Carnegie Steel, Homestead, PA, ca. 1910

It’s simple, Marx had it right: yinz can’t have a socialist revolution if that pesky middle class (bourgeois) is in the way, na’t!”

SO, let’s try to kill it:
Democrats Blamed After U.S. Steel Cancels $1.5B Project in Pennsylvania

…“The lack of support, and frankly open hostility from some elected officials means the loss of four-million construction man-hours, approximately 1,000 full time union construction jobs and threatens in the longer term 3,000 steel workers,” Melcher said. “It’s absolutely unacceptable that any politician or business or community leader who claims to be supportive of union jobs and a strong middle class can allow this project to be lost.”…

I, frankly, expect nothing less from Allegheny County and the City of Pittsburgh for that matter. It’s far easier to control a bunch of mindless, barely making it, soy-boys in skinny jeans than construction and steel workers who are making a great wage. $1.5 billion? How many soy lattes is that?

This was done on purpose.

Enjoy yinz’s open!