Comments on: Something’s Rotten in Farrell

By: Arkanabar Ilarsadin

Arkanabar Ilarsadin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:10:01 +0000

The tragedy of protectionism is this: every job saved in a protected sector comes at a cost of eight jobs lost in other sectors.

By: DWC

DWC — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:05:01 +0000

I come from these steel valley’s of northeaset OH and western PA regions. It is no surprise to anyone that the unions were the principle reason for the loss of jobs from the begining slide in the 70′s … and it continues today. Steel. Autos. You name it. Unions have been cripled since then … but they continue to find niches. And it’s moving towards the service industry as well (which is harder to outsource, not not immune). Protectionism … like the angry dog … always bites back.

By: Joe DeVet

Joe DeVet — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:06:39 +0000

We Catholics have articulated a principle of “preferential option for the poor.”

Thus,a specifically Catholic concern about this and many other interferences in the free-market system is that these encroachments invariably render the system less efficient–which means fewer choices in employment, products, and services, and higher prices for these fewer choices for all of us. For the rich this becomes an inconvenience. For the poor it becomes a very serious problem of getting enough of the basics of life. For the poor workers at this plant, it becomes a catastrophe.

The USW, AFL-CIO, and the Obama administration–the truth is not in them.