Reply #38: Here's free trade for you, my company had about 17000

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employees in 1970, by 1980 about 13000, by 1990 about 6000 and today 3000. In addition to losing all those jobs we went through 2 bankruptcies. I have given up well over $100,000 in wage concessions over those years and have lost 3 pensions. In the 70's we got a government loan to build a rail mill and, guess what, a project comes up to build the Washington DC subway system, who gets the contract F--ing France a with a government subsidized steel industry. We build a new state of the art electric arc steel furnace and ,guess what, the world bank loans the Chinese money to build one to compete with us.