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.
"Even today, after the election, the Washington establishment still hasn’t processed or properly dissected its [Black Monday's] effects. Economic experts predicted that the service industry would be the employment of the future. Steelworkers were retrained to fill jobs in that sector, which was expected to sustain the middle class in the same way that manufacturing did.
It did not. According to a study done by the Midwest Center for Research, the average salary of a steelworker in the late 1970s was $24,772.80. Today, according to the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics data, the median household income in the Mahoning Valley is $24,133."
Cars are plastic today.
Did Hillary talk to them at that time like she did the coal miners last year?
I guess I'm doing it wrong. I never got a free car, let alone aid to take one home. Although I do think GM owes my grandkids a pickup truck, since they will be paying for one. Too bad it would be a Chevy.