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(27,677 posts) Thu Dec 1, 2016, 06:44 PM Dec 2016

Dont Forget How Much They Hated President Obama Saving 1.5 Million Auto Jobs (Trump/Carrier)

Furthermore, Vanity Fair notes, the deal signals that rather than address the underlying conditions that have caused the U.S. to lose so many manufacturing jobs, Trump has just signaled he’s open to corporate blackmail instead. That’s corporate blackmail paid for with our tax dollars, of course.

Obama’s auto bailout, on the other hand, arguably saved the entire industry, not a sliver of its workforce.

But let’s get into the job-saving time machine and go back to 2009 when President Obama’s efforts, as Boehlert aptly described it “served as a defining line of GOP attack.” In fact, “The bailout symbolized the dangers of Obama’s alleged socialist/gangster leanings,” Boehlert reminds us.

Remember how Varney this week toasted Trump for having “strong-armed” Carrier? Back in 2009, the host was furious that Obama was allegedly trying strong arm the public into buying American cars: “[N]ow you’re in the position where the government somehow has to coerce or force us all into buying the small cars that it insists Detroit puts out.” (Varney routinely whined that Obama was a “bully” to business.)

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Hannity himself berated Obama for engaging in what he called a “mission to hijack capitalism.” And in the infamous words of Rush Limbaugh, it was as if General Motors and Chrysler “bent over and grabbed the ankles.” (Limbaugh loves Trump’s Carrier deal, by the way.)