"Then we started not putting tariffs on China Steel, steel coming in from China and other countries.
They were supplementing their industry, and they took our steel industry away from us. So I lost my job. They shut the mill down, and then I had to go figure it out.
At the time, I was married with three kids, and this was in the 80s, early 80s, and I had to figure it out. I couldn't get a job that was going to pay sufficient for. To be able to survive. So I had to create my own businesses, and I've done that ever since. But it was the taking of the steel mills from this country and all these others that they've taken the auto industry and everything else that's killed our economy.
Now you start making a fair playing field is what Mr. Trump is doing. President Trump is doing. Those jobs will come back, people will start making money. And you say, oh, well, you know, now we're not going to get cheap products.
Now we're not going to get cheap products. But all the money that we're paying those countries for those cheap products will stay in this country and we will start manufacturing and we will have those jobs that pay good again. You'll see.”
1978 was about the time the domestic auto industry really lost the plot. It was bad before, but only incrementally.
Up to this point, having a transmission fail was a relative rarity on a new car. This was the start of it becoming commonplace. Cars got seriously downsized, the sheet metal got markedly thinner. Rust started to be structural and not just body panels. I was a kid back then, and into cars. Watched it happen and heard my adult relatives complain as they noticed.
Not to mention that was about when my Dad started getting laid off every couple of years and moving from company to company. His former employer had one of the largest buildings in the world at the time and was an industrial powerhouse for almost 50 years. In 1978 they moved the HQ from Cleveland to LA and by 1982 they were gone as was most of the industry in Cleveland OH. There was a mall where the plant was that's since been torn down for an Amazon warehouse.
He gives us such a great personal perspective of how the middle and working classes have been gutted. I'll bet there's millions of people who have lived through the same. Plus, we all are living through this time of hyperinflation so we know what it feels like to live under fiat dollar slavery.
And what's really troubling about Chinese steel is that they have been caught falsifying the lab reports on the quality of their steel. A lot of it is trash - I was a quality auditor for the ship building industry for 25 years.....
And their steel is crap. Would you fly in a plane made in china? (Yes I know what globalism and dei did to boeing and pilots and air traffic controllers, but imagine flying in a Chinese airplane in addition to that or living in a Chinese high rise. Remember when China got our toy industry? They put lead paint on the toys and the Chinese ceo had to commit suicide to atone.)
That was a very high wage for back then, that's for sure. But those jobs were not only tough, but tough to get, usually a pretty tight club kind of like longshoremen.
When my father was 18 years old, he bought 16 acres of land for $2,000. He built himself two houses on the land and never had a mortgage, as he paid for supplies as he built them.
"Then we started not putting tariffs on China Steel, steel coming in from China and other countries.
They were supplementing their industry, and they took our steel industry away from us. So I lost my job. They shut the mill down, and then I had to go figure it out.
At the time, I was married with three kids, and this was in the 80s, early 80s, and I had to figure it out. I couldn't get a job that was going to pay sufficient for. To be able to survive. So I had to create my own businesses, and I've done that ever since. But it was the taking of the steel mills from this country and all these others that they've taken the auto industry and everything else that's killed our economy.
Now you start making a fair playing field is what Mr. Trump is doing. President Trump is doing. Those jobs will come back, people will start making money. And you say, oh, well, you know, now we're not going to get cheap products.
Now we're not going to get cheap products. But all the money that we're paying those countries for those cheap products will stay in this country and we will start manufacturing and we will have those jobs that pay good again. You'll see.”
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1978 was about the time the domestic auto industry really lost the plot. It was bad before, but only incrementally.
Up to this point, having a transmission fail was a relative rarity on a new car. This was the start of it becoming commonplace. Cars got seriously downsized, the sheet metal got markedly thinner. Rust started to be structural and not just body panels. I was a kid back then, and into cars. Watched it happen and heard my adult relatives complain as they noticed.
Not to mention that was about when my Dad started getting laid off every couple of years and moving from company to company. His former employer had one of the largest buildings in the world at the time and was an industrial powerhouse for almost 50 years. In 1978 they moved the HQ from Cleveland to LA and by 1982 they were gone as was most of the industry in Cleveland OH. There was a mall where the plant was that's since been torn down for an Amazon warehouse.
He gives us such a great personal perspective of how the middle and working classes have been gutted. I'll bet there's millions of people who have lived through the same. Plus, we all are living through this time of hyperinflation so we know what it feels like to live under fiat dollar slavery.
And what's really troubling about Chinese steel is that they have been caught falsifying the lab reports on the quality of their steel. A lot of it is trash - I was a quality auditor for the ship building industry for 25 years.....
And their steel is crap. Would you fly in a plane made in china? (Yes I know what globalism and dei did to boeing and pilots and air traffic controllers, but imagine flying in a Chinese airplane in addition to that or living in a Chinese high rise. Remember when China got our toy industry? They put lead paint on the toys and the Chinese ceo had to commit suicide to atone.)
That was a very high wage for back then, that's for sure. But those jobs were not only tough, but tough to get, usually a pretty tight club kind of like longshoremen.
Thanks Jimmy Carter…
The politicians subverted us. They betrayed us.
They got paid.
Clinton got millions for the ChiComs.
When my father was 18 years old, he bought 16 acres of land for $2,000. He built himself two houses on the land and never had a mortgage, as he paid for supplies as he built them.
Minimum wage at the time was 3.25
I remember 3.35 then.
It was a long time ago.