so this is how obarry creates jobs... he never said it would be in the US where he creates them...


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.

The project is part of China’s continual move up the global economic value chain — from cheap toys to Apple iPads to commercial jetliners — as it aims to become the world’s civil engineer.

The assembly work in California, and the pouring of the concrete road surface, will be done by Americans. But construction of the bridge decks and the materials that went into them are a Made in China affair. California officials say the state saved hundreds of millions of dollars by turning to China.

“They’ve produced a pretty impressive bridge for us,” Tony Anziano, a program manager at the California Department of Transportation, said a few weeks ago. He was touring the 1.2-square-mile manufacturing site that the Chinese company created to do the bridge work. “Four years ago, there were just steel plates here and lots of orange groves.”

On the reputation of showcase projects like Beijing’s Olympic-size airport terminal and the mammoth hydroelectric Three Gorges Dam, Chinese companies have been hired to build copper mines in the Congo, high-speed rail lines in Brazil and huge apartment complexes in Saudi Arabia.

In New York City alone, Chinese companies have won contracts to help renovate the subway system, refurbish the Alexander Hamilton Bridge over the Harlem River and build a new Metro-North train platform near Yankee Stadium. As with the Bay Bridge, American union labor would carry out most of the work done on United States soil.

American steelworker unions have disparaged the Bay Bridge contract by accusing the state of California of sending good jobs overseas and settling for what they deride as poor-quality Chinese steel. Industry groups in the United States and other countries have raised questions about the safety and quality of Chinese workmanship on such projects. Indeed, China has had quality control problems ranging from tainted milk to poorly built schools.

But executives and officials who have awarded the various Chinese contracts say their audits have convinced them of the projects’ engineering integrity. And they note that with the full financial force of the Chinese government behind its infrastructure companies, the monumental scale of the work, and the prices bid, are hard for private industry elsewhere to beat.


more here

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Bridge-Comes-to-San-Francisco-nytimes-295493098.html?x=0

i guess people forgot the first 600 billion dollar stimulus pakage was for the rebuilding of new roads.... obama is a complete joke...

obama had nothing to do with the bridge contract
going to china, it was the decision of the
calif. dept. of transportation. bottom line
being the state of calif. is broke. the savings
will amount to half a billion dollars.
u.s. workers did not get the contract due
to the greed of the unions and union workers
demanding union wages for the same work.
did we not learn anything from having to
bail out the auto industry?

Well, we should have. We should have learned that these Free Trade Agreements are open invitations to ship every possible job to other sweat shop countries in the world.

that is kinda my point... while it is not directly obamas fault, i still blame him for dumping all that money out there and not doing anything to stop this kind of sillyness... bush too... sometimes i don't see any difference between the two...

and not to mention the Chinese contracts in Ney York also...

This guy needs to just go away. I cant wait for President Bachmann!

president "anyone else" is fine with me too.... but then again, i said that about bush too...damn

Bachmann is the best choice by far. Better then Multiple Choice Mitt and Looney Tunes Paul.

lol i watch "bruno" the other day, the gay satire from ali g, and ron paul was on there calling him a stupid queer... to funny

Can't argue with you about free trade agreements. What do you suppose is keeping the government from just withdrawing from all of them?

Ron Paul has no room to call someone stupid.

IDK, but my guess would be money, and not any of it mine...

Maybe after the next election China will take him because we will prove we don't want him.