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KentuckyWoman

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9. The last time we were a manufacturing powerhouse...
Fri May 23, 2025, 08:06 PM
May 23

The US government allowed them to shit up the land and waterways. There's an EPA superfund site not far from where I live that is slated to be monitored for the next 100 years. For plant that was only there 30 years.

They want to take it back to that era.

And I say this with no joy. I'm raised in a union household. Married a union man. Thank the people who fought so hard for any comfort in retirement I have. Growth in manufacturing can hopefully strengthen unions... and I am ALL for that.

But we cannot bring factories back without the environmental controls.

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