Comments by "spaceflight101" (@spaceflight1019) on "Peter Santenello" channel.

  1. 40 years ago "learning to code" wasn't a thing yet. We were told that jobs in healthcare and education were the future. So, we became healthcare system workers as UPMC replaced the manufacturing sector. Then along came USAir. Remember them? Allegheny County built an entirely new airport, on the taxpayers' dime, to satisfy the desires of the airline. Those of us who hadn't moved away became aviation mechanics and baggage handlers. We watched the "weekday warriors" fly out of Pittsburgh to their jobs in Atlanta and Charlotte... until they got smart and moved there. Useless Air abandoned Pittsburgh for Charlotte, then went bankrupt after the bosses stole the worker's pension money.
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  2.  @dukecraig2402  Isn't it strange that protective tariffs worked in every country except the United States?
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  3. ​ @televisionsux After the war, the mills actually had baseball teams. My father played on the Homestead Works team. He worked at Homestead from 1940 until it closed. He was a bricklayer. I started in May of 1978, qualified for the Instrument Repairman apprenticeship, and made a career of the trade when I was laid off in October 1981.
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  4.  @farzana6676  Before the income tax, the federal government was funded by tariffs. Every country in the world except the United States uses tariffs to protect its domestic industries and agriculture. Would you like to pay more for everything you buy just to have it made domestically? I don't think so.
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  5. Homestead Works alumni here. Most of the places I worked at since 1975 are long gone... Union Switch and Signal. Westinghouse East Pittsburgh. U.S. Steel Homestead Works. Elrama Power Station. Cheswick Power Station. All gone.
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  6. Did you see the news, that Cleveland Cliffs is going to be building electrical transformers in Weirton?
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  7. ​ @glessdawish848 The jobs went to Japan, not Korea.
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  8. ​ @PMMagro The plants were built first, and the towns grew around them.
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  9. Welcome to Braddock, Pennsylvania, home of Sen. John Fetterman. He lives across from the steel mill, above the closed Superior Motors restaurant. The stacks are what's left of the old 45" mill soaking pits. I worked at Homestead Works from May 1978 to October 1981. Air quality began to improve in 1959 when electrostatic precipitator technology became commonplace. We lived in West Mifflin and we had the windows open all summer and my mom hung clothes outside. It hasn't been "hell with the lid off" since the second world war ended. When ET was built in 1875 the area was farmland. Clairton is the same way. The towns, populated by Eastern European immigrants, grew up around the towns.
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  10. I highly recommend that you read "Out Of This Furnace" to get the real story about how the steel industry shaped western Pennsylvania. My family has lived in the area since 1885, and I was a fourth generation steelworker, Homestead Works alumni. By the time the industry began to collapse I was three years into a four year apprenticeship, Instrument Repairman, and I didn't have to move away to stay employed.
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  11.  @seancrowley1065  Either get the history right or STFU? Simple enough for you?
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  12.  @seancrowley1065  Either get the history right or STFU.
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