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Western PA steel workers are ecstatic after President Trump delivers a massive deal between U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel saving 11,000 jobs:
X ^ | 05/29/2025 | Charlie Kirk

Posted on 05/30/2025 2:29:51 PM PDT by SmokingJoe

"I can take a breath today." "It's like early Christmas around here." "I was crying. I'm not ashamed to admit it."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: jobs; labor; pennsylvania; randpauloutraged; steel; ussteel
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President Trump delivers yet again!
1 posted on 05/30/2025 2:29:51 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe

Still winning. Feels great.


2 posted on 05/30/2025 2:32:17 PM PDT by gildafarrell (You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.)
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To: SmokingJoe

DJT to the rescue.


3 posted on 05/30/2025 2:32:20 PM PDT by yldstrk (Nothing like the truth)
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To: SmokingJoe

Surely some Obama - Biden judge can be found to block the deal.


4 posted on 05/30/2025 2:33:52 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: SmokingJoe

I’m happy for them. The public sometimes forgets how one solid business can improve the lives of many families for several years at a time. It’s not something you only see in old black and white movies.


5 posted on 05/30/2025 2:35:30 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: SmokingJoe

could be a good deal assuming that the details work out okay

https://6abc.com/post/us-government-have-control-nippon-steel-deal-trump-sen-mccormick-say/16575145/


6 posted on 05/30/2025 2:42:12 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: lee martell

A-K Steel = Armco Kawasaki Corp. works well


7 posted on 05/30/2025 2:43:20 PM PDT by griswold3 (Truth Beauty and Goodness)
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To: PAR35

Only to be overturned by SCOTUS.


8 posted on 05/30/2025 2:45:45 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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How dare you save polluting steel workers jobs!


9 posted on 05/30/2025 2:47:05 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I worked at the circus as The Human Cannonball, until they fired me.)
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To: SmokingJoe
President Trump delivers yet again!


I'm very happy that President Trump did an outstanding job at once again making critical contributions towards saving the US steel industry after Obama and Biden both did their best to run it into the ground.

It's really sad to see that out once dominant steel industry has been so beaten down that it's only realistic option was a takeover by the Japanese with guarantees of substantial Japanese re investment in modernizing and upgrading our U.S. Steel.

If done right , this will help both the US and Japan take on the unfair completion from China and other emerging competitors

10 posted on 05/30/2025 2:55:32 PM PDT by rdcbn1 (TV )
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Ah, yes. In 2016, when asked about President Trump’s statement about creating jobs in America, for America, Hussein stated something close to: “what’s he gonna do, wave his magic wand?”

As soon as Hussein returned to power in 2021, he began destroying as many jobs as possible.

Barack The Magic Negro practices with underwold ‘magic’ while living with his ill-gotten gains.

For those of you in Rio Linda, the Los Angeles Times were the first to use the term Magic Negro, in reference to his Highness Hussein.

From the groove yard of forgotten favorites.

Paul Shanklin as the ‘Reverend’ Al Sharpton, singing through his bullhorn.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lb7dus9IIck


11 posted on 05/30/2025 3:00:53 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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Too bad Abbott can't find that same sympathy for 53,000 workers he is fixing to destroy by outlawing legal THC products in Texas.

Not to mention $8,000,000,000.00 in direct tax revenue, PLUS the secondary and tertiary rollovers of payroll revenue injected into the Texas economy.

AND giving the drug cartels a HUGE boost in potential sales.

Dan is running offg at the mouth about "saving children" from this evil.

If he was serious he would ban all 7-11s from selling candy and booze.

Close liquor stores throughout the state.

Crappy fast food? Gone.

You get the picture.

I say remove all the little fav spots and booze in restaurants (kids might sneak a drink, ya know...), corner beer/wine/liqueur stores, grocery stores and gas stations that THEY go to and see just how many of the above mentioned consequences THEY start howling about.



Funny how Greg and the boys get all self-righteous when an election is on the horizon...

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12 posted on 05/30/2025 3:24:22 PM PDT by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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He was against before he was for it. But foreign ownership of a vital piece of a military manufacturing is now ok. We should not be importing foreign capital. US capital should be put to work in good paying investments.


13 posted on 05/30/2025 3:39:07 PM PDT by FreedomNotSafety
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“We should not be importing foreign capital”

You cannot be serious!


14 posted on 05/30/2025 3:43:25 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: FreedomNotSafety
“But foreign ownership of a vital piece of a military manufacturing is now ok.”

You'd much rather the steel plant be closed?

‘US capital should be put to work in good paying investments.”

US capital had every chance in the world to save this plant and declined.
And forget about the government buying and running it.
That never works, let alone in a highly competitive business.

15 posted on 05/30/2025 3:48:34 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe

Good. But this is also a long game.

He’s dismantling the blue wall brick by brick to set the stage for the GOP nominee in 2028.


16 posted on 05/30/2025 3:49:03 PM PDT by Hoboto (I blame Hippies.)
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To: Hoboto

Hear, hear!!

Borrowing that post, Hobo!!


17 posted on 05/30/2025 3:50:32 PM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: FreedomNotSafety

Without the merger, US Steel was going to shutter.

It’s one of the oldest companies in America.

Rockefeller created it after he bought Carnegie Steel.


18 posted on 05/30/2025 3:54:22 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

No Body has replaced Rush.


19 posted on 05/30/2025 3:57:02 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: SmokingJoe

Either you like imports or you don’t. Why should US Steel and the Steelworkers Union be allowed to have imported capital? At least there should be a tariff on this import. Japanese capital is undercutting US capital and that’s only possible because Japan cheats and engages in unfair trade practices and subsidizes their exported yen. The US dollar cannot compete fairly against the yen. Trump has said so numerous times.

Cliffs has US dollar capital. Why is our steel plant going to the cheap yen? Level the playing field. There is a lot more f unemployed US capital ready to go to work but it must be allowed to compete fairly.


20 posted on 05/30/2025 4:00:40 PM PDT by FreedomNotSafety
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