WEBVTT - Rush Limbaugh August 15th 2018

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<v Speaker 1>The Wall Street Journal says that new life has suddenly

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<v Speaker 1>come to Granite City, Illinois. Now. Two years ago, under Obama,

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<v Speaker 1>the United States Steel Corporation scaled down operations. Fifteen hundred

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<v Speaker 1>workers were laid off. Those layoffs had a ripple effect.

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<v Speaker 1>Other businesses suffered to like companies that sold work boots

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<v Speaker 1>or delivered lunches to hungry employees. Within a year of

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<v Speaker 1>US Steel scaling back, twenty six other businesses closed. Granite City,

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<v Speaker 1>population thirty thousand, was crushed. But then President Trump announced

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<v Speaker 1>he was imposing tariffs on foreign steel imports, on products

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<v Speaker 1>made by companies that are often highly subsidized by foreign governments,

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<v Speaker 1>and suddenly things changed. US Steel announced that one of

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<v Speaker 1>the furnaces they'd shut down would be fired up again.

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<v Speaker 1>Five hundred workers were called back to work, some as

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<v Speaker 1>early as this week. Average salary is close to sixty

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<v Speaker 1>thousand dollars. Meanwhile, in The Washington Post, Katrina Van den

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<v Speaker 1>Huvel urged readers not to be fooled by Trump's tariffs

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<v Speaker 1>because he's running a con. It's typical left wing bs

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<v Speaker 1>written by somebody who never spent a day in her

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<v Speaker 1>life at a steel mill or worrying about paying the

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<v Speaker 1>bills after being laid off from that good steel mill job. Katrina,

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<v Speaker 1>don't worry that people of Granite City and other towns

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<v Speaker 1>like it know exactly who's running the con and it

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<v Speaker 1>isn't President Trump. It's all of you people on the

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<v Speaker 1>left who've been telling these people you're looking out for

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<v Speaker 1>him when you don't care a whit about them.