“California officials contend the U.S. does not have the manufacturing capacity or the workforce to build such a project on its own.”
“Critics say the decision to outsource the span — the central tower and the two 1,500 foot steel road decks were fabricated in a specially-built factory in China and shipped to San Francisco Bay — was a missed opportunity to create thousands of American manufacturing jobs.”
“The Bay Bridge: 100% foreign steel,” proclaim billboards along the freeways approaching the bridge. To be accurate, the suspension span of the bridge is only about 80 percent foreign steel according to the California Department of Transportation (also known as CalTrans), and the entire eastern span, from Yerba Buena Island to Oakland, is about 20 percent foreign.”
Maybe Panetta ought to bring back those carriers from the edge of China and station them closer to the US. If they ever sink one we’ll have to ask them to build another.
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Bethlehem Steel "13-week vacations for senior workers and United Nations Day, Oct. 24, as a paid holiday."
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The rest of the story
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Out of context? Pretty much stands alone in my opinion. n/t
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Well, that's kinda the definition of "out of context", isn't it? n/t
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I'm still stuck on this.
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Really?
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Just a fly in the ointment then. n/t
- PS. It was in the context of US steel competing with Chinese labor. n/t
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Just a fly in the ointment then. n/t
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Really?
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I would say something taken out of context loses definition. Not the case here. n/t
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I'm still stuck on this.
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Well, that's kinda the definition of "out of context", isn't it? n/t
- There's a lot more article beyond that point.
- And another part. The US doesn't have anyone that could do it.
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Out of context? Pretty much stands alone in my opinion. n/t
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The rest of the story
- "Bay Area leaders mandated the new bridge be “iconic” in its design. "