UAW President responds to Ryan speech

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UAW president calls Ryan comments on GM plant 'ludicrous'

By David Shepardson
Detroit News Washington Bureau


From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120830/AUTO01/208300452#ixzz253KzUWHM


Washington - United Auto Workers President Bob King blasted the comments of GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan, who suggested that the Obama administration was to blame for closing an auto plant in 2008 - before he took office.

Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, chairman of the House Budget Committee, suggested Wednesday night at the Republican National Convention that President Obama was to blame for General Motors closing its Janesville assembly plant in December 2008.

"A lot of guys I went to high school with worked at that GM plant. Right there at that plant, candidate Obama said: 'I believe that if our government is there to support you … this plant will be here for another hundred years.' That's what he said in 2008," Ryan told delegates Wednesday night in Tampa. "Well, as it turned out, that plant didn't last another year.It is locked up and empty to this day.And that's how it is in so many towns today, where the recovery that was promised is nowhere in sight."

King called Ryan's comments "so ludicrous - you know the facts"

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From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120830/AUTO01/208300452#ixzz253KrjeT0

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I always forget to do that.