Interesting. During the Michigan Primary contest, he was promising Detroit corporate welfare. Huh.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k6KUDv1wzraWhwlBt1
Looks like RINO Romney is trying once again to re position himself as a conservative for 2012.
He’s a slickster, he knows most of the public doesn’t pay attention enough to know that he’s flip flopped a million times, he can have a great debate against himself.
During the primary all he could say was that he “knew how jobs came, and knew how they left” or some other such boilerplate. Now he’s finally figuring out he needs to throw