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Santorum Attacks Bush, Obama and Romney Over GM and Chrysler Bailout
Another day, another presidential candidate of the Republican Party remembers the 2009 U.S. automotive industry bailout and declares his disdain by saying that both the country and the carmakers would be better off without it. So what else is new? Well, Rick Santorum managed to attack not only President Barack Obama, but also his predecessor in the White House, George W. Bush and “fellow†Republican candidate Mitt Romney – all during the same speech he made at the Detroit Economic Club today.
Predictably, Santorum, like Romney, said that both General Motors and Chrysler would be “alive and equally as well, or better off, than they are now," adding "the markets would have reacted to restructure it to be more competitive.â€
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Sergio Marchionne And Obama's Campaign Rebuke Romney's Jeep To China Accusations
The battle for the 2012 U.S. elections has spilled over the automobile industry after Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney told an Ohio crowd last week that Jeep is planning to move all of its production to China, while also airing an ad that...
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Obama Campaign Releases New Ads Touting Auto Bailout
While George W. Bush was the one to initiate the auto industry bailout in 2008, it is President Barack Obama who is trying to capitalize on it with the release of two new television advertisements as part of his reelection campaign. In the first spot,...
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Obama Campaign Airs 'made In America' Ad Touting Auto Bailout
If you have been following the news in the U.S. these past few weeks, you will have no doubt noticed that all Republican presidential candidates have attacked the Obama administration for the way it handled the auto industry bailout. Now it's time...
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Uaw Says Romney Is Misleading Voters On 2009 Bailout
Republican presidential candidates seem to have locked in the 2009 U.S. automotive industry bailout by the federal government as a means to raise votes in the primaries. Yet the Democrats aren’t the only ones who dismiss the Republicans’...
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Obama: Auto Industry Bailout Was The Right Thing To Do
President Barack Obama is using GM's recent loan repayment and Chrysler's operating profit as proof that his "unpopular" auto bailout decision was the right thing to do. "I knew this wasn't a popular decision. But it was the...
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