US Infrastructure Projects Going to PRC

SuperHornet · Post by **SuperHornet** » Sat Jun 23, 2012 5:01 pm

Chinese state-owned agencies are snapping up public works projects as big as $7B despite laws requiring them to go to US firms. While I'm not exacly sure President Obama can be personally blamed for this, his DOJ is certainly dropping the ball.

Of course, what else is new? DOJ has been notorious for picking and choosing which laws to enforce under Holder. Just another example....

FWIW, this isn't a right-wing conk site spouting this. It's ultra-lib ABC....

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/us-brid ... t=14594944

Post by **Ivytalk** » Sat Jun 23, 2012 6:38 pm

The Red Chinese can't even build a set of pick-up sticks without screwing up, and we trust those folks, who build collapsible high- rises, with infrastructure? SMFH.

Post by **kalm** » Sat Jun 23, 2012 6:46 pm

Ivytalk wrote:The Red Chinese can't even build a set of pick-up sticks without screwing up, and we trust those folks, who build collapsible high- rises, with infrastructure? SMFH.

So now you guys are bitching about globalization? SMFH

Post by **Ivytalk** » Sat Jun 23, 2012 6:53 pm

kalm wrote:
Ivytalk wrote:The Red Chinese can't even build a set of pick-up sticks without screwing up, and we trust those folks, who build collapsible high- rises, with infrastructure? SMFH.
So now you guys are bitching about globalization? SMFH

The Chinese are the Japanese of the 1950s: crappy, mass-produced products and services. And the Chinese show no signs of improving. All they can do is steal our intellectual property. Deal with it.

Bronco · Post by **Bronco** » Sat Jun 23, 2012 6:54 pm

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Nobody gets anything from our president without a cash contribution to his reelection campaign.

Post by **Cap'n Cat** » Sat Jun 23, 2012 7:08 pm

Bronco wrote:-
Nobody gets anything from our president without a cash contribution to his reelection campaign.

You're right, Bronchitis.

Post by **kalm** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 5:44 am

Ivytalk wrote:
kalm wrote:
So now you guys are bitching about globalization? SMFH
The Chinese are the Japanese of the 1950s: crappy, mass-produced products and services. And the Chinese show no signs of improving. All they can do is steal our intellectual property. Deal with it.

I like Sony and Toyota products. Perhaps in another 30 years we'll be able to see some digitized Chinese junk too.

Post by **Ivytalk** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 5:50 am

kalm wrote:
Ivytalk wrote: The Chinese are the Japanese of the 1950s: crappy, mass-produced products and services. And the Chinese show no signs of improving. All they can do is steal our intellectual property. Deal with it.
I like Sony and Toyota products. Perhaps in another 30 years we'll be able to see some digitized Chinese junk too.

Japan managed to turn it around, but you have to credit that country's educational system and its relatively free political economy. I don't see the ChiComms doing the same thing, and China's current labor cost advantage is eroding as we speak.

Post by **kalm** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 5:54 am

Ivytalk wrote:
kalm wrote:
I like Sony and Toyota products. Perhaps in another 30 years we'll be able to see some digitized Chinese junk too.
Japan managed to turn it around, but you have to credit that country's educational system and its relatively free political economy. I don't see the ChiComms doing the same thing, and China's current labor cost advantage is eroding as we speak.

Damn uppity labor force, expecting a piece of the pie.

Post by **Ivytalk** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 5:55 am

kalm wrote:
Ivytalk wrote: Japan managed to turn it around, but you have to credit that country's educational system and its relatively free political economy. I don't see the ChiComms doing the same thing, and China's current labor cost advantage is eroding as we speak.
Damn uppity labor force, expecting a piece of the pie.

Screw China. Move those plants to Bangladesh!

Post by **kalm** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 6:01 am

Ivytalk wrote:
kalm wrote:
Damn uppity labor force, expecting a piece of the pie.
Screw China. Move those plants to Bangladesh!

Yay! A race to the bottom!

Post by **Ivytalk** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 6:35 am

kalm wrote:
Ivytalk wrote: Screw China. Move those plants to Bangladesh!
Yay! A race to the bottom!

That's the capitalist spirit! You're catching on!

Post by **kalm** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 6:38 am

Ivytalk wrote:
kalm wrote:
Yay! A race to the bottom!
That's the colonialist spirit! You're catching on!

Post by **Ibanez** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 7:10 am

Ivytalk wrote:
kalm wrote:
Damn uppity labor force, expecting a piece of the pie.
Screw China. Move those plants to Bangladesh!

Vietnam is booming. The increased costss in China are driving many manufacturers into Vitenam.

Post by **Ivytalk** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 7:16 am

kalm wrote:
Ivytalk wrote: That's the colonialist spirit! You're catching on!

We should've kept the Philippines!

blueballs · Post by **blueballs** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 9:05 am

Cap'n Cat wrote:
Bronco wrote:-
Nobody gets anything from our president without a cash contribution to his reelection campaign.

Speaking of the chinese, how's chinese porn Cap'n? I've never seen any, whether legal or bootlegged...

When somebody eats out an ass, does that count as a bowl of rice krispies?

CID1990 · Post by **CID1990** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 9:10 am

Ibanez wrote:
Ivytalk wrote: Screw China. Move those plants to Bangladesh!
Vietnam is booming. The increased costss in China are driving many manufacturers into Vitenam.

True, but Vietnam cannot yet accomodate the influx we'd like to see. Also, the government there is going to have to drop the old mantra, or at least do as the Chinese have done by finding a way to talk socialism while eating capitalism.

∞∞∞ · Post by **∞∞∞** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 9:25 am

If I remember correctly, when labor costs inevitably rise because of increasing rights and what-not, it's predicted that India will be the nation to start luring away cheap manufacturing/engineering jobs from China.

Post by **Grizalltheway** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 11:37 am

∞∞∞ wrote:If I remember correctly, when labor costs inevitably rise because of increasing rights and what-not, it's predicted that India will be the nation to start luring away cheap manufacturing/engineering jobs from China.

True, but the red tape and bureaucratic headaches there are a big turn off.

Post by **dbackjon** » Sun Jun 24, 2012 1:44 pm

Grizalltheway wrote:
∞∞∞ wrote:If I remember correctly, when labor costs inevitably rise because of increasing rights and what-not, it's predicted that India will be the nation to start luring away cheap manufacturing/engineering jobs from China.
True, but the red tape and bureaucratic headaches there are a big turn off.

Some of the doctors I work for are Indian - the stories they tell about trying to do anything over there make the worst US bureaucracy look like the model of effieciency

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