Having read the story about the International Trade Commission coming down with the decision to proceed with the trade case investigation against oil country tubular products imported from China, I was elated. I worked at Wheatland Tube Co. for 38 years and there was always someone on top of issues pertaining to illegal dumping by foreign competitors. Early on it was Jim Feeney and at the present it’s Bill Kerins.

People are finally starting to wake up to the fact that communist China is trying to bury us. Almost every industry is being hurt by cheap Chinese products made by slave labor and I hope they bury the ITC with trade cases of their own.

Another problem is the oil companies. They buy this Chinese garbage pipe just so they can go from $45 billion in profits to $60 billion.

It’s not only oil production pipe; it’s all types of pipe — standard, conduit, sprinkler and fence post pipe. And it’s not only pipe.

Businesses that have to buy certain items to make a product should be buying from American manufacturers. We have to keep jobs in the U.S.A.

We can’t keep sending jobs to Mexico, China and elsewhere. If we continue down the path we are on, I pity this country and the next generation, for they are the ones who will suffer the most.

People should sign when someone is passing around a petition or asking for support to try and save the Shenango Valley and its job base. People should do what they can, write to U.S. Reps. Kathy Dahlkemper and Jason Altmire and Sens. Arlen Specter and Bob Casey Jr., telling them to stand up and fight against Chinese imports of any kind.

Animal activists take aim at U.S. agriculture

Speed McCullough, Jefferson Township

I am disappointed that no one has been interested in the outcome of the passage of Proposition 2 in California in the last election. The Humane Society of the United States was a big contributor to the liberal agenda.

If House Speaker Nancy Pelosi realized the impact this legislation would have on the animal agriculture industry, she didn’t express her views before the vote, or maybe didn’t care.

The HSUS operates under the premise of animal “welfare and protection.” It is not involved in the care of stray, abandoned or abused animals.

In a speech at a midwestern political gathering its president said, “If I had my way there would never be another animal killed for food or other human use.”