Posted on 07/16/2013 12:03:59 PM PDT by KevinWhiteman
"Fundamentally transform America..." - Barack Obama
Despite certain spin doctors in Washington, D.C. touting a drop in the number of those the Federal government qualifies as unemployed, the harsh reality is that the number of Americans with part-time or temporary jobs are at historic record highs.
If the American people thought things couldn't get any worse, the top employer in the nation is the big-box discount store Wal-Mart.
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Poor writing.
uhh....the steelworkers went away around 1980 (I know.....I was here)
Yeah, you can credit the drastic drop in the number of steelworkers to a number of factors, but they haven’t been recent ones. All of this was a function of mistakes/issues that were of the 60s/70s.
A) The EPA came on the scene and did a number on the tech used at the time (coke making etc).
B) The unions priced themselves out of a job.
C) management was riding on easy money and didn’t do the investment into new technology.
How long before we wise up, restore the import tariffs, and return industry to America?
The import tariffs were lowered around 1960.
Outstanding, informative, well written and well punctuated article with monumental use of grammar and capitalization.
I would not be surprised to see the author win a Pulitizer.
The lowering of import tariffs should have been A).
So called “Free-trade” did not help either.
So true.Most of the young people I know cant pour piss out of a boot with the instructions on the heel.
How high do you want to raise my taxes, in order to restore American prosperity?
Zero. Lower income taxes by an equivalent amount. I keep telling you that, but you just don't listen.
Of the countries with which we have free trade agreements, which are steel-making powerhouses?
And if you don’t restore American Prosperity your taxes are going to go up anyway. You’re already paying for over 100 million Americans to be on food stamps.
Haven’t you had enough already? How much more do you want to pay to support unemployed Americans. Your kids will be paying for them for decades. Assuming of course we fix the problem and your kids can find jobs.
While I imagine we could have pushed tariffs high enough to protect domestic producers, it would have been some work because our companies were falling well behind in tech. The Japanese and Germans had invested in all the new production equipment, and could simply make better steel for less money (and a lot less man-hours per ton). You cannot keep up with AODs using open hearth technology.
Of course pushing that tariff high enough to protect the incompetent companies and the overpaid unions would have screwed over every steel using industry. But then nobody seems to worry about that.
But why exactly should we have pumped up tariffs to protect an industry that screwed itself over via incompetence?
China is the biggest steel exporter.
And while I suspect you are going to claim we don't have a free trade agreement with China, the fact is we import about 4 times from China what we export to China. If it's not free trade, it's about as close to it as you get.
That argument doesn’t wash: I need to pay more for my next car because I need to keep people off food stamps?
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