3,000 Chinese workers + 50,000 tons of Chinese steel: Dylan Ratigan on the SF Bay Bridge upgrade

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Right now on the Dylan Ratigan Show.

Taxpayer-funded upgrade to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, 3,000 Chinese workers, 50,000 tons of Chinese steel, and the "savings" that were promised in the outsourcing proposal NEVER HAPPENED.

Fucking DISGUSTING.

[FreakinDJ]

1. With "Stimulus Funds" no less

[summerwind]

13. Bay Bridge contraversy

Not....
The decision to outsource the fabrication of key sections of the Bay Bridge was made about five years ago (can you say during the Bush administration and no he did not have anything to do with the decision) , when a contractor offered alternate bids on the project, says Tony Anziano, a manager at the California Department of Transportation.

"One proposing to do work domestically, one proposing to do the work internationally: There was a $400 million differential in that bid, and in that case it would have required the work to go international," he says.

California avoided legal requirements to use domestic steel by not using federal funds for the job.

[link:http://www.npr.org/2011/09/16/140515737/california-turns-to-china-for-new-bay-bridge|

[Staph]

2. I'm surprised and impressed

by Nick Rahall's discussion of the subject and passionate support for American steel. Nick is basically a good guy, a little on the conservative side (that's how you get elected in West Virginia). But rarely is he that articulate. Good job, Nicky Joe!

[Bennyboy]

3. Yes cripes me too and has since they announced it..; BUT

That was Ahhhhhhhnold's deal right there. He didn't want to spend the money on the bridge so they had to make some concessions as to cost. (And you know you can't argue with Rep that it will create jobs and taxes etc) it is all about the original cost...

It is going to be an amazing bridge however.

[shanti]

11. we'll see how "A-mazing"

it is after our next bay area earthquake

[Ecumenist]

4. OMG!!! I cross that bridge quite a bit, (spend alot of time in the Bay Area)...CHINESE STEEL??!!!!

Their steel is RENOWN for it brittleness and China has a problem with their overpasses collapsing! GREAT, you steroid injecting son of a bitch! My husband goes on and on how brittle chinese steel is and refuses to buy any chinese made tools. THE GOLDEN GATE? OMG!!!!

[ddeclue]

7. wrong bridge.. bay bridge is NOT the Golden Gate bridge. nt

[Ecumenist]

8. That's even worse because I cross that even more, (have relatives in Oakland AND the City..)

[Zalatix]

5. California voters should pass an initiative banning foreign outsourcing of state projects

Who's with me on this?

[Ecumenist]

6. I am BTW, is there any way we can undo this?

I'm not kidding.

[Zalatix]

9. Initiatives need funding. Perhaps we need to contact the Dem party or union orgs?

I can look into that...

[aquart]

10. Everyone involved in this should be named and publicly shamed.

I'd prefer arrest and hanging but how often do I get what I want?

[Brickbat]

12. Fucking SHAMEFUL.

Goddamn I am sick of this shit.

[lovuian]

14. Americans get screwed again

what is new!