Will Anyone Stand Up for American Industry?
6th January 2010
Apparently not.
Why is this bridge being fabricated in China? The troubling answer, according to a lengthy article in the SF Public Press, is that no American company can do the job. America, a country that once pulled off the most audacious of engineering projects with panache, one that put a man on the moon in the 1960s, now can’t even build a bridge to replace one it constructed with ease in the 1930s.
What’s more disturbing, is that China can’t really build it either – but we are teaching them, and paying for them to learn how.