[DeTomaso] NPC: Calif Bridge Made in China

Jim Hendrickson chendric at bellsouth.net
Sat Sep 24 23:21:39 EDT 2011


 


Political Correctness

The following is the 2007 winning entry from an annual contest at Texas A&M
University calling for the most appropriate definition of a contemporary
term. This year's term was Political Correctness.

The winner wrote:
"Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical
minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which
holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd
by the clean end."




-----Original Message-----
From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On
Behalf Of Curt Hall
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 12:42 AM
To: michael at michaelshortt.com; John Bentley; Ken Green
Cc: Jeff Udelson; detomaso at realbig.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] NPC: Calif Bridge Made in China

Political and Correctness...Two words that don't make sense in the same
sentence!

--- On Tue, 9/20/11, Ken Green <kenn_green at yahoo.com> wrote:


From: Ken Green <kenn_green at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] NPC: Calif Bridge Made in China
To: "michael at michaelshortt.com" <michael at michaelshortt.com>, "John Bentley"
<gndplne at yahoo.com>
Cc: "Jeff Udelson" <jefude at yahoo.com>, "detomaso at realbig.com"
<detomaso at realbig.com>
Date: Tuesday, September 20, 2011, 2:41 PM


And the killer is that the government requires that a lot of work like this
is done by union labor making much more than the average tax payer, and
then if the state can't afford union labor, they send the work to China.
 
Political correctness taken to insane lengths.
 
Ken

From: "michael at michaelshortt.com" <michaelsavga at gmail.com>
To: John Bentley <gndplne at yahoo.com>
Cc: Jeff Udelson <jefude at yahoo.com>; "detomaso at realbig.com"
<detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 2:31 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] NPC: Calif Bridge Made in China

and California is BROKE, so they paid others to build it elsewhere using
state tax money and did not receive any tax money back again from those who
did the work?

Even the Socialists know better than that.

HA HA HA,

Y'all ( present company excluded I'm certain) deserve everything you get,
idiots!


Michael



On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 5:21 PM, John Bentley <gndplne at yahoo.com> wrote:
> ok, what does your personal opinion about Fox News have anything at all to
do with the stupid decision to move more American jobs to China?  Are you
bitching about Fox, lost American jobs, or both?
>
> JB
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Jeff Udelson <jefude at yahoo.com>
> To: "detomaso at realbig.com" <detomaso at realbig.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 2:08 PM
> Subject: [DeTomaso] NPC:  Calif Bridge Made in China
>
> No  reason to wonder about the pathetic state of jobs in this country.
>
> As plucked from the terrible right wing rag  Fox News. Read it and weep .
>
> When it was built in 1936, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was a
Depression-era project that put scores of Americans to work. When its $6.3
billion replacement opens in two years, it will be an international affair
from the bottom up, an example of massive outsourcing that has drawn both
praise and criticism.
> Half a dozen countries contributed expertise or materials, none more so
than China.
> "China was immensely helpful to getting this project built," says
California Department of Transportation spokesman Bart Ney. "They were able
to turn the steel around and work directly with our own inspectors to make
sure we met the specifications of what this bridge required."
>
> Construction work continues on the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
>
> Construction work continues on the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011, seen from Treasure Island in San Francisco.
>
> Several thousand Chinese workers spent five years fabricating the steel
used to construct the roadbeds, cable strands, and landmark tower for the
single anchor suspension bridge set to open in 2013.
> But the project is sparking outrage among groups who argue the work should
have stayed here.
> Huge deck segments were shipped overseas from Shanghai, contributing to
pollution, say critics, and delivering another blow to California's battered
economy and 12 % unemployment rate.
> Roger Ferch with the National Steel Bridge Alliance says "I saw one
estimate of the fabrication man hours, the labor to construct this bridge in
the fabrication shop of more than a million man hours. That's a million man
hours of work that should have been done in the US."
> And each job, Ferch, says, has a multiplier effect "because not only do
you lose the fabrication jobs, you lose those people paying taxes, those
people buying groceries, those people buying clothing, and the list goes
on."
> California transportation officials argue they saved $400 million by
turning to China, in large part because they didn't have to pay American
union wages and benefits. With the clock ticking, they say more was at stake
than money.
> "We're trying to get this bridge completed by 2013. These segments that
are larger steel boxes were fabricated in Shanghai because they had the
ability to produce them and get them out here on site," contends Ney.
> Some critics have questioned the quality of the steel work done overseas,
but bridge officials say their inspections have shown that China, which has
dominated bridge building for years, has helped produce a structural marvel
that will be immediately usable after a major earthquake.
> Twenty two years after the Loma Prieta Quake brought down a section of the
upper deck, seismic integrity is the primary objective.
> The new span is also expected to enhance San Francisco's skyline, and,
like it or not, China's resume as a world leader in civil engineering.
>
> Read more: 
> http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/09/20/san-francisco-oakland-bay-bridge-
> controversially-made-in-china/#ixzz1YWrXOgJo
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