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In reply to the discussion: Yesterday the last car rolled down the line at Lordstown GM in Lordstown Ohio, I wept as I [View all]Demsrule86
(70,679 posts)Americans with globalism...the idea that we would be better off competing with low wage workers is total crap and we have seen green jobs shipped overseas as well as white collar jobs. What we are left with is a a massive loss of job as Perot once stated...a rush to the bottom and the reward is a weak consumer centered economy which is unsupportable long term. This combined with tax cuts that targeted the top incomes created a huge inequality problem. It will never be solved by a universal wage where a majority of Americans would get very little money and the rich would live like feudal kings. We must bring back jobs with reasonable laws for outsourcing companies (carrot and stick) and tariffs for those countries that screw us...not like Trump's tariffs but one that actually work. We must also tax the rich and corporations.
YSU has been helping Youngstown to improve . While Tressel is not perfect, he has done some good things. And I see progress. But we just lost good paying auto (and parts) jobs- thousands of them in Ohio...and other areas. And for what? It is supposed to help the steel industry to issue tariffs...there is not enough steel left for it to work and steel pays some of the lowest wages in Ohio-less than Walmart for line workers. Compare that to the high wages in autos for line workers and you see why this was so damn stupid. And steel tariffs hurt companies like my husband's too ;They are a steel company that make parts for auto plants and parts plants as well.
More than likely Parma GM will close without Lordstown and a Ford plant may close as well due to parts supply issues...I am not sure Maryvsille is safe either...Honda plant. I wonder if this was Trumps way of further weakening the unions which it did. This is heartbreaking for our area but it is a blow to the entire country.