The state of California bought its new bridge for the Oakland Bay Bridge from China. It was cheaper to send 250 inspectors to live at the Chinese plant and ship the fucking bridge spans across an ocean than to buy it in this country.
Nice to know that Federal and California taxpayers are paying to employ Chinese bridge makers. The dollars that would have gone to American companies for bridge parts would have been used to buy supplies from other American companies. Those companies would have employed American workers, who then would have banked and spent their pay in their local communities. A dollar paid for the bridge probably would have generated five times that much in economic activity in this country.
But the dollar paid to a Chinese company will generate economic activity in China, which will be of little benefit to us.
So here is a mighty "fuck you" to the former governator and to CalTrans. May you all die in a fire.
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And as I understand it, given the total cost of the bridge they didn't save that much anyway. The figures I heard were 400 mil out of 7.2 billion.
Your country isn't the only one that puts Ass Clowns in charge. Our DisHonourable Prime Minister Paul Martin owned a shipping line and a shipbuilding business and laid us ship builders off and had seven or so ships built in China. This was while he was the leader of our country no less. Double blind trust my ass.
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