Steel Case

In President John F Kennedy's steel speech he is addressing the economic distress and the increase of the price of steel during that time. Kennedy gripes at companies for raising steel prices in the nations time of need. Kennedy also appeals to a sense of sacrifice and responsibility in order to rally his audience around this superficial cause for outrage. Kennedy then continues to argue that in the rising industry, those companies are the cause of jobs being lost, and that because of them, the country will be further in debt. Kennedy uses various rhetorical strategies throughout this excerpt, the most noticed was his use of Logos, Pathos, and syntax to grab the audience to convey his message across to them.

In his steel speech Kennedy uses logos to get the attention of the reader and explain his purpose through straight facts. "It would seriously handicap our efforts to prevent an inflationary spiral from eating up the pensions of our older citizens and our new gains of purchasing power. (line- 27-31)" Stating this Kennedy explains how the constant raise in the steel prices would not only affect the economy, but it would also affect the Social Security of the elder citizens who are now unable to work, while at the same time keep them unable to buy new land or purchase any form of "power."

This essay also plays off the emotions of the audience as it also regards to how the raising of the price of steel per ton would not only affect the national security but it would also effect the elderly citizens of our nation as well. "It would seriously handicap our efforts to prevent an inflationary spiral from eating up the pensions of our older citizens and our new gains of purchasing power. (line- 27-31)" If the steel causes the economy to collapse so would the social security for the elderly, who are not only unable to work now, but they have worked all their lives and without the money they are getting form the government, it's possible they might not survive iht out food and appliances.

Kennedy then solidifies his speech by using well defined syntax, which will add a sense of urgency to the situation. He constantly addresses the seriousness by using "necessary" and providing solutions to the problem at hand. "And it is necessary to stem it for our national security, if we are going to pay for out security communications abroad. (line 43-44) " This quote shows that we need to take action over the steel industry for progress to come and for the.

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