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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.
Not to mention a friggin' nuisance on the roads leading to Door County.
You are equating elimination of tariffs and encouraging free trade as anti-progress? I have nothing against the US steel market in any way, but, if they cannot stay competitive with the international market, why should we support them?