The Chinese will come to the rescue...bet on it! They have their eyes on that strategic ditch anyway.
Do you want high quality, fast delivery or cheap? I can give you two out of three. You pick the two and you can’t change your mind later.
“The bitter taste of poor quality remains long after the sweet taste of low price is forgotten.”
John David Stanhope
I have a feeling that this project is going to go the way of the original Panama Canal.
It went bankrupt and was abandoned by European interests and sent the man in charge into an insane asylum while American engineers stepped up and finished the project.
This is the world playing field for U.S. companies. I worked for a company that was part of a U.S. consortium to build a nuclear power plant. At the last minute we were low-balled by a French-German consortium because the French government guaranteed the consortium wouldn't lose money. The project is way over budget and way behind the schedule.
We took the territory and built the canal. America and its people in those days were young, energetic, happy, glorious, expanding and did lay down the law to foreign nations.
Today Jimmy Carter filled with Love and Tolerance, the American people living a life of eating, drinking, drugging, copulating, evacuating their bowels and snoring did not even notice what the decadent Carter and a bankrupt Congress did in surrendering the Canal to foreigners. There is a price to pay for degeneration and the Canal symbolizes , in part, that price.
So the Free Trade Communists...who support Free Trade with Communist China...thought that by aiding the Communist Chinese financially...would mean they would give US companies contracts to work on the Chinese Canal in Panama?
The Chinese Canal in Panama is basically owned by the Communist Chinese....
Free Traders once again proving to be the most ignorant people on the planet....this nonsense is direct result of Free Trade Communists
http://www.pancanal.com/eng/photo/camera-java.html
Enjoy these live views of the canal.
If you pick the Miraflores Hires view, you can see the expansion canal to the far left.
The view is to the northwest towards the Atlantic(!?)
(some are surprised that the canal runs from the Atlantic souteast to the Pacific)
Bechtel Corp. The ones who were hired for the “Big Dig” in Boston and had almost 800% in cost overruns ... that Bechtel?
I wouldn’t hire them to do a brick walkway to my front door.
Just went through the Panama Canal in November. The new dig is impressive and will be much wider than the current canal. Estimated completion date is April 2015.
With Obama in office any country would be foolish to trust America.