Rant: "People who work for a living; people who take a shower after work"...WTF is that?

[tonyt53]

110. Gotta break it to ya, there will never be government support with the GOP, only lip service.

The cost of steel pipe is going to go through the roof just as soon as those tariffs are placed on foreign pipe coming into the US. The few US companies that manufacture that same type of pipe will raise their prices to just under, or equal to what the foreign pipe costs. The US companies will make more profit, but in no way will that equate to American workers getting a better wage. Many of the US companies that made pipe were sold off to foreign interests. An entire structure of pipe manufacturers would have to start from scratch. Ain't gonna happen. Oh, and those trade deals? Who is telling you they are bad? The US IS getting something equal in return.

Roosevelt did it with a New Deal. Obama tried a baby New Deal and was hammered by the GOP then and still now. The US economy had slowed considerably and the Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. That got the US moving again.

It wasn't regulations that made the pipe manufacturing leave the US. It was cheap labor - plain and simple. Oh, and every heavy manufacturing facility utilizes steel pipe.

The Obama instituted a massive jobs retraining program in 2009 for people that lost their jobs. Sadly. most of the people that sought the retraining gave up very quickly. They had no "want to" - and more importantly, no education, which mage something new very scary to them. I am a rep for a building trades union apprenticeship committee. Starting pay is about $17 per hour with benefits totaling about another $18 per hour. Journeyman is double the wage. The applicant pool gets slimmer and slimmer every year. An applicant does not have to have training in the field. There are no maximum age restrictions. What gets many applicants is that they have to pass a pretty simple skills-type test (math, reading comprehension, and an ability to take direction. Half of the applicants can't make the bare minimum score.

Bringing back manufacturing to the US is not even remotely as simple as some may want to believe. But it sure as hell isn't going to happen with the GOP running every state and the US government.