Virgil: Donald Trump, Rosie the Riveter, and the Revival of American Economic Nationalism

Breitbart ^ | March 18, 2017 | Virgil

[HarleyLady27]

Sometimes big ideas get small coverage. Unfortunately, that was the case with President Trump’s March 15 trip to Michigan, in which he raised an important idea—arguably the most important economic-policy idea in U.S. history—and yet his words received almost no attention.

[HarleyLady27]

The History contained in this article is fabulous...those of you that know how to post pictures, please do so, it is amazing to walk back in a time when our Nation came together again...Lets hope we can do it one more time...

[HarleyLady27]

Ping...

[marron]

This is what we’re counting on. It has to show results quickly, or his enemies will make sure it is smothered in the crib.

[marron]

In a lot of these settings he is talking to pro-Trump Democrats. Or Democrats who may wind up being pro-Trump. He should encourage them, not to become Republicans, but to take their own party back from the crazies.

[HangnJudge]

[HangnJudge]

[Duchess47]

Thanks, a great article. My aunts worked in the Bay Area shipyards during WWII. (Richmond, Oakland California)

[ExTexasRedhead]

More awesome military history:

http://mortefontainevillage.pagesperso-orange.fr/marcbrecy/b29.html

Elinor Otto - Rosie the Riveter

http://www.americanveteranscenter.org/2015/02/elinor-otto/

[HarleyLady27]

My Sister, and two aunts, worked for Geneva Steel in Utah during this time while my bil was in the Navy and their husbands were in the service, and another Uncle served in the Army...

I have pictures of them working in the Steel plant...I wonder how many women today would do the work these women did while their men and a Nation went to war...

[HarleyLady27]

Thank you for that information...

[HangnJudge]

http://smithdray1.net/angeltowns/or/go.htm

Part of local history in Oak Ridge

The Calutron Girls kept the Uranium processing going
in the Manhatten Project

[poconopundit]

Trump is talking about the right things. He's giving a clinic on America's enormous potential.

He's providing leadership when over the last decade Americans has been starved for leadership. Go Trump!

[Paal Gulli]

That isn’t Rosie the Riveter. The real Rosie was a Norman Rockwell painting that made the cover of the Saturday Evening Post. The image you’ve posted is the Miller/Westinghouse “We can do it” poster. It has been used as a substitute for the real Rosie since shortly after the end of WWII because the Rockwell estate always has (and still does) vigorously enforced their copyright to the real Rosie. But it wasn’t until the 1980s that someone finally mis-labeled the Miller/Westinghouse poster as Rosie the Riveter, and the error has been repeated so often that hardly anyone questions it any more.

But that ain’t Rosie.

Wikipedia’s rendition of the SEP cover (and the REAL ‘Rosie the Riveter’) is here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/02/RosieTheRiveter.jpg

BTW, Rockwell “borrowed” Rosie’s brawny physique exact from Michelangelo’s Prophet Isaiah on the ceiling if the Sistine Chapel:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Michelangelo%2C_profeti%2C_Isaiah_01.jpg/471px-Michelangelo%2C_profeti%2C_Isaiah_01.jpg

If you’re going to steal, only steal from the best.

[HangnJudge]

But that ain’t Rosie.

OK I bite

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/mary-doyle-keefe-rosie-the-riveter-inspiration-dead-at-92-20150423

[Duchess47]

[Duchess47]

Grandmother with photos of some of her children. Six boys in the service, four boys in defense plants along with husband and two girls in defense plants.