karel adams wrote:
"Richard Lamb" schreef in bericht
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This message came in today from one of Tailwind gurus.

This is NOT good news, so I'm considering it as bad news.


Richard Lamb

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I just talked to Charllie at Dillsburg concerting 4130 sheet. I now
call weekly for the latest update. According to Charlie (and I agree)
what we are seeing with 4130 is endemic of the entire steel supply.
Over the years, America's ability to manufacture our own steel has
steadily diminished to the point where we are now dependent of CHINA
for 4130. They can charge whatever they want and deliver according to
their own convenience.

Out sourcing of our ability to produce the products we need is a
disaster that threatens everything. Terrorists, who want to see the
end of our country, don't need to do a thing except wait. Our own
stupidity, greed and laziness will do the job for them. Jerry


Looking on from faraway Europe I can only agree.
Exactly the same thing is happening here
(but also with wheat from the US...)

Some call this the advantages of the worldwide market...

Karel



The only thing we have to do to stop the outsourcing is require all
companies to obey the same environmental and workplace safety laws that
companies struggle under here (here being any so called '1st world'
nation). The list of regulations we dump on someone when they seek to
employ another makes the FAA look libertarian. If the Chinese operators
had to provide even half of the safety measures that are required here,
they could not hope to compete. But it's a lot cheaper to produce steel
when you can clog the air as we did in the 50s and 60s, and cheaper to
produce chemicals when you can run the waste out a pipe and into the
stream out back.

Stand up for workers rights and environmental
protection...EVERYWHERE...not just the US/Europe.

I'm just glad I bought all the sheet I will need two years ago. Where
are you and how much do you need?

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