that the saga of new made-in-China Oakland Bay Bridge couldn’t get any worse, we were proven wrong. New evidence suggests there were major flaws in the rationale for outsourcing the project to China—and estimates of the jobs this project is taking away from Americans and the pollution it’s contributing to the environment have added insult to injury in this discouraging tale.
Though the New York Times originally cited American suppliers’ inability to perform work on such a large scale structure as the main reason behind the state of California’s decision to outsource the project to China, according to Foreign Policy’s, Clyde Prestowitz, this was not actually the case. “It turns out that the issue wasn't one of capability but of scheduling,” reports Prestowitz. “U.S. fabricators had the capacity and the capability to do the work but argued that the project would take more time than the Chinese were proposing in their bid.
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"Deceitful Chinese bid for Oakland Bay Bridge hurts California"
http://www.americanmanufacturing.org/blog/deceitful-chinese-bid-oakland-bay-bridge-harms-california
Just when we thought that the saga of new made-in-China Oakland Bay Bridge couldn’t get any worse, we were proven wrong. New evidence suggests there were major flaws in the rationale for outsourcing the project to China—and estimates of the jobs this project is taking away from Americans and the pollution it’s contributing to the environment have added insult to injury in this discouraging tale.
Though the New York Times originally cited American suppliers’ inability to perform work on such a large scale structure as the main reason behind the state of California’s decision to outsource the project to China, according to Foreign Policy’s, Clyde Prestowitz, this was not actually the case. “It turns out that the issue wasn't one of capability but of scheduling,” reports Prestowitz. “U.S. fabricators had the capacity and the capability to do the work but argued that the project would take more time than the Chinese were proposing in their bid.
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