http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/04/12051816-sf-bay-bridge-may-have-been-lost-jobs-opportunity?lite
"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.
China builds special factory, has skilled workers the US can't match. For US job.
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- China builds special factory, has skilled workers the US can't match. For US job.
- Bethlehem Steel "13-week vacations for senior workers and United Nations Day, Oct. 24, as a paid holiday."
- "Bay Area leaders mandated the new bridge be “iconic” in its design. "