Working in These Times: Hell No! We Won’t Send Our Tax Dollars to China

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/5139/hell_no_we_wont_send_our_tax_dollars_to_china/

Friday November 6 3:07 pm

By Leo Gerard, USW international President

Taking candy from a baby: A consortium of Chinese and American companies goes to Washington and announces plans to build a $1.5 billion windmill farm in West Texas using $450 million in U.S. Stimulus funds, which will create 2,330 jobs – 2,000 of them in China.

The baby – Washington — doesn’t cry or whine or spit in the consortium’s face. That’s what’s really wrong with this story.

So accustomed to being bought and sold, Washington simply begins processing forms so it can hand over your tax dollars to create jobs in a turbine factory in the city of Shenyang, China at a subsidy of $193,133 each.

It’s like these bureaucrats live in Wonderland. Or an America where the unemployment rate isn’t 10.2 percent. Or where 40,000 American manufacturing facilities didn’t disappear in the past decade. Or where banks didn’t repossess nearly a quarter million American homes in the past three months.

We’ve got a message for Washington: Hell no! We’re not giving tax dollars to China. What’s wrong with these businesses and our government? It is the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. It’s not the Chinese Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

It’s bad enough that we’ve off-shored our factories and technology and jobs over the past 20 years. We’re not off-shoring our Stimulus cash too. In fact, we’re tired of serving as the schoolyard wimp of the world. We need our own industrial policy so we can stand up and compete in the world market manufacturing the likes of wind turbines. And we need it now.

FULL story at link.

[Brickbat]

1. No one has been able to explain to me how a green revolution will create jobs here -- jobs that

cannot be outsourced like the rest of the manufacturing jobs no one ever thought would go anywhere. For that, K&R.

[truedelphi]

2. Ironically, it has been Repug Congress people insisting htat

Any nuclear reactor contracts provide jobs only for those in this nation.

It will be ironic if it is the Repugs who have to be the ones insisting on the "green jobs" provding work for Americans here, not abroad.

[snagglepuss]

5. That question should prominent on every progressive website.

This also baffles me.

[AllentownJake]

3. Sometimes I scratch my head at their stupidity

Sometimes I want to weep.

[PADemD]

4. Names

http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS200008+29-Oct-2009+BW20091029