U.S. Builds Bridges with Cheap Chinese Labor

[Serpo]

How can they do this.........


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Vw80UKCBgzc#!http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Vw80UKCBgzc#!

[slowbell]

I'll make a post, and a statement on this.

My company was one of them lost on the bridge contract here in CA, in this film.

I'll tell you this. American's built the first bridge, back in the 1930's, using nothing but bolts, nuts, slide rules....it took American's 18 months.

Today, our bridge sections are built in China, shipped here, and assembled like legos....

10 years. We will have been working on this damn bridge.

Give me those American's with those slide rules again.

It's BS media propoganda that American's can't get the job done. We did, politics took it away from us.

[Cebu_4_2]

Seriously, is anyone on this forum the least bit surprised?

[Skirnir_]

Just because someone was employed in Ahmurrkuh does not entitle him to a similar position in perpetuity. Given the poor quality of Ahmurrkin goods, including food, I am more than happy to purchase those made overseas, and if bridges can be made in a manner that resembles importation from China, so much the better.

[hoarder]

Just because someone was employed in Ahmurrkuh does not entitle him to a similar position in perpetuity. Given the poor quality of Ahmurrkin goods, including food, I am more than happy to purchase those made overseas, and if bridges can be made in a manner that resembles importation from China, so much the better.You must be pretty young not to remember when Americans built their own bridges and everything else and built them well while the Chinese were living in tents. Perhaps you should re-read slowbells post.

The reason "American" goods are of poor construction is because foreigners (like the ones who issue dollars out of thin air) own the companies who produce them.

What seems to bypass people of your mindset is how things got from where they were to where they are today.

[Skirnir_]

The reason "American" goods are of poor construction is because foreigners (like the ones who issue dollars out of thin air) own the companies who produce them.

If poor quality is attributable to foreign ownership and assuming for the sake of argument you are correct, would not the foreign companies, also owned by foreigners, be producing equally poor if not worse products?

[hoarder]

If poor quality is attributable to foreign ownership and assuming for the sake of argument you are correct, would not the foreign companies, also owned by foreigners, be producing equally poor if not worse products?

Yes, both would be poor. There are three issues here, loss of jobs, foreign ownership and poor quality, none good for Americans.

[Skirnir_]

Yes, both would be poor. There are three issues here, loss of jobs, foreign ownership and poor quality, none good for Americans.

Yet plainly, foreign goods are superior, thus your attribution is bunk.

I see three issues too:

-regulation causing deadweight loss, preventing a reallocation of labour
-hindrance of the movement and deployment of capital
-a lack of competition, caused by said regulation

There is a fourth - what business does a regime have building bridges with stolen money?

[gunDriller]

great shot of a humongous thread cutting machine @ 1:53.

[mick silver]

we dont need jobs here . every thing is free to us now . people just need to get in line for the free stuff like food an homes an cars , phones and there nails done . the land of the free

[JDRock]

Yet plainly, foreign goods are superior, thus your attribution is bunk.

I see three issues too:

-regulation causing deadweight loss, preventing a reallocation of labour
-hindrance of the movement and deployment of capital
-a lack of competition, caused by said regulation

There is a fourth - what business does a regime have building bridges with stolen money?
hmmm EVERYTHING good from a foreign country is only good because the manufacturing process and know how was sold/stolen from us. ...

[hoarder]

Yet plainly, foreign goods are superior, thus your attribution is bunk.What foreign goods are superior? Japanese vehicles were superior for a while (using our technology globalists gave them), but the international globalist tribe took over those corporations and incorporated planned in obsolesence into their manufacturing and now they're just as bad as everything else.


I see three issues too:

-regulation causing deadweight loss, preventing a reallocation of labour
Domestic manufacturers had to comply when foreigners did not.
-hindrance of the movement and deployment of capital
-a lack of competition, caused by said regulation
Libertarian propaganda designed to manufacture our consent for world government.

There is a fourth - what business does a regime have building bridges with stolen money?That has nothing to do with borders, fiat is international.

[chad]

this bridge will begin to fall apart in less than 20 years. they will spike the materials with cheap pot metal, etc.

[MNeagle]

What foreign goods are superior? Japanese vehicles were superior for a while (using our technology globalists gave them), but the international globalist tribe took over those corporations and incorporated planned in obsolesence into their manufacturing and now they're just as bad as everything else. Domestic manufacturers had to comply when foreigners did not. Libertarian propaganda designed to manufacture our consent for world government.That has nothing to do with borders, fiat is international.

& Japan greatly helped by W. Edwards Deming (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming). I recall reading that the US manufacturing industry wasn't interested in his theories, & was welcomed by the Japanese plants. The offshoring had begun intellectually, and physically the U.S. machines were dismantled & shipped overseas as well.