Mover Mike

When completed, the Freedom Tower will be among the tallest buildings in the world and the tallest in the United States.

I received my copy of the Labor Press and was disheartened to read that the contract for blast resistant glass for the first 20 stories has been awarded to a Chinese company. The Labor Press states that since 2001 when China joined the WTO, due to $30 billion of Chinese subsidies to their glass industry the U.S. has lost 1/3 of its glass manufacturing workforce.

I hate to see this monument built with anything but American products, but that’s the world we live in today. We are in an economic war and American workers are the losers.

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