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And by the way China is cornering the world market of scrap metal used for steel production. They can obviously manufacture steel far cheaper than the US steel industry burdened by unions and restrictions. Non partisan facts. Should we ship all our scrap metal over to China (like we are doing) and then allow them to sell the steel back to us for 10 cents on the US steel industry dollar? Maybe so...Send our logs to Japan so they don't have to buy our lumber. They simply pay more for our natural resources that they need. Even our sea urchin eggs....for pete's sake..
$500 per pound....
See what I mean about trade/tariffs. You can bet your ass that every US comapny that uses steel loves to see the price of steel driven down. US Steelworkers hate to see the price of steel driven down.

It's a hard issue to take sides on. Unions are a huge burden on any industry.......but we've seen what industry does on its own without the presence of unions and that isn't pretty either.

I guess it depends on your perspective. ;\)
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