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Originally posted by Chewbaccus
"Steel from the wreckage of the World Trade Center has been sent to India and China for recycling and is set to end up in new construction projects. ..."
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Ties in directly to a post in Current Events entitled "America' Enemy..." . Nucor Steel and most foreign steel companies have innovated technologies using electric arc furnaces. USX, Bethlehem Steel, LTV, and many other US steel companies are so anti-American as to not even construct a single blast furnace in 40 years. It is cheaper to ship steel to foreign producers, process it, then ship a finished product back - rather than ship it across NJ to USX's integrated steel mill Fairless Hills PA or to Bethlehem Steel in Sparrow Point MD. Why? Both companies are lead by enemies of America - MBAs who will now appeal to another MBA - George Jr. - for protection from 'evil foreign producers'.
PBS documentary series called Skyscraper followed a new building, near the Intrepid Museum (the WWII aircraft carrier parked on the Hudson River) from foundation to occupancy. It was cheaper to have steel produced in Belgium (where average wages then were higher than in America), ship that steel to Houston for cutting, then ship to NYC for construction - instead of having all work performed in an integrated (all functions available on site) steel mill of Fairless Hills PA.
Why was steel from Belgium less expensive? USX is an anti-American institution in the same category as Enron that runs to government for protection rather than innovate. Therefore World Trade Center steel will be shipped overseas. An 'intelligent' president will solve this problem? He is being asked to raise tarriffs to 40% so that anti-American USX will save their top management. Corporate welfare. Just another insult for the WTC.