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Re: U.S. Steel Firing Up Furnace in Alabama
[Re: squacks]
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02/12/19 12:58 PM
02/12/19 12:58 PM
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Steel is a strategic material and we must maintain the ability to produce at least minimum strategic amounts of it. The production of it also requires several types of raw material that will employ miners again. One more thing is being able to control the quality. X2 iron ore mines need to get going again, the smelter I work at us to get taconite (iron ore) from north minn. Mines but have trouble getting it now. Now they buy anaconda slag by the truck load , works ok but furnace runs hotter and is smokey when slagging off.
Let me sugar coat this
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Re: U.S. Steel Firing Up Furnace in Alabama
[Re: Finster]
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02/12/19 01:46 PM
02/12/19 01:46 PM
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We won WWII because we had everything we needed and could get what we did not have and the skilled labor to make what we needed but with us being dependent on other countries for our daily needs it just puts us in a bad position.
Just remember how it was sold as a good idea for the Country and the only ones that benefited by sending our jobs overseas was the idiots telling us it was a good idea.
Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!
Jerry Herbst
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Re: U.S. Steel Firing Up Furnace in Alabama
[Re: Law Dog]
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02/12/19 02:02 PM
02/12/19 02:02 PM
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We won WWII because we had everything we needed and could get what we did not have and the skilled labor to make what we needed but with us being dependent on other countries for our daily needs it just puts us in a bad position.
Just remember how it was sold as a good idea for the Country and the only ones that benefited by sending our jobs overseas was the idiots telling us it was a good idea. Just retired few months ago with 40 years in the Steel Workers Union.Go Trump!!!!
the wheels of the gods turn very slowly
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Re: U.S. Steel Firing Up Furnace in Alabama
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02/12/19 03:40 PM
02/12/19 03:40 PM
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Main reason is we need quality steel. Yes China will always be cheaper priced, but the quality is just as cheap or nonexistent . Back in 2000 when manufacturing took a giant dump, shops laid off or completely went out of business because China promised way cheaper prices products. It took 19yrs, but that work is coming back because China cannot produce the quality needed. That and the tax breaks for these large companies. High corporate taxes are what drove many of them out of the country.
We are told not to judge all Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, but are told to judge all gunowners by the actions of a few.
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