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Regional Poll • US Steel may be bought out by Nippon Steel. Who is at fault?

The Pirates of Xyanth wrote:Much to the distress of unions and President Biden, it looks like US Steel will need a change flags in the near future. Who do you blame for the foreignization of another American icon?

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Xyanth wrote:They got rich before the socialists began making it harder to do business.


Europe was richer than other places since ancient times, remember the roman empire? They had an even a larger production output of raw materials than the chinese empire, and when the empire collapsed, Charlemagne established and preserved the industrial base of Europe in Central Europe with his new holy roman empire, that part was the richest since then.

Xyanth wrote:

These words in hopeless conflict with your earlier words. Unless I misunderstood you, you stated very clearly that government should stop employers from firing employees. You also took an affirmative stand against at will employment. By default that implies some sort of government control over firing an employee.

Contract rules are arbitrary and determined by the government, the government can make laws to make it easier to fire you just like they make laws to make it harder to fire you, the degree of government control stays the same in both cases. With no government laws, there are no "jobs" in the first place because that makes everyone freelancers, and thus, everyone be their own employers and there is no concept of firing or hiring.

Xyanth wrote:

Not going to happen in the near future. Here's the problem: A vote for a third party candidate who has a near zero chance of winning is a vote against your second choice and a vote your worst nightmare does not have to overcome.

Don't think so? Just ask all those Green Party voters in Florida how they feel about Al Gore losing the 2000 election to George Bush Jr. If just six of those green voters in every Florida county had voted for their second choice, Al Gore, there would have been far different headlines.

Yet it is the independents who actually decide elections in the US. Neither the Democrats or Republicans have a numerical majority in the US. That requires the winning party to bring enough independent voters over to their candidate. The Republicans have won a number of federal elections. They could have done so without those people in the middle.

I didn't knew that most candidates in the USA were indipendent and not aligned to any party, is that because it's not a multi party system and if they chose to make their own party, a new party leader with the same votes as the same person but without a party would lose? Generally, here in europe many independents start their own minuscule party. So just someone who is independent has more political influence than, let's say, the third largest party in the USA(libertarians)?

I am not understanding that, myself.
It differs by state, but usually registered voters are so by party, because you are only allowed to vote in your party's primary:
In most states, Republicans and Democrats are not allowed to screw around and pollute each others primaries, so everyone is typically locked in one, or the other before the start, though you do have the option in the final ballot, to vote the ticket all one way, or go through the options individually, and mix it up, if you like.
As far as I can recall, a third party or independent candidate does not always survive to final election, though you are always welcome to waste your vote writing one in.

Corporate Collective Salvation wrote:I am not understanding that, myself.
It differs by state, but usually registered voters are so by party, because you are only allowed to vote in your party's primary:
In most states, Republicans and Democrats are not allowed to screw around and pollute each others primaries, so everyone is typically locked in one, or the other before the start, though you do have the option in the final ballot, to vote the ticket all one way, or go through the options individually, and mix it up, if you like.
As far as I can recall, a third party or independent candidate does not always survive to final election, though you are always welcome to waste your vote writing one in.

By the way, why do you have an EU flag? Are you european? Or you just like the idea of a technocratic EU ruled by corporations?

With the advent of ESG, the US and EU socioeconomic landscapes are completing a consolidation by fascist combines of public/private partnerships eating up all the small spaces in the wake of post disaster market contractions, and leaving them disused, so that the middle and lower classes remain fossilized in a static more manageable state that by mid century hopes to become a digital landscape of nationalized infrastructure, that has pushed everyone not wealthy out of property ownership, and into a kind of rental society where you work, house, feed, and entertain yourself from a limited buffet supplied by larger public and corporate concerns trying to preserve their unsustainable deficit funded paradigms at everyone else's expense.

Some of the nations I have created over the years have been parodies of concepts I detest.
Eusocial governance, collectivism, and the like are at the top of my list, including the concept of collective salvation that the old imperial churches fostered as they began turning the Gospel on its head for the benefit of power mongers almost as soon as Christ began cooling His heels behind that rock for three days.

I'm back. Had a long trial in New Mexico and not all that much free time. Now, time to catch up.

Gurkland wrote:Contract rules are arbitrary and determined by the government,

Not in the US. There are very few things you cannot put into a contract. If it is not precluded by state or federal law, you can agree to it in a contract.

Gurkland wrote:With no government laws, there are no "jobs" in the first place because that makes everyone freelancers, and thus, everyone be their own employers and there is no concept of firing or hiring.

In the US a freelancer (also known as a contractor) comes under a different set of laws than an employee. An employee is paid an hourly wage or salary. Taxes, FICA, and Social Security are withheld. A contractor invoices for services and is paid in full, with all taxes being their own responsibility. Employees operate under the employer's business license(s) and insurance. Contractors operate under their own license(s) and insurance. The list goes on and on, but the bottom line is there are very distinct legal differences.

Gurkland wrote:I didn't knew that most candidates in the USA were indipendent and not aligned to any party,

Not true. While there are many lessor party candidates for office, they rarely get elected. As a rule third party candidates tend to keep one or the other mainstream candidates out of office by taking votes from them. Those casting the votes for the third party candidate probably would not like to see the person they are helping across the finish line win. (See what the Green Party did to Al Gore in Florida during the 2000 election.)

This article about Nippon Steel's bid to buy US Steel ot me to thinking about how this came to be.

In this nation, domestic steel production got so expensive that sometime in the 1980's it became cheaper to ship raw materials to the Pacific Rim, have those materials made into steel, and then ship that steel back here.

