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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: craig crawford who wrote (240565)	3/21/2002 9:36:20 AM
From: Dan B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Haven't you figured out that looking out for our own best interests is exactly what I want him to do? Didn't you notice the "cut our own throat" part? THAT is what is so wrong. The estimated future job losses in steel using American Industries, set to result from Bush's meddlings, come in at anywhere from 2.5 to-7 to perhaps as many as 14, for each job saved at American Steel Mills. With the price of manufactured steel products high, who will buy this mandated Mill output? How much plastic or other substitute for steel will finally wend its way into, or even finally totally supply markets where it had never flourished before? OH JEEZ, don't you get it? Tariffs can alter things virtually OVERNIGHT toward a path for the worse for the industry. So try to protect our Mills, but at WHAT COST in the end- less use of steel? Oh, that'll help the mills out, ya boy, LOL. We'll have to totally subsidize them, nationalize them perhaps, when this plays out, just to have any domestic production at ALL. And we don't even really need it, IMO. Bush makes a terrible mistake at a critical time, IMO. Have you noticed that we have no Titanium? Have you noticed that we can only acquire that from Russia, etc., as has always been the case? Do you know how important that is to producing an alloy for an airplane? You can wonder how we EVER got our Titanium out of Russia when it counted over the cold war decades- whenever- and I'll just note that free trade and, Freedom, Works! Dan B