[Pietro]

For the edification of our national Freepers; Monesson is an old steel mill town on the Monogahela River 20 miles or so south of Pittsburgh.

It gives blight a bad name.

I worked at the Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel mill that used to be there as a teen (early 70s). It was a rat hole then.

The mill's been gone for decades and there ain't nothing, nothing there.

Trump showing up at Monesson is absolutely amazing.

Absolutely AMAZING.

[Red Steel]

Great info.

[Zenjitsuman]

Is this a large venue for the speech like for a rally or its just big enough for a news event.\?

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Monessen is just across the river from it’s “twin city” Charleroi, another rat hole.

We went to a County tax sale last year in which the man running the sale joked about the long list of Charleroi properties up for delinquent taxes. He offered to sell the entire town for $10K.

[justlurking]

The article says the venue is an "industrial plant".

If it's a defunct, decrepit building, it will offer one heck of a counter-point: this is what past trade policies have wrought. Or, perhaps it's one that has survived and perhaps thrived. The, it could be an example of what Trump promises.

Personally, I think Trump needs to build on his trade positions with how the cost of regulations have increased the cost of employees, causing a lot of the off-shoring. Obamacare is an object example of that, but he has to make it simple -- without scaring people into thinking they will end up with no health insurance.

I also think he should confront the minimum wage debate, and say: raising the minimum wage will simply shut out a lot of young, low-skilled workers from entering the market and getting the experience they need. But, he has to counter that with the expectation that the demand for skilled employees will raise wages for experienced people that are currently working for minimum wage.

I don't know how you make these points for people that can't grasp the law of supply and demand. They don't teach this in school, and economic illiteracy is just one of the reasons it's an uphill battle to reach people that reflexively vote Democrat.

[Eagles6]

Just down the river from me. Was a booming, vibrant town up until the mills closed. Now it’s a Section 8 ghetto filled with welfare trash. Like Charleroi, Donora and all those Mon Valley towns. Sad.