While the media has been peddling all of these doomsday scenarios surrounding President Donald Trump’s tariffs, the American working class is simply NOT BUYING IT.
1977, Carter: MY dad a WW11 Vet worked for Youngstown Sheet and Tube when this happened. 1977, Jimmy Carter was President. Carter never even bothered to send out an aide to receive the petitions when they arrived. Amazingly, the president, who was a well-known supporter of the working class, never even acknowledged them.
It was just before 7 a.m., and the fog that had settled over the river was beginning to lift. As the sun began to streak through the mist, the men made their way into the labyrinth of buildings where they worked.
In the next hour, their lives would change forever.
From then on, this date in 1977 would be known as Black Monday in the Steel Valley, which stretches from Mahoning and Trumbull counties in Ohio eastward toward Pittsburgh. It is the date when Youngstown Sheet and Tube abruptly furloughed 5,000 workers in one day.
The bleeding never stopped.
Within the next 18 months, US Steel announced that the nation’s largest steel producer was also shutting down 16 plants across the nation, including their Ohio Works in Youngstown, a move that eliminated an additional 4,000 workers here. That announcement came one day before Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp. said they were cutting thousands of jobs at their facilities in the Mahoning Valley, too.
Within a decade, 40,000 jobs were gone. Within that same decade, 50,000 people had left the region, and by the next decade, that number was up to 100,000. Today the 22 miles of booming steel mills and the support industries that once lined the Mahoning River have mostly disappeared — either blown up, dismantled or reclaimed by nature.
If a bomb had hit this region, the scar would be no less severe on its landscape.
“The domino effect of Black Monday went on forever,” said Gary Steinbeck of nearby Warren, Ohio. Steinbeck was working up the river that day from the rolling plant at H.K. Porter, which also later went out of business. “The word spread quickly. Back then there weren’t any cellphones or social media. Good news travels fast, bad news travels at the speed of light. We knew within the hour the guys down the river were hurting, we knew within a day families were hurting, we knew within a week the whole region was suffering,” he said.
“Those numbers only reflect the jobs that were lost in the plant; the ripple effect was equally devastating. Grocery stores, pizza shops, gas stations, restaurants, department stores, car dealerships, barber shops all saw their business plummet and they started closing,” said Steinbeck.
What you are talking about happened in the Midwest region (some folks don't know that), where I lived, it was felt all the way over in the Pacific Northwest region, I lived in a military town at the time as a preteen, and even I knew back then something shifted in how our lives would be. Neighbors used to talk with one another across the fence lines, or over the party lines when you picked up the phone receiver. It wasn't uncommon to know everyone's business before it was printed in the newspapers, but the shift in downsizing and transferring jobs over seas changed how we communicated and "socialized" with one another, and anyone can see the differences of that ripple effect if they remove the blinders, the earmuffs, and the masks (see nothing, hear nothing, say nothing) - just the way a SINGLE GOVERNMENT ENTITY survives. Some folks started to notice it during the Obama administration, but not enough to realize the extent of the damage that was being, and continues to be done to our peoples, our nation, our survival. If we don't take care of our own home, we cannot properly take care of our neighbors either
Donald Trump announces sweeping reciprocal tariffs against ‘friend and foe’ with a 10% minimum. Trump announces sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs against key allies
A 54% total tariff rate against Chinese imports will go into effect on April 9, with tariffs announced against over 100 trading partners
You are spot on with this! Trump is truly for the American people at large! Right! We need to Hang tough and strong with him on this one and not buy the leftist hysteria! Let him finish the job! Support him!
1977, Carter: MY dad a WW11 Vet worked for Youngstown Sheet and Tube when this happened. 1977, Jimmy Carter was President. Carter never even bothered to send out an aide to receive the petitions when they arrived. Amazingly, the president, who was a well-known supporter of the working class, never even acknowledged them.
The day that destroyed the working class and sowed the seeds of Trump https://nypost.com/2017/09/16/the-day-that-destroyed-the-working-class-and-sowed-the-seeds-for-trump/
It was just before 7 a.m., and the fog that had settled over the river was beginning to lift. As the sun began to streak through the mist, the men made their way into the labyrinth of buildings where they worked.
In the next hour, their lives would change forever.
From then on, this date in 1977 would be known as Black Monday in the Steel Valley, which stretches from Mahoning and Trumbull counties in Ohio eastward toward Pittsburgh. It is the date when Youngstown Sheet and Tube abruptly furloughed 5,000 workers in one day.
The bleeding never stopped.
Within the next 18 months, US Steel announced that the nation’s largest steel producer was also shutting down 16 plants across the nation, including their Ohio Works in Youngstown, a move that eliminated an additional 4,000 workers here. That announcement came one day before Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp. said they were cutting thousands of jobs at their facilities in the Mahoning Valley, too.
Within a decade, 40,000 jobs were gone. Within that same decade, 50,000 people had left the region, and by the next decade, that number was up to 100,000. Today the 22 miles of booming steel mills and the support industries that once lined the Mahoning River have mostly disappeared — either blown up, dismantled or reclaimed by nature.
If a bomb had hit this region, the scar would be no less severe on its landscape.
“The domino effect of Black Monday went on forever,” said Gary Steinbeck of nearby Warren, Ohio. Steinbeck was working up the river that day from the rolling plant at H.K. Porter, which also later went out of business. “The word spread quickly. Back then there weren’t any cellphones or social media. Good news travels fast, bad news travels at the speed of light. We knew within the hour the guys down the river were hurting, we knew within a day families were hurting, we knew within a week the whole region was suffering,” he said.
“Those numbers only reflect the jobs that were lost in the plant; the ripple effect was equally devastating. Grocery stores, pizza shops, gas stations, restaurants, department stores, car dealerships, barber shops all saw their business plummet and they started closing,” said Steinbeck.
What you are talking about happened in the Midwest region (some folks don't know that), where I lived, it was felt all the way over in the Pacific Northwest region, I lived in a military town at the time as a preteen, and even I knew back then something shifted in how our lives would be. Neighbors used to talk with one another across the fence lines, or over the party lines when you picked up the phone receiver. It wasn't uncommon to know everyone's business before it was printed in the newspapers, but the shift in downsizing and transferring jobs over seas changed how we communicated and "socialized" with one another, and anyone can see the differences of that ripple effect if they remove the blinders, the earmuffs, and the masks (see nothing, hear nothing, say nothing) - just the way a SINGLE GOVERNMENT ENTITY survives. Some folks started to notice it during the Obama administration, but not enough to realize the extent of the damage that was being, and continues to be done to our peoples, our nation, our survival. If we don't take care of our own home, we cannot properly take care of our neighbors either
We lived in Hammond, IN, dad worked in E.Chicago, IN. You are correct. I knew it would be bad having gone through Obumber/Carter.
Donald Trump announces sweeping reciprocal tariffs against ‘friend and foe’ with a 10% minimum. Trump announces sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs against key allies
A 54% total tariff rate against Chinese imports will go into effect on April 9, with tariffs announced against over 100 trading partners
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/03/trump-announces-sweeping-reciprocal-tariffs-against-key-allies/
They have always wanted to kill the middle class they just used to hide it better.
Trumps reciprocal tariffs are going to work for the American citizens, give it time.
You are spot on with this! Trump is truly for the American people at large! Right! We need to Hang tough and strong with him on this one and not buy the leftist hysteria! Let him finish the job! Support him!