I was at the grocery store the other day wondering what it’s like to be a millionaire who can afford ground beef when a thought popped into my head: “You know what would fix these high food prices? A new steel mill in Iowa that will not start running until 2030 at the earliest!”

Well, just a day later, on Sept. 28, my prayers were answered. President Donald Trump addressed the small portion of Americans who still have enough money for internet service and announced that a company owned by an Indian conglomerate will build a $15 billion steel plant in Iowa. One where steel production, according to a Wall Street Journal report, “could begin in 2030.” 

With midterm elections fast approaching, this is excellent news for voters who have cars that run on steel that won’t appear for at least four years. 

“Two years ago our country was dead, and now we have the hottest country anywhere in the world, and it’s not even close,” Trump declared. (It wasn’t clear if the “it’s not even close” was........

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