Posted on 06/17/2015 1:08:48 PM PDT by Nachum
Discouraged with the lack of private sector investment in the green energy economy, Vice President Biden recalls the same frustration in a speech to american steel workers in 1973: 'In World War I we made a mistake,... we bombed the wrong steel mills.'
JOE BIDEN: "You know it reminds me, I remember back in 1973, I came from Pennsylvania and steel and coal were a big deal, particularly steel. I remember making a speech to the United Steel Workers sponsored by US Steel. There were 3,000 people there and I was a young Senator. Come out and I say, 'you know in World War I we made a mistake, and I was being not unusually Biden controversial. And, I said we made a mistake, we bombed the wrong steel mills.
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Geesh. SMH.
Who is paying Biden these days? The Local Bricklayers Union 404 circa 1918????
He’s either very brave or a fool. I remember a time when you did not dare park your Toyota in Pittsburgh or when you returned you’d find a loyal USW member had taken a sledgehammer to it.
Brain cancer is contagious?
Bombing our own steel mills? Destruction is what the government does best. Government policy has pretty much bombed the economy.
Libs subscribe to the whole stuipid economic theory that a “Broken Window helps the Local Economy” and Marie Harth says ISIS exists because they all have economic problems and no jobs for jihadis, then, byu their logic we should be bombing the living crap outta the ISIS areas to give everyone there a job so they are too busy re-building to be cutting off heads?
But we want to Help ISIS economically by giving them all jobs cleaning up destroyed buildings and digging graves!!!
But the dems can’t see their own infallible logic...
When Toyota first came out(aging myself) my father and I went down to the dealership. After we left I asked why we didn’t get one. He said he looked at a stack of oil filters sitting out and it had all that Japanese hokey pokey writing on it and he said he just couldn’t do it.
In a weird sense he’s right, but it wasn’t WWI, it was WWII.
We bombed Germany’s industrial steel mills to rubble, so after the war we, under the Marshall Plan, provided for them to build all new steel industry using the latest technology of the time, while ours were still turn-of-the-century tech. Ours being so old and decrepit that they could not compete, eventually died out, that coupled with union labor costs......................
Anybody remember Bethlehem Steel?.............
You know...I’m pretty sure the reason Obama picked Biden as his running mate was to insure that he (Obama) looked competent by comparison.
And Republic Steel down in The Flats in Cleveland. Buncha blast furnaces, and lotsa jobs!
Didn’t Carter pretty much destroy the steel industry?
Remember? Heck, I still have several wire bound editions of Bethlehem Structural Steel Shapes and data on my shelves.
And Kaiser Steel in Fontana, California.
BILLY JOEL
“Allentown”
Well we’re living here in Allentown
And they’re closing all the factories down
Out in Bethlehem they’re killing time
Filling out forms
Standing in line
Well our fathers fought the Second World War
Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore
Met our mothers in the USO
Asked them to dance
Danced with them slow
And we’re living here in Allentown
But the restlessness was handed down
And it’s getting very hard to stay
Well we’re waiting here in Allentown
For the Pennsylvania we never found
For the promises our teachers gave
If we worked hard
If we behaved
So the graduations hang on the wall
But they never really helped us at all
No they never taught us what was real
Iron and coke
And chromium steel
And we’re waiting here in Allentown
But they’ve taken all the coal from the ground
And the union people crawled away
Every child had a pretty good shot
To get at least as far as their old man got
But something happened on the way to that place
They threw an American flag in our face
Well I’m living here in Allentown
And it’s hard to keep a good man down
But I won’t be getting up today
And it’s getting very hard to stay
And we’re living here in Allentown
Bethlehem steel is now part of Arcelor Mittal usa steel company, all of the mills that were viable and not dilapidated crap are still around, plus new mills and new equipment.
Republic steel is also part of arcelormittal now.
Are they still union?.....................
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