Trump put a tariff on steel for a year trying to get the steel industry back that Reagan let leave this country for over 40 years and all the jobs that went with it. I was in the middle of that and watched them almost close every steel industry around here. Some of them hung on for a few more years. US Steel Edgar Thomson Works is still running.
So what your are saying from a Republican history book, was it worth it loosing hundreds of thousands of jobs? I think not. It has never been the same in the United States. We are nothing more than a sales and service country to fix imported machines. How is that working out?
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Originally Posted by bypass
Bypass... saying reagan killed the steel industry is well, to be nice..completely without merit or fact
Alot of factors went into the decline of the steel industry
The steel workers union refused contracts that were offered that tried to upgrade and modernize the facilities that were not able to compete with the new plants overseas. They were greedy and turned them down
I worked around the steel plants. The old open hearth furnaces and bofs. Couldnt compete.
U want to blame someone? Blame the opening of china to capitalism
All new plants and dirt cheap labor and american greed both corporate and union killed the industry
But the same thing happened to the auto industry but they realized if they modernized and updated they could compete and did and still do. Steel didnt
Small steel plants like nucor thrived because they built new plants using electric furnaces, smaller but more productive, the old giants rusted away
Greed by all killed steel
Here's a funny story for you. Maybe 10 years ago, us steel coke works in clariton were going to build new coke ovens...... I went there for a meeting and saw all the steel brought in for the job....... guess where the steel was from to build the us steel ovens?
China....... end of story