Diane Sawyer reporting on U.S. bridge projects going to the Chinese.... NOT Americans.
The bridges are right here in the U.S. and yet Obama has approved for Chinese contractors to come in and do the work. What about jobs for Americans??? Watch this video. It doesn't take long to view.
This one should be tough for the supporters of the current regime to swallow....AND it comes from ABC NEWS U.S.A. Bridges and Roads Being Built by Chinese Firms Shocking to say the least!
This video is a jaw-dropper that will make you sick. (It was also shocking that ABC was actually reporting this story.)
The lead-in with Obama promising jobs in the U.S. by improving our infrastructure is so typical of all his promises!
Might as well. We'll be part of China shortly... just as soon as they deny our credit card.
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I've been seeing a lot of ambivalence in the left-wing media about Obama. The NYT, Time, ABCCCBSMSNBC, the leftie web sites, night-time TV talk hosts, all endorse him and take pot-shots at him off to the side.
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That's nothing new. Air Products had a huge Oxygen Reduction plant built in England back in the early '80s. Brought over in several sections, then floated up to Ohio on the river, and hauled to South Middletown on some 40 axle, 4,000 HP crawlers.
So, did you watch the video? (I didn't -- it came up too slow, I gave up on it).
Here's what factcheck.org has to say:
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If you're too impatient, the summary is that states rejected using federal funds specifically so they could go Chinese. Moreover, what's getting done in China is just the parts of the work that can be prefabbed and shipped here: all the work done in the US will be done by US workers.
If we want to continue discouraging kids to get into blue-collar jobs here, then it's going to come down to having them all done by foreign nationals. This isn't a problem that's uniquely Obama or Romney: both sides seem to think that everyone in the US should be working white- collar jobs. The only difference is that Democrats think we should all be working for the government, and Republicans think we should all be financiers (or at least that _they_ should all be financiers). If we breed all the blue-collarness out of ourselves, then _of course_ we'll have to invite _someone_ in to do all of the real work.
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Didn't California award most of the high speed rail contracts to the Chines e? I really don't see a problem with any of this, the work should go to the people most capable of completing the job. The nationalists here might rec all the US turned to Chinese labor to build the transcontinental railroads because the homebrew laborers here were worthless drunken thieving riffraff , mostly Irish. The same is happening now. Why in hell would anyone want to subsidize a bunch of shiftless thieving American riffraff who think they'r e entitled to the work simply because of an accident of birth? Someone need s to get a clue that one of the most essential ingredients to our prosperit y is competition.
So, how did Obama get blamed for the decisions by state agencies and for state projects that, in at least one case, didn?t even use federal funds? The answer is a textbook lesson in how information gets distorted when emails go viral.
We looked at the nearly 100 emails we received on this subject and found that Obama wasn?t mentioned at all in the first few emails. Typical of the emails we received shortly after the ABC News report aired was this one from Oct. 11, 2011: ?I just got an email regarding Diane Sawyer on ABC TV stating that U. S. Bridges and roads are being built by Chinese firms when the jobs should have gone to Americans. Could this possible be true??
The answer: Yes, it?s true. End of story, right? Wrong.
Days later, emails started to appear in our inbox that claimed ABC News reported that Chinese firm were receiving stimulus funds to build U.S. bridges ? even though the broadcast news story didn?t mention stimulus funds at all. (The report did include a clip of Obama delivering a speech on the need to rebuild America?s bridges and put Americans to work, but said nothing about the president?s $830 billion stimulus bill.) Still, we received emails such as this one on Nov. 4, 2011, that included this erroneous claim language: ?Stimulus money meant to create U.S. jobs went to Chinese firms. Unbelievable?.?
It didn?t take long for Obama to be blamed. That same day ? Nov. 4, 2011 ? we received an email that made this leap to Obama: ?SOME CHINESE COMPANIES WHO ARE BUILDING ?OUR? BRIDGES. (3000 JOBS LOST TO THE CHINESE FIRM)?..AND NOW OBAMA WANTS ?MORE STIMULUS MONEY??..THIS IS NUTS ! ! ! If this doesn?t make you furious nothing will?.?
This year, Obama?s name started to surface in the subject line of such critical emails ? raising the attack on the president to yet another level and perhaps ensuring the email will be even more widely circulated. Since Jan. 17, we have gotten more than a dozen emails with the subject line, ?ABC News on Obama/USA Infrastructure,? often preceded with the word ?SHOCKING? in all caps.
The emails increasingly contain harsh language about the president. Since Jan. 11, 23 emails carried this added bit of Obama-bashing: ?I pray all the unemployed see this and cast their votes accordingly in
2012!? One of those emails ? a more recent one from Feb. 8 ? contained this additional line: ?Tell me again how Obama?s looking out for blue collar guys. He cancels pipelines, and lets Chinese contractors build our bridges??
And so it goes, on and on. All from a news report that blamed state officials ? not Obama ? for spending taxpayer money on Chinese firms to build U.S. bridges.
Do you have any idea at all of what kind of people America has working in t hese jobs? They're just looking for seed money to support their substance a buse habits. So here's the deal: let the scum rot on unemployment. And nobo dy gives a damn about the claims American companies may make, they are prov en liars.
Yeah, yeah, yeah- how about the semi-retarded shipyard worker who set the n uclear sub at Bath on fire just so he could go home early? Break out the ch eckbook on that one because the repair is estimated to be $400M. That incid ent is just the tip of the iceberg.
really don't see a problem with any of this, the work should go to the people most capable of completing the job
There was a news report about trains in the US hitting an amazing
110mph, maybe to go into service in 2015.
That's only about 175km/h.
300+ km/h trains are quite ordinary in China- I've done GZ to Changsha and back, as well as the shorter Guangshen run. Fare for the 30 minute trip GZ-SZ run is Y75-100 (about $12-16, depending on class). Trains (every 30-60 minutes, IIRC) were full, though the big modern airport-like stations are way under capacity. They're connected with extensive subway systems at either end so you can get from various points in one 10m+ city to another 10m+ city for another couple dollars. With any luck it will keep most of them from choking to death on the exhaust fumes of millions of new cars.
these jobs? They're just looking for seed money to support their substance abuse habits. So here's the deal: let the scum rot on unemployment. And nobody gives a damn about the claims American companies may make, they are proven liars.
i see you still judge everyone else by your own low standards.
Odd. I just finished watching an excellent and inspiring documentary in our local teevee here in this side of the world. The main message is that the US industry prospers and the USA is still clearly the #1 industrial power in the world.
Think so? Just because we owe them a couple of trillion dollars?
Eventually, but not quite yet.
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