Let's set the Way-Back to the late 1960's. Japan was in need of more steel than they could produce. Japanese industrialists came to the US to look at US Steel production facilities with an eye toward buying. They toured Bethlehem Steel, among other plants. At that time, Bethlehem steel had a payroll just north of 5000 people.

The Japanese witnessed people seven or eight people doing a job that should only take four. They saw processes from mixing to pouring that were done manually rather than automated. They discovered flaws and quality issues because of manual due to a lack of electronic and mechanical process controls.

Every inquiry the Japanese made about the above issues and more came down to union rules and requirements.

Those industrialists went back to Japan. They did not place any orders. Three years later the first of several behumouth steel mills opened on Osaka.

That first mill dwarfed Bethlehem by a factor of three. Fully automated with state of the art mixing and process control. That first mill opened with a payroll of 500 people. That was the beginning of the decline of US steel production.

Of course, the unions are screaming bloody murder over Nippon's acquisition of US Steel.

"I feel like they already haven't put America first, by selling out to a foreign entity," USW Local 1557 President Don Furko said.

No, Don, you did this to yourselves over the last 50 years or so.

What do you think? New poll is up.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/nippon-steel-says-us-steel-acquisition-wouldnt-cause-layoffs-plant-closures#&_intcmp=fnhpriver_4

It is an older story than the 1960s, and not exclusive to steel.
Japan started a war, because of its material vulnerability, once.
Post WWII, the US has a history of "recycling" more and more of its raw materials through an international process of, well, processing.
Starting with petroleum, Marxist political influence filtered through labor and environmental reformation has steadily priced the refining of domestic material into manufactured goods out of the hands of all but the most brainy and brassy balled entrepreneurs willing to try their luck.
Except for those concerns approved by ESG standards, of course.
Today, a politically connected corpse can captain those with guaranteed smooth sailing until the math, and social realities catch up to bite that kind of corporate fascism in the ass.
Hell, at this point, just pulling the raw elements out of the ground is almost prohibitively expensive, and it does not take much for a Hillary Clinton to push a US entity into selling out its uranium interests to a Russian consortium; and all of this is intentional, as part of an age old "mea culpa" policy to apologize and appease for the US rising out of WWII a superpower capable of producing and maintaining a military industrial complex that could protect the world from the international adventurism of Marxist-Leninism.
I put it that way, because you apparently cannot call Marxist imperialists, despite the KGB overpopulating the world with Kalashnikov rifles.
The most prolifically produced, distributed, and fired in anger small arm in the world with no close second.
Okay, back to US.
The apologetic paradigm is what inspired the unnecessary flip into a primarily consumerist society, turned US into a piggy bank for UN international wealth distribution, and if it has ever appeared that our trade policy dynamic seems to mostly put US over a barrel, well, that is because it intentionally does.
Again, just to diplomatically salve the egos of lesser powers with an inferiority complex.

I hate, absolutely hate, the continuous pain, misery, and frustration of those handicapped unnecessarily by progressive socioeconomic policy that ultimately does what it does for the sake of control through that most ancient art of pro-scarcity despotism.
Prevent the people from prospering, and punish those who do, before they gain enough sense with their wealth to seek freer, and safer shores.
However, labor unions have helped make their own bed as the primary domestic coffer of Democrat politics, and must now sleep in it; and this is the case for every industry they have helped to greedily price beyond reason.

My concerns are not just for US, however, as we catch up to and combine with the EU, and other consortiums who have been advancing similarly dysfunctional policy models ahead of US, and continuing on after some of the most ridiculous inhuman, and anti-social pandemic mitigation yet fever dreamed by politically compromised technocrats to drive this century into an almost apocalyptic global food deficit.
At least it would be, if the elder heavy populations of the world, most notably those of Asia, were not going to pay that particular piper through the latter half of this century.
People call me a pessimist, but I always look for the silver lining in things, however thin they may be.

Xyanth wrote:This article about Nippon Steel's bid to buy US Steel got me to thinking about how this came to be.

In this nation, domestic steel production got so expensive that sometime in the 1980's it became cheaper to ship raw materials to the Pacific Rim, have those materials made into steel, and then ship that steel back here.

Let's set the Way-Back to the late 1960's. Japan was in need of more steel than they could produce. Japanese industrialists came to the US to look at US Steel production facilities with an eye toward buying. They toured Bethlehem Steel, among other plants. At that time, Bethlehem steel had a payroll just north of 5000 people.

The Japanese witnessed people seven or eight people doing a job that should only take four. They saw processes from mixing to pouring that were done manually rather than automated. They discovered flaws and quality issues because of manual due to a lack of electronic and mechanical process controls.

Every inquiry the Japanese made about the above issues and more came down to union rules and requirements.

Those industrialists went back to Japan. They did not place any orders. Three years later the first of several behumouth steel mills opened on Osaka.

That first mill dwarfed Bethlehem by a factor of three. Fully automated with state of the art mixing and process control. That first mill opened with a payroll of 500 people. That was the beginning of the decline of US steel production.

Of course, the unions are screaming bloody murder over Nippon's acquisition of US Steel.

"I feel like they already haven't put America first, by selling out to a foreign entity," USW Local 1557 President Don Furko said.

No, Don, you did this to yourselves over the last 50 years or so.

What do you think? New poll is up.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/nippon-steel-says-us-steel-acquisition-wouldnt-cause-layoffs-plant-closures#&_intcmp=fnhpriver_4

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