The first in a series of Congressional hearings focusing on the shutdowns of three local refineries was held yesterday at Neumann University in Aston.
You can read Kathleen Carey’s account of the session here.
U.S. Rep. Pat Meehan, R-7, of Drexel Hill, brought his House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence to review the “implications” of the closures.
Those guys in the bright blue baseball shirts with the yellow sleeves could have told them all about the “implications.”
They are members of the United Steelworkers Union who used to be employed there.
For them, this is about homeland security all right, just not the kind Meehan and the other pols and experts were talking about.
Instead, this is the kind of homeland security that his achieved with a good paycheck that can support a middle-class family.
Spare me the talk about gas prices, how much fuel is available and where it comes from.
This is about a way of life. One that is disappearing in front of our eyes.
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