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To: Cringing Negativism Network

They were willing to sell their grandmother to China because she joined a union. The demise of millions of manufacturing jobs can be placed at the feet of the Unions.

How many steel mill jobs were lost during the period that Bain ran the company? Did you know that over 20,000 steel mills jobs were lost in 2001 due to cheap imports? Just about every steel mill in the United States was facing bankruptcy. The whole industry was imploding. In 2001 it was impossible to save the company. In 2002 Bush imposed tariffs of up to 30 percent on various kinds of imported steel to in an attempt to save the dying industry.


39 posted on 01/14/2012 4:37:12 AM PST by BushCountry (I hope the Mayans are wrong!)
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To: BushCountry

Please, don’t bring facts into the discussion.


44 posted on 01/14/2012 4:44:23 AM PST by truthkeeper (Vote Against Barack Obama in 2012! (That's my story and I'm sticking to it.))
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