After about 3 decades of squabbling between members of the King family and a whole lot of questionable financial issues a monument to Martin Luther King Jr is slated to finally be built in Washington DC. Just one problem. We are going to import Chinese labor to build it.
An American bricklayer's union is calling on the Obama administration to deny visas to a group of Chinese workers selected to travel to Washington this fall to assemble a sculpture on the National Mall in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Look I am just an ornery enough guy to piss everybody off. First I wouldn't import labor to do it and second I wouldn't award the contract to a union shop either. I would open up the bidding to private contractors outside of the DC area. According to all the facts, figures, and numbers, that is one area of the country which is not experiencing the same level of job insecurity as the rest of the nation, which is why those inside the beltway just don't seem to grasp what is causing so much of the anger in the rest of the country. The number of laborers cited is between 8 - 12 anyway but it would breathe a little bit of life into some poor contractor wondering where his next job is coming from.
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