[A Patriot Son]

No....Bethehem closed down mills because the United States government spent billions of US citizen's money building modern steel plants with American technology for Japan and Germany and South Korea and Russia and other countries after World War II and beyond and allowing them to ship steel here tax-free or at very low tarrifs. And the US government transfered massive amounts of technology to these country(as it does with China an an ever-accelerated pace now). And the US government repeatedly allowed these countries to violate our anti-dumping laws in their successful attempts to put American producers out of various sectors of the steel market.

International Socialism by the US government is what has destroyed most our steel industry. And it continue to destroy what is left of it at the exztreme risk to our economy and our national security.

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**Last year the US government via Congress sent hundreds of millions of dollars to the Asian Export/Import Bank to build three massive modern new steel plants in China to help destroy our steel industry.

[DoughtyOne]

It doesn't surprise me. They've basicly been using our tax dollars against us for at least one decade in absolute earnest, perhaps two sortof haphazard. One has to wonder what the hell happened to the policies that saw our nation become second to none? We've abandoned them and are collapsing in on ourselves.

[B4Ranch]

It's good to see someone get it right. CONGRATULATIONS!