This seems like a wobbly plank for conservatives to walk.
Maybe the plant NEEDS to be CLOSED?!
If their only plan is to retool it to make Volts (or SUVs) that aren’t selling right now, then keep it closed.
OTOH, if Romney/Ryan are going to roll back CAFE and enable new domestic oil production to make SUVs and Pickups profitable and popular again, then it could be years before that impacts the plant and its workers.
IOW, Ryan’s pitch reinforces the anti-conservative idea that the POTUS can just wave a wand and keep jobs going.
It shouldn’t work that way. The POTUS should get government out of the way, and there will be pain for workers until the market catches up.
The point, taken context, was that Obama’s stimulus FAILED. It did not do what he promised it would do. Didn’t you watch the speech?