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UAW President Bob King: Mitt Romney Would Not Have Saved Us
United Auto Workers President Bob King is out with a statement slapping down Mitt Romneys claim that he deserves credit for saving the auto industry by recommending they go through bankruptcy. King notes that there was no private financing available in the midst of the 2008 and 2009 crisis to keep them afloat, meaning that without billions of dollars of government loans opposed by Romney the car companies would have likely been liquidated.
His full statement, below:
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/uaw-president-bob-king-mitt-romney-would-not
United Auto Workers President Bob King is out with a statement slapping down Mitt Romneys claim that he deserves credit for saving the auto industry by recommending they go through bankruptcy. King notes that there was no private financing available in the midst of the 2008 and 2009 crisis to keep them afloat, meaning that without billions of dollars of government loans opposed by Romney the car companies would have likely been liquidated.
His full statement, below:
Statement by UAW President Bob King on Mitt Romney and the recovery of the domestic auto industry
The Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, is taking credit for the success of the American auto industry, yet he opposed federal loans for U.S. automakers loans that ultimately saved more than a million American jobs in a 2009 New York Times editorial, Let Detroit Go Bankrupt.
Romney has been vocally opposed to the auto loans for the past 3 years. He criticized President Obama as recently as February, 2012 in his opinion article in the Detroit News saying, The president tells us that without his intervention things in Detroit would be worse. I believe that without his intervention things there would be better. But now hes claiming credit for President Obamas intervention to save the industry.
President Obama and Democrats in Congress provided emergency bridge loans for an auto industry that was a casualty of a collapsed credit market, when no private investors or companies would provide financing.
The loans which were predicated on painful sacrifices by workers, management and other stakeholders enabled the companies to return quickly to profitability and repay the loans years ahead of schedule.
Moreover, the industry has added more than 200,000 jobs in the last few years and 2011 was the strongest year of industry job growth since 1994. None of this would have happened if Romney had been the one making the decisions.
The successful recovery of the American auto industry is a great national success story that most Americans are very proud of. Its an example of how business, labor and the government can work together to find solutions to some of the nations most difficult problems. Mitt Romneys values of profits-over-people are wrong for Michigan, wrong for workers and wrong for all Americans who value hard work, shared sacrifice and shared prosperity.
The Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, is taking credit for the success of the American auto industry, yet he opposed federal loans for U.S. automakers loans that ultimately saved more than a million American jobs in a 2009 New York Times editorial, Let Detroit Go Bankrupt.
Romney has been vocally opposed to the auto loans for the past 3 years. He criticized President Obama as recently as February, 2012 in his opinion article in the Detroit News saying, The president tells us that without his intervention things in Detroit would be worse. I believe that without his intervention things there would be better. But now hes claiming credit for President Obamas intervention to save the industry.
President Obama and Democrats in Congress provided emergency bridge loans for an auto industry that was a casualty of a collapsed credit market, when no private investors or companies would provide financing.
The loans which were predicated on painful sacrifices by workers, management and other stakeholders enabled the companies to return quickly to profitability and repay the loans years ahead of schedule.
Moreover, the industry has added more than 200,000 jobs in the last few years and 2011 was the strongest year of industry job growth since 1994. None of this would have happened if Romney had been the one making the decisions.
The successful recovery of the American auto industry is a great national success story that most Americans are very proud of. Its an example of how business, labor and the government can work together to find solutions to some of the nations most difficult problems. Mitt Romneys values of profits-over-people are wrong for Michigan, wrong for workers and wrong for all Americans who value hard work, shared sacrifice and shared prosperity.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/uaw-president-bob-king-mitt-romney-would-not
Isn't it time that someone from the Romney campaign to step in and tell him he looks like an idiot pushing this lie?
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UAW President Bob King: Mitt Romney Would Not Have Saved Us (Original Post)
ProSense
May 2012
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zbdent
(35,392 posts)1. Mitt Romney would have been throwing rocks at the head popping out of the life preserver ...
"Here, sir. Have an anvil."
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)2. Thanks.
K & R