[cba123]

It needs to be said, listened to, and acted upon by our government:

BUY AMERICAN.

We have been selling out America (both parties) for the entire last generation.

[central_va]

All of those "displaced" workers became brain surgeons and software engineers. So it all worked out ok.

Besides all of that imported steel made cars almost free. Then we exported the factories too, so now they pay us to take the imported cars off of their hands.

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Just $183.00 dollars and cents to 93.00%

[Lurkinanloomin]

At the same time our government was throwing open the borders and welcoming in fraudulently documented foreigners.

[fr_freak]

I know that tough economic times can really get people riled up, but I still believe that Trump’s election is at least as much about the destruction of our culture. Millions of culturally incompatible foreigners allowed to invade our country, and sexual perversion pushed on our kids, with abominations like “gay marriage” forced on us by leftwing judges. You can only take so much “LGBTXYZ is beautiful” BS before you say “enough is enough!”

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

I've been in some United Steelworkers headquarters, and the campaign posters still adorning the walls are pretty vicious attacks on the "greed"of companies like Youngstown Sheet and Tube. Half the stuff is in red, with the Soviet-style slogans commonly used by the union.

Truth is, the Steelworkers thought they had the hammer, and could get what they wanted by whipsaw strikes, slowdowns, etc.. in the end, they learned the hard way that the business always has the ultimate trump card of ceasing operations.

[NonValueAdded]

Excellent read, as always. Thank you

[Diana in Wisconsin]

FIRST of all - I LOVES me some Salena Zito! Always have, always will. *HEART*

Secondly, times were bad enough that Billy Joel wrote, ‘Allentown.’ That song STILL makes me sad to this day. :(

That said, I was just coming of age in 1977. (I was 17.) Carter was f-ing up EVERYTHING!

We had to wait in line to get gasoline. The Mortgage on our family home was 18%! (Our farm mortgage in 2017, with three years to go, is 3%!)

I couldn’t find a decent job other than Retail after High School, so I joined the Army - only three years after Vietnam ended. My Mom and Aunties and friends thought I was nuts - but it paid for College and I learned skills that I still use on a daily basis.

I don’t know where I’m going with this, other than the mid-to-late 70’s SUCKED in America.

And I guess one (Selena) could equate it to a Trump Victory, because those of us closing in on Sixty (How’d THAT happen?) lived through it and we’re still cogent enough to REMEMBER. ;)

[TBP]

Just what progressives want.

[central_va]

Top 10 Steel Producing Countries In The World

[Reverend Wright]

In the next big war, America and the West will need that steel capacity.

But the future enemy bought up the politicians, businessmen and unions so that it was offshored to them.

[bitt]

ping

[ameribbean expat]

I give Salena Zito credit, but she is also part of a larger problem with journalism. Someone made the decision to pull the plug on those jobs. What is his name? Where is he today?

No fan of unions, but Victor Posner was every bit a dirtball as the union thugs.

Name names.

[SaveFerris]

[ From then on, this date in 1977 would be known as Black Monday in the Steel Valley, which stretches from Mahoning and Trumbull counties in Ohio eastward toward Pittsburgh. It is the date when Youngstown Sheet and Tube abruptly furloughed 5,000 workers in one day. ]

Wow

[Garth Tater]

Politicians, union bosses and ignorance killed our economy.

Every time a labor or environmental law or regulation was laid on one of our manufacturers their manufacturing costs went up which put them at a disadvantage to their unencumbered competitors over in those asian hell-holes.

We could have rebalanced this manufacturing cost disadvantage with import tariffs but we didn't because of paid off politicians and union bosses. China now has most of what used to be our manufacturing and we gave it to them.

[FreedomNotSafety]

The article is full of references to 70’s SJWs. Dem politicians, and unions. If you ever worked a union job during that era in what is now the Rust Belt you know what all of that means. I consider it another liberal disaster. This was the first round of disasters resulting from unions, Dems energy policies, the war on cars, and tax policy.

That area is booming with investment in factories but it will not boom with jobs. Who wants to invest billions then be held hostage by the aforementioned groups? Plant automation yields investment, white collar jobs, and very little than can unionized.

[SueRae]

Wow. What a good article. I remember the local National Rolling Mills in my area and at least 2 steel plants near me that closed in the 70s. Worked in industrial and manufacturing settings for nearly 30 years and watched them dwindle, even in aerospace... Service jobs just don’t pay the way those jobs did when we were making sruff. Thank you, Salena.

[Ciexyz]

As a Pittsburgh area resident, I remember those days well. I remember how the mood of the entire country was against the steel workers. Greedy overpaid bast##ds got it coming, everyone said. But folks in this area knew this was a test case. If the government and the people in power could do that here, they could do it everywhere. We’re not surprised that eventually the working class everywhere began to suffer. Ha ha ha.

[Rumplemeyer]

Brought to you by the DEMOCRATS.
Jimmy Carter wouldn’t even talk to them, the majority voted for him...once.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Great article. I just shared it on FB & urge everyone to do the same. My liberal relatives need to read this.