Political Quotes

“It takes longer than a few minutes to express my outrage for the loss of steelworker jobs in southwestern Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, and around the country. We have lost, as many have said, over 10,000 jobs. I was there in the 1970s and 1980s when over 250,000 manufacturing jobs were lost in southwestern Pennsylvania. I come from an area that out produced the world in coal and steel that helped win two world wars. But this steel dumping problem is just the tip of the iceberg. Wait until other industries, including farming, feel the wrath of the unbridled world economy, an economy led by the World Trade Organization. The WTO either cannot or will not intervene in cases of subsidized industries and the dumping of products of steel. The WTO is a poor excuse for an international arbiter. Let us face it, we have the most efficient steel industry in the world. Our steelworkers are the most productive in the world. All that needs to be done is to enforce our trade laws. We do not need protection. We need fairness. Our foreign trading partners cannot compete with American workers so they resort to illegal means like subsidizing and dumping. Stand up, America. Are you not tired of being dumped on? Vote for H.R. 975.”