[gcruse]

"steelworker"
"miner"
"lumber mill"
"smelter"

Revisit DoctorHydrocal's  Keywords in the article.

What they have in common is not only environmental  exposure,
but heavily unionized work forces..  

The people who put up the money and take the risk making
jobs possible have government imposing ever-increasing
environmental regulations on them on one side while on the
other side, corrupt labor unions drive wages ever higher to
satisfy the hungers of the Mafia.  Hillary Clinton's virtual
queen-hood over the laborer's union isn't an anomaly.

Excessive taxation drives companies offshore while those who stay
export jobs to remain in business in the international competitive community.
It really isn't that difficult to understand.

[dtel]

It isn't that hard to understand. And as you clearly indicate, it feeds off itself.
Now it has crept up to the average middle income family and after it consumes the middle class, it will move on up the food chain until it collapses upon itself.
We, as Americans, think we have stepped in the way and have for the first time in my lifetime elected the pubbies to control all three branches of gov.
This is an attempt to stop the ball from rolling downhill and gathering momentum, if this fails, what are the recourses left?
This is why these issues are important and will decide the future destiny of the country.