After returning home from New Hampshire after canvassing Democrat Primary Voters for the United Auto Workers, I was confronted with the Jan. 11 front page story about rail cars built in Korea and purchased by our own MBTA (“What’s coming down the tracks”).

Don’t American companies and workers have the ability to build these cars, or anything, for that matter? Not so long ago another barge was loaded with machinery from the now-closed Revere Copper and Brass Plant. That barge was headed for Korea.

At one time, the Revere Plant employed hundreds of workers and was the source of income for many families in the New Bedford area. I was one of those workers and my father before me.

Unfortunately, Revere met the same fate as many other United States companies — closed. We try to put our faith into the political system to preserve our American Dream, but I guess the MBTA is looking out for the Korean Dream.

What hurts even more is that this betrayal of the American worker is being funded by our own tax dollars.

Now we have Mitt running for president to save the American Dream. The only problem is that he made his millions as a “Corporate Raider” as CEO of Bain Capital by closing many U.S. plants and putting many U.S. workers out of work.

I was looking forward to having a rail service come to the SouthCoast to help create jobs. And it did, only in the wrong country.

Thanks MBTA and our state politicians.

Willie Desnoyers

Mattapoisett

(Courtsey of the SouthCoastTODAY.com)