Posted on 01/17/2016 8:36:12 AM PST by MtnClimber
Commuters driving Pittsburgh's old Lincoln Highway alignment last week caught the last glimpse of the pillars of steam from the Shenango coke plant on Neville Island.
Nearly 60 years after the furnace started producing coke for the once-booming steel industry that personified America's strength and work ethic, it is closing - affecting 173 union and non-union employees - as yet another business that made things ends its run.
Days later, Pittsburgh-based Koppers, which converts steel-production waste into carbon-based chemicals for aluminum, vinyl and wood preservatives, announced that 52 employees would lose their jobs when it shuts its Clairton plant this spring.
Both life-changing events for long-term employees served as bookends to President Obama's State of the Union speech Tuesday. Among the many things he mocked in it: anyone who denies that he led a national economic resurgence.
"Anyone claiming that America's economy is in decline is peddling fiction," he said. He shamelessly went on to embellish statistics, claiming 14 million new jobs, including 900,000 manufacturing jobs.
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0bama is punishing the productive and rewarding the lazy for “fairness”.
Yet, Obama carried Pennsylvania both times.
The idea that people vote in their own economic interest is laid to rest.
Thst joke couldnt sire those two kids!
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