Posted on 03/13/2018 4:14:28 AM PDT by servo1969
MSNBC host Ali Velshi patronized a steel worker on his show Friday by making the assumption that he wouldn't want his son to become a steel worker.
Scott Sauritch, the president of United Steelworkers Union Local 2227, appeared on the show to discuss his support for President Donald Trump's newly announced tariffs of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent on aluminum imports.
"So let me ask you this, Scott. You saw this trend in the 80s. You saw the imported steel was hurting the industry. I guess my question is for steel workers around America as I discussed with somebody earlier, a lot of this is technology, right?" Velshi asked. "It just takes fewer human labor hours to make a ton of steel. At some point doesn't it make more sense to start to transition. You don't want your son being a steel worker I assume."
Sauritch said his son actually just got hired by U.S. Steel "not too long ago," prompting Velshi to ask him whether this bothered him, citing "fewer" steel jobs.
"If a man wants to make a good living and a good wage and a steel good benefits, the opportunity arises. Now for a young man to come in and to have job security, this tariff that is put on across the board is going to help everyone out," Sauritch said.
He went on to defend the steel industry by saying the United States doesn't want bridges built from compromised steel from China.
"There's a difference between quality and junk," Sauritch said.
Sauritch was one of the steel workers invited to speak at the White House on Thursday about his support for Trump's tariffs. He told Trump and other reporters there about his father, Herman, a former worker in the steel industry, losing his job due to increased imports.
Sing it with me now "....Look for, the union label....."
“And you don’t want yours being a media whore, I presume?”
They are all coming back and they too will be automated. There are no good economic reason why automated state of the art steel mills cannot be constructed int the USA. A tariif will help push that along.
Traitors will be saddened I know. But you will get over it.
Perhaps you've not heard of Nucor Steel, which in 2016 produced and sold about 22 millions of steel. Most of Nucor's production assets are in the United States. Their corporate headquarters are located in Charlotte, North Carolina, which (I believe) is located in the United States.
Here is Nucor's Wikipedia page.
That hated American worker is the enemy of the Free Traitors™ and globalists everywhere.
If the steel was that radioactive, it doesn’t give me a warm fuzzy feeling about our ability to detect a nuke coming in via truck.
The United States was a distant third at almost 89 million. A “tonne” is equal to 1,000 kilograms; it is about 10 percent more than a traditional ton. Around the world, 1.41 billion tonnes of steel was used in 2012. The United States consumed almost 97 million tonnes.
The USA is about 10 Million tons short of meeting its own (current)needs. We'll get there despite the lamentations of traitors.
You said "The factories in the USA closed down completely!" in post #16. My point is that that is a false statement.
I whole bunch of steel factories have closed down in the USA since the 1950’s. Are you high?
I'm not high, and I'm also not the one who made an obviously false statement.
Bonehead are you saying there are more steel production facilities in the USA than in the 1950's? ARE YOU REALLY THAT STUPID?
So you are back to using the name central_va, going on about tariffs and calling people traitors again. Now what were the last two names you used again? I don’t recall at the moment.
More honorable than being some TV diphsit who probably doesn’t know how to change a flat tire.
Found it; “Conservative Gato” was the most recent alternate name of yours. I don’t want to spend the time going back further than that to find the other one. You keep using the same phrases like “Free Traitor” and going on about a Depression era Republican plank...not hard to connect the dots. I thought there was some rule against multiple personalities here on FR.
Hey, get a real argument instead of loser failed economic policy of industrial destruction that the rest of the world rejected decades ago. I will listen to you then
Conservative Gato? Who is that?
You are telling me that the USA has the same number of steel factories as in 1970?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.