[TheForge] Price of steel & scrap

[Andy Vida]

schade@acegroup.cc wrote:

> Not the usual image we have of ourselves...maybe the Chinese
> will give us a lesson in steel making the way the Japanese taught
> us how to make cars.

	Interesting point.  Think of the mentality of the top dogs
	of industry during the latter half of the 19th century. 
	Whatever their other faults may have been, they built wealth
	and in terms of getting the job done and done well, they
	kicked some serious ass.  How is it that we have come to be
	lead by what appears to be a contingent of pussies who
	seem to make just about every wrong decision, taken in the
	context of the longer term interests of the USA?  Are they
	really that clued-out?  Are they really such myopic mental
	fags that haven't the newts to take a long term view of
	their company's position and goals in order to have a
	business left to run and a nation in which to live by the
	time their grandchildren grow up?  Or is there something
	else going on?  Not saying there is, just asking the question.