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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

Put a little WD-40 on that and it should be good as new.


2 posted on 06/10/2018 1:07:10 PM PDT by babble-on
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To: babble-on

How does the headline reflect the article, which interviews a steel worker who supported Trump and still doees?

Oh wait ... NPR.


5 posted on 06/10/2018 1:12:10 PM PDT by CaptainMorgantown
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To: babble-on
He knows what it is like to lose a steel mill job. This is the third mill he has worked at in recent years. One of the previous mills went bankrupt; the other moved most of its jobs to Mexico. Along the way, Almashy lost his home, his pension and his 401(k).

The mills he worked at were production mills. They closed as U.S. steel production has been in decline for many years. The "mill" he works at now is not a production mill, its a second-level processing mill.

The tariffs are designed to produce more steel domestically. The Russian company that owns his processing mill will either close, sell to another company, or start buying American steel. But even if it closes, if the product he makes has a demand, another American mill will have a job for him to pick up the slack.

23 posted on 06/10/2018 3:16:45 PM PDT by henkster (Monsters from the Id.)
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To: babble-on

We have our share of folks on FR who also get stuck on the short-term and personal picture and who would rather we keep getting screwed to the tune of over $800 Billion a year as long as they don’t have to adapt to anything new - even if the longer term new stuff is heavily in their favor.


25 posted on 06/11/2018 2:40:49 AM PDT by trebb (Too many "Conservatives" who think their opinions outweigh reality these days...)
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