He's pushing Bush to support a bailout for the US auto industry before Bush leaves office.
That is typical of financial manipulators that ran the US Auto industry into the ground with their accomplices, the Unions.
His nationalization of major US corporations like General Motors, his cash-for-clunkers program to stimulate the US auto industry and his massive encroachments on the banking and financial industries have done nothing to increase economic growth in the US and indeed, unemployment has reached generational highs.
In the best case, do you still assume that there will have to be layoffs, or for that matter, permanent job loses in the US auto making industry?
Ron is actually the guy who helped us save the auto industry.
It's a kind of thing that all of us who watched the auto industry had been looking for for years and it never happened.
And the actions that he took, working with Congress, saved us from a depression, saved the auto industry in this country from collapse and the loss of another million-plus jobs in addition to the 8 million that were lost as a result of the recession.
In exchange for help -- see, keep in mind, that the administration before us, they had been writing some checks to the auto industry with asking nothing in return.
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His charge to the task force and the decisions that he made were to ensure that the decision he made doesn't add to, but instead -- doesn't add to the pain, but instead puts us on a path towards a different place for the auto industry that has, in many ways, been an icon of our American economy.
You mean Bain capitalist Romney did not want to decimate both Detroit and the Ohio auto industry as you have been telling us?
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And we know that building energy-efficient cars with better gas mileage and cleaner emissions is going to be a big part of us being able to succeed, not only the auto industry, but also succeed in our quest for a better environment.
Cruz says a series of companies have already invested in automotive technology projects there, including US Farathane, a leading source of plastics for the auto industry.
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Cash for Clunkers actually helps all of us -- even those of us who do not participate in the program or work in the auto industry.
Among the US industry's recent woes have been poor results for major auto companies including GM, the biggest carmaker in the world and one of Dana's customers.
We also have with us some legislative leaders who have been champions of not only the auto industry but also the environmental movement, and I want to thank them for being here.
"It makes no sense for us to shovel more money into the problem if you have not seen an auto industry that is committed to restructuring -- restructuring that, frankly, should have been done 10 years ago, 20 years ago, 30 years ago, " he told reporters.
Our entire auto industry was on the verge of collapse and, all told, the prospects of us going into a full-blown depression were very real.
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