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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Tue Oct 9, 2012, 11:39 AM Oct 2012

Paul Ryan tells Detroit things would be better under the 'Let Detroit go bankrupt' guy

Source: Daily Kos

Paul Ryan, at a Michigan campaign event:

"We lost four auto factories in the area I represent in just the last four years," Ryan said. "We lost our plant, our GM plant in Janesville, our Chrysler Kenosha plant, we lost two Delphi plants in Oak Creek. Trust me, I come from Detroit West. We know we need a healthy auto sector. I come from a GM town, and as we said in Janesville, we've always said—as GM goes, so goes Janesville."

"Well, we've all gotten knocked down. We've seen some carnage in the auto sector. Know this: we want the strongest auto sector…We lost 38,000 manufacturing jobs just in the last two months. Over 10,000 of them came from auto. The good news is if you put the right people in place and get the right policies in place, we can turn this around."

I'm sorry. Paul Ryan is playing second fiddle to whom? Mitt Romney. And Mitt Romney's plan for Detroit was what? To let it go bankrupt. To skip the step where the government helped GM and Chrysler survive long enough to restructure and just let them die right then and there in late 2008 and early 2009. Luckily for workers all up and down the auto supply chain, and for small business owners in auto towns, that didn't happen. Mitt Romney wasn't president, Barack Obama was president, and Obama made sure the American auto industry survived.

Read more: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/09/1142042/-Paul-Ryan-tells-Detroit-things-would-be-better-under-the-Let-Detroit-go-bankrupt-guy

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Paul Ryan tells Detroit things would be better under the 'Let Detroit go bankrupt' guy (Original Post) DonViejo Oct 2012 OP

Classic example of Ryan using euphemisms for draconian approaches... HereSince1628 Oct 2012 #1

I am sure there strong union membership, will be wrorking overtime Tippy Oct 2012 #2

Oh no he didn't!!!!! skeewee08 Oct 2012 #3

Paul Ryan did nothing for the Kenosha plant or any of the others. EC Oct 2012 #4

He also managed to ruin my commute home navarth Oct 2012 #5

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)

1. Classic example of Ryan using euphemisms for draconian approaches...

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Oct 9, 2012, 11:46 AM

Oct 2012

The right people are low wage workers without benefits, ...the right policies are anti-union policies.

Tippy

(4,610 posts)

2. I am sure there strong union membership, will be wrorking overtime

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Oct 9, 2012, 11:47 AM

Oct 2012

For President Obama

skeewee08

(1,983 posts)

3. Oh no he didn't!!!!!

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Oct 9, 2012, 12:00 PM

Oct 2012

he really erks me....

EC

(12,287 posts)

4. Paul Ryan did nothing for the Kenosha plant or any of the others.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Oct 9, 2012, 12:53 PM

Oct 2012

As far as they were concerned these were heavy UNION jobs so he didn't care a bit if they left. Every time American Motors (Chrysler) was in trouble - while Ryan was representative for our area, he did nothing.

navarth

(5,927 posts)

5. He also managed to ruin my commute home

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Oct 9, 2012, 01:17 PM

Oct 2012

I couldn't figure out why we were sitting through 3 green lights...accident? What? And I was in a place where it wouldn't do me a whole lot of good to turn back, so I was pretty much stuck until whatever it was got cleaned up.

Then, when I saw the huge line of police motorcycles coming up, I realized it: that fucking Paul Ryan, that lying asshole, is the reason why this traffic isn't moving. Oh joy.

I looked for a proper vehicle to give the middle finger to, but as one might expect, it wasn't easy to discern which car had Lyin' Ryan in it.

Grrrrrrr......

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