Yeah, right.
Except that there is now high-end office space and swanky malls sitting on the land where the mills used to be.
Are these bad things? I don’t get it.
Almost unbelievable hearing someone running for public office in this country even speaking this way. I like it. Whether it can be done is another question. Nicer than hearing the opposite postion that we have heard over the last 30 years.
How? By raising the tariffs on imported steel?
You can bring back the coal industry in Pittsburgh, but not the steel industry. Back in 1880 when the steel industry in America was taking off, it took three tons of coal to every ton of ore to make steel. So because of transport costs, the mills were located near the coal fields and they brought the ore to them. That’s why there were historically no steel mills in northern Minnesota.
Since the 1920s, increased efficiency in the process requires only about one ton of coal per ton of ore to make steel. It no longer makes sense to locate the mills on the coal fields. Instead, if you’re going to bring back the American steel industry, it makes sense to do so on the south shore of Lake Michigan, where you can ship the ore by freighter down the lakes and bring the coal a short distance by rail from southern Illinois or Indiana.
I would have expected a businessman to know this.
What’s your point? That you are dumb enough to take Trump literally here? What Trump is saying is he will do his best to keep the steel and coal industry we have and build on this. Trump tariffs will bring back some steel industry.
As opposed to Democrats who want to kill coal and have been somewhat successful. In contrast to Cruz who has said nothing about tariffs because he is a GOPe creature
No, I don’t want the coal and steel industries back. I can’t agree with that. Why would I want to bring back those kinds of jobs when some many people are now used to and fully adjusted to a salary of a burger flipper?
Next thing you know the guy will be proposing to eliminate H1B visas so people can’t come the the U.S. and take away the few remaining good paying jobs.
Grist for the mill.
Excellent. And Trump will do it too Opposite of Obama, who was working on eliminating US industries.
I've said it for months
All the steel mills and steel related industries in and around Pittsburgh are graveyards that, imo, could be RELATIVELY inexpensive to rejuvenate and upgrade
I don't know that much about a lot of things, but if you could see the empty parking lots that used to employ thousands on each shift .... there's money to be made by experienced steel people here in SW Pa.
I keep hearing how Trumps not a politician, but he sure as hell has the campaign promises part down pat!
The only thing Trump needs to do is get Congress to rescind a bunch of heavy handed federal regulations to free up capitalism to work in the coal and steel industries....
But since Trump is going to destroy the GOPe according to a lot of Trump supporters, I’m not sure who he can cut a deal with....maybe the libtards...?
Just pointing out the silly notion of the GOPe being destroyed by Trump...
There’s still a market for anthracite coal.
The steel industry will never be the same as it was many years ago for a lot of different reasons.
Goes for Cleveland too! We used to have industry in The Flats. Republic Steel, Sohio and related industries. Lots of jobs!
And I heard he is going to bring back Joe Paterno to manage the mines!
Pandering to local crowds is a staple of political campaigns everywhere, and Donald Trump’s is no different. But the key to successful pandering is knowing to whom you’re speaking and, of course, what you’re saying.
Trump was way off base on both those counts Wednesday, when he spoke before a crowd of supporters at a rally in Pittsburgh.
“I know a lot about Pennsylvania, and it’s great,” Trump said. Which is standard-issue stuff, but then things got awkward.
“How’s Joe Paterno?” Trump asked. “We’re gonna bring that back? Right? How about that whole deal?”
Paterno, for those who may have forgotten (including, possibly, a certain presidential candidate) died in 2012. (Wait, is bringing him back from the grave an essential part of making America great again?) ...
Source: THE WASHINGTON POST | April 13, 2016 | Des Bleier
Always knowing the right thing to say shows that one is ready to be President, right???
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Natural gas will gradually take the place of coal, as long as the socialists are kept from killing natural gas production.