America shouldn't be 'made in China By Joel D. Joseph When I visited the new Martin Luther King memorial in Washington, I was shocked to learn the 30-foot-tall statue of our leading civil rights icon was by a Chinese sculptor, out of Chinese granite, and carved in China. Couldn't we find an African-American sculptor to carve King's image out of American granite, with the work being done in the U.S.? At at time when 14 million Americans are unemployed, and President Obama and Republicans in Congress are hammering out a jobs bill, why are we sending big work projects overseas? Yet from one U.S. coast to the other, that's what is happening. On the West Coast, California contracted for the rebuilding of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, with the main steel framework being built in China. On the East Coast, Chinese companies have won contracts in New York City to repair the Alexander Hamilton Bridge over the Harlem River...
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