[Daus]

Do you believe the Steel industry would have remained vibrant if these handouts had not been made?

Industries such as these have no future in this country if what it requires (largely back-breaking labor) is available elsewhere cheaper and non-unionized.

[MonroeDNA]

Exactly. We're not going to pay somebody $35 an hour to dip ladels, or screw bumpers on cars. We'll buy cheaper steel elsewhere, or foreign cars. Don't ask us to subsidize overpaid labor.

[A Patriot Son]

Do you believe the Steel industry would have remained vibrant if these handouts had not been made?

Yes Absolutely, Yes!

They are still around--even as the skeletons they are so certainly they'd be vibrant without the all-out US government financed attack against them.
(And can you even imagine the modern factories they'd have with the billions of profits they'd have earned without the artificial competition the US government built against them?)

We(the US government) built the competition and continue to in this quest for globalization/world government/International Socialism or whatever you wish to call it.

[A Patriot Son]

Industries such as these have no future in this country if what it requires (largely back-breaking labor) is available elsewhere cheaper and non-unionized.

First of all labor is not the only or even the biggest factor.

The secret is to keep the technology you nation invents as long as you can and not share it and and as your competitor nations discoer, aquire or steal your technology always hav newer more proidutive technology. And always have higher productivity than your lower wage competitors. Remember the USA has the highest productivity in the world in most industries (including steel--amazingly since our plants are much older than the ones many of our competitors have via US government financing).

But as a we are locked out of large markets like Germany and Japan due to high tarifs while we don't tarrif their steel at all.
Nearly every policy of our government and the foreign governments works against our manufacturers.

But the deluded tAX-FREE Trade at any price crowd just completely ignores these facts with their heads in the sand (in a relious zealot manner at the altar of so-called-free trade).