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U.S. Steel to invest $750 million to revitalize flagship Gary plant in wake of Trump tariffs
Chicago Tribune ^ | August 16, 2018 | Robert Chsnnick

Posted on 08/18/2018 1:11:54 PM PDT by John W

U.S. Steel announced Thursday that it is investing $750 million to revitalize its flagship Gary plant to gear up for increased demand in the wake of President Donald Trump’s tariffs on imported steel.

The company said the investment will make “significant upgrades” to increase efficiencies at the 110-year-old Northwest Indiana plant, which is U.S. Steel’s largest, employing 3,800 workers.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: Illinois; US: Indiana
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1 posted on 08/18/2018 1:11:54 PM PDT by John W
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Democrats Outraged?


2 posted on 08/18/2018 1:16:45 PM PDT by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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To: John W
Too awesome for words. Just amazing. Thank you President Trump! MAGA!

 
3 posted on 08/18/2018 1:18:45 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ("Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.")
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To: John W

I hope Joe and Edith Unionworker take note.


4 posted on 08/18/2018 1:21:19 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: John W
I recently drove past that plant. It's HUGE. Size of a city. This will push Chicago Leftists into spontaneous combustion.


5 posted on 08/18/2018 1:24:43 PM PDT by katana (We're all part of a long episode of "The Terrific Mr. Trump")
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To: John W
A few months back there were some serious supply issues with steel, some due to hoarding.

Always good to see more domestic steel production. The mills provide good paying jobs, they employ lots of swinging D's, and they require extensive tooling and equipment.

6 posted on 08/18/2018 1:28:30 PM PDT by caltaxed
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Gary fricking Indiana. That’s like North Korea announcing its become a capitalist country.


7 posted on 08/18/2018 1:36:28 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (GOAT POTUS TRUMP)
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To: John W

President Trump you magnificent bastard.


8 posted on 08/18/2018 1:36:29 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: fishtank

I hope the Republican party takes note.

A real estate developer with three ex-wives and as many business bankruptcies is doing things they’ve only talked about since Reagan left office, and he’s doing it with Reagan’s coalition while simultaneously purging the neocons and fighting a rearguard action against a hostile administrative state. And the press corps today makes Sam Donaldson look like a wallflower.

You gotta know how to fight, and you have to have the scars.


9 posted on 08/18/2018 1:37:14 PM PDT by ameribbean expat (Socialism is like a nude beach - - sounds great til you actually get there. -- David Burge.)
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To: katana
Needs paint 😄
10 posted on 08/18/2018 1:39:07 PM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jeffersons)
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To: John W

When Barry Soetoro was organizing that community, his efforts led to the shut down of that steel plant. Looks like the new community organizer is re-opening it. MAGA!


11 posted on 08/18/2018 1:47:43 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: McGavin999

I’m currently reading through an 8-volume biography of Winston Churchill. In 1917, when he was Minister of Munitions, he wrote memos on the importance of a strong British steel industry to the British effort in fighting World War I.

Same thing applies to the USA in 2018!


12 posted on 08/18/2018 1:49:05 PM PDT by StevieB
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To: SERKIT

If the wun wasn’t so lazy and enjoying the party circles, he’d complain a little.


13 posted on 08/18/2018 2:06:46 PM PDT by wally_bert (Terrific! Terrific? Harve Nyquist never ordered any radials.)
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To: StevieB

I totally agree. We should never be dependent on another country for essentials.


14 posted on 08/18/2018 2:07:55 PM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jeffersons)
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To: Pride in the USA

This is an amazing bit of winning!


15 posted on 08/18/2018 2:08:28 PM PDT by lonevoice (diagonally parked in a parallel universe)
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To: John W

I would sure like to see Baltimore Sparrows Point plant get restarted


16 posted on 08/18/2018 2:08:31 PM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: John W

I want to be careful how I word this.

But, some liberal types, have been happy to see factories and industrial facilities shutting down. Among their reasons are that such facilities produce pollution.

They ignore the fact that great strides have been made, to reduce pollution from these facilities.

So it stands to reason, that with the liberal eco nazi focus on global warming and greenhouse gas and all that, that even the much cleaner industrial facilities of today, would still be objectionable to them, regardless of whatever economic benefit comes from them.


17 posted on 08/18/2018 2:11:40 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Jimmy Valentine

That won’t happen. Most if not all of the old Bethlehem Steel Plant at Sparrows Point has been torn down. The property was bought by a foreign energy company and is used for LNG Storage.


18 posted on 08/18/2018 2:20:55 PM PDT by PJBankard (Heaven has strict immigration policies. Hell has open borders.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Liberals are Luddites and hate machinery.


19 posted on 08/18/2018 2:21:43 PM PDT by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and America!)
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To: CodeToad

Very true.


20 posted on 08/18/2018 2:25:04 PM PDT by wally_bert (Terrific! Terrific? Harve Nyquist never ordered any radials.)
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