Big Government: American workers in an Illinois steel town are finally seeing relief after years of job-killing free trade thanks to President Trump’s 25 percent tariff on imported steel.
A Chicago Tribune report by Samantha Bomkamp reveals how Granite City, Illinois, is seeing a renewed steel industry after Trump’s tariffs on steel imports were implemented.
In 2015, the Illinois steel town saw 2,000 layoffs of American steel workers from the city’s local steel plant. Now, because of Trump’s tariffs on steel, the Granite City steel plant is rehiring 800 steel workers—about half of which will be those who were laid off in 2015 and the other half will be new hires.
Local business owners told the Chicago Tribune that they’re happy to see the steel jobs reopening in their town, as they say, the layoffs in 2015 hit their businesses as well. more
Amazing, not that Trump has helped make this happen, but that it can happen here in Illinois. Give it a little time, and the idiot democrats in Springfield will find a way to screw it up. This is the most anti-business state in the nation, and they can’t allow a company to grow and profit. It goes against everything they stand for.
It’s not only about these few jobs in the steel and aluminum industries.
There’s a much larger issue that’s labeled the Chinese strategy of economic aggression – 50 tactics and goals that China uses to aggressively undermine true free trade:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/FINAL-China-Technology-Report-6.18.18-PDF.pdf
It’s worthwhile watching this: White House Trade and Manufacturing Policy Director Peter Navarro Discusses U.S. -vs- China Trade Confrontation:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/07/04/white-house-trade-and-manufacturing-policy-director-peter-navarro-discusses-u-s-vs-china-trade-confrontation/
I see rebar in the picture. So long as this steel plant can produce razor wire, with all these liberals going off the deep end, the sky’s the limit.
Dammit.
Short of a complete political revolution and Cook Co. being bulldozed into the lake, there is no hope for a state that put guaranteed union pay raises in its constitution.
If the California breakup actually happens, we have to be next in Illinois. We just need to wall off Cook County, keep them locked in there and away from the rest of us.