No jobs for America- this should piss you off!

[Ronin13]

ABC News has a segment called Bringing America Back, a bit about putting America to work. Well, for CA, TX, NY, and AK not so much. Several infrastructure projects (this time bridges and tunnels) that cost in the hundreds of millions, and in CA's case Billions, are not going to American companies, but instead, to Chinese (state owned) firms. The city government told ABC that the Chinese firms were able to do the jobs faster and at a lower cost. But what is the real cost? Hurting our economy by not putting that government money into American workers pockets. There is even a law that states that city and state government has to hire American firms to do infrastructure work if the price is reasonable. Several construction companies that bid on the jobs state that they could have done it just as fast and for the same amount but were still denied. WTF? This is why our economy isn't improving, and I'm willing to bet that Obeyme doesn't have the pills to step in and say this is wrong.
Video here.

[Byte Stryke]

um, He not only approves of it, he probably planned it.

who do you think is pulling the strings of the guy pulling Obeyme's strings?

[Singlestack]

um, He not only approves of it, he probably planned it.

who do you think is pulling the strings of the guy pulling Obeyme's strings?

+1 Based on previous history and behavior, I don't doubt that Beeho is behind this. That said, Kalifornia is full of lots of libs-in-charge these days to make these type of wrong decisions without any help whatsoever...

Singlestack

[Danimal]

It is not that basic. Even if the company is foreign owned they are still using products and services here, fuel, materials, rental equipment, housing, food, etc. A majority of the money still stays here.

This is not necessarily accurate when dealing with Chinese. They are particularly frugal when it comes to spending disposable income. They will not spend a cent over the basic cost to survive and the rest will go to China where they can get ten times the spending power for every dollar earned. Similar to how a 80K job in Iowa buys a nice house, nice cars and a decent standard of living, but in Comiefornia you will be renting in the ghetto.

Here is a little fun fact I found out the other day. Boulder county will not be spending any more money to repair roads because they are out of money for the fiscal year. This is because they spent all of the money to build a research center for open space preservation, and studied prairie dog towns so they could better protect their fragile habitat. I almost shit my pants when I was told this.

[WETWRKS]

Being a Chinese owned company...I wonder how well the job is done. Where they are cutting corners. Look to Chinas construction and then start looking at this.

[sniper7]

I may be mistaken, but I believe E-470 has ownership roots back into China.

All I know is that it was a private road, and I am stuck paying $10 a year county TAX for it. bullshit....tear it down.

[soldier-of-the-apocalypse]

I may be mistaken, but I believe E-470 has ownership roots back into China.

All I know is that it was a private road, and I am stuck paying $10 a year county TAX for it. bullshit....tear it down.

I,ve heard someone in UAE owns e470

[CrufflerSteve]

It is a real problem but neither party will touch it. It is bipartisan (translate: bend over). Whenever members of one party try to fight this the rest of his party and the other one kill any proposal.

This is just rawer than most. Every attempt to keep the money in the US gets beat back. It may be a stimulus but I'm not sure just what is being stimulated.

Steve

[Rucker61]

So do you want more US jobs or smaller government expenses? Either way, someone is not going to be happy.

[Whistler]

So do you want more US jobs or smaller government expenses? Either way, someone is not going to be happy.

Are the two mutually exclusive?