[raybbr]

The great and glorious American steel industry was brought down, way back in the early '60s, by outrageous demands, a sitting president ( JFK ) who has less than no idea how to govern, let alone handle the strikes, and now, we have posters here, ranting about foreign steel.

Actually the reality is that American steel companies brought in Japanese, Swiss and German engineers to view the new steel making process called continuous casting.

The went back to their home countries and built new mills while the corporatists at U.S. Steel thought they would always reign on high in the world of steel.

They did not build new mills but thought that the existing mills would be able to keep up production.

You really only know the capitalist party line and don't look much further, do you?

[nopardons]

Comrade, your lack of factual knowledge re the steel industry here and when it began to collapse, is glaring. The massive amounts of strikes, escalating union demands, and (yes, here you are correct, but decades late ) ignoring updating, began in the late 1960s, but hit its stride in the 1960s.

Since you're against CAPITALISM, you really should consider moving to Cuba or perhaps even N.Korea..."worker's paradises" both. :-)