1. Who are the "neocons luddites" involved with US steel production, and how are they responsible for its rapid decline?
2. Why would a US steel company, as you said a world leader, purchase cheap equipment and then operate polluting equipment, despite the fact that they already have stringent enviornmental regulations?
It also appears that you are suggesting that Neocons are against global trade?
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2. Why would a US steel company, as you said a world leader, purchase cheap equipment and then operate polluting equipment, despite the fact that they already have stringent enviornmental regulations?
Domestic steel producers were not in favor of the Bush Administration's policies.
These policies were implemented for the benefit of the transnational automotive manufacturers (GM, Ford, DCX, Toyota and VW) over the objections of our most modern, efficient and advanced steel manufacturers.
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It is the large, transnational corporations who are pulling the administration's puppet strings to orchestrate the demise of our industrial infrastructure. They view the American Middle Class as merely a consumer market to plunder, a labor market to subjugate and a taxpayer base to shoulder the entire burden.