New World Trade Center Tower To Be Made With Glass From China And Steel From Germany -
Did you know that the new World Trade Center tower is being constructed with glass from China and steel from Germany? 1 World Trade Center, also known as “The Freedom Tower”, is not just another skyscraper. It is essentially a national monument. But that doesn’t mean that we are above awarding construction contracts to the lowest bidder. The new World Trade Center tower will contain 250 tons of steel from Germany and the lower floors will be surrounded with blast-resistant glass from China. This is yet another example of how the U.S. economy is being hollowed out. Once upon a time, the United States produced more steel and glass than anyone else in the world. But now we are being deindustrialized at a blinding pace. We have lost tens of thousands of factories and millions of jobs over the past decade. We are going to have a trade imbalance of about a half a trillion dollars this year. Meanwhile, our federal, state and local governments are going into massive amounts of debt in order to keep funding government activities at a level that our hollowed out economy simply cannot support any longer.
Did you also know that the new MLK memorial on the National Mall was also made in China?
Yet there was very little uproar about that in the mainstream media. A few activists out there made some waves, but generally people do not seem troubled by this.
The following is an excerpt from a report about the new MLK memorial in The Telegraph….
However, there has been controversy over the choice of Lei Yixin, a 57-year-old master sculptor from Changsha in Hunan province, to carry out the work. Critics have openly asked why a black, or at least an American, artist was not chosen and even remarked that Dr King appears slightly Asian in Mr Lei’s rendering.
Mr Lei, who has in the past carved two statues of Mao Tse-tung, one of which stands in the former garden of Mao Anqing, the Chinese leader’s son, carried out almost all of the work in Changsha.
More than 150 granite blocks, weighing some 1,600 tons, were then shipped from Xiamen to the port of Baltimore, and reassembled by a team of 100 workmen, including ten Chinese stone masons brought over specifically for the project.
Well, if you don’t care about where our national symbols are made, you should at least care about the millions of jobs that we have been losing.
Since 1975, the United States had run a total trade deficit of more than 7.5 trillion dollars with the rest of the world.
All of that money could have gone to U.S. businesses and U.S. workers. In turn, those businesses and workers would have paid taxes on all of that wealth.
But instead, all of that wealth went out of the United States.
The proponents of the theory of “comparative advantage” tell us that each country should focus on the things that they are most efficient at making, and then they should all trade with each other.
Well, when we merged our economy with the economies of nations where it is legal to pay slave labor wages, suddenly we made it more “efficient” for big corporations to make almost everything overseas.
The more we have “liberalized” our trade, the faster we have lost jobs.
The American people need to learn the facts. The United States has losta staggering 32 percent of its manufacturing jobs since the year 2000, andover 42,000 manufacturing facilities in the United States have been closed down since 2001.
Between December 2000 and December 2010, 38 percent of the manufacturing jobs in Ohio were lost, 42 percent of the manufacturing jobs in North Carolina were lost and 48 percent of the manufacturing jobs in Michigan were lost.
Thank you George W. Bush and Barack Obama for such a wonderful economic miracle!
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