USA steel production down 43.3% from same period

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last year. The steel industry is now operating at 50.3% of capacity. Today the government just discovered we have been in a recession since December 2007. Funny they couldn't figure that out until a month after the election.

http://www.steel.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Raw_Steel_Production1&TEMPLATE=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&CONTENTID=23211

[theoldman]

1. We should all read the history of the steel industry to fully

understand the need for an American automobile industry. We would be in deep shit if we ever needed a lot of steel. As anyone who used to work in a steel mill. Notice that I said anyone who USED to work in a steel mill.

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2. Most of the American steel industry

is owned by foreign companies today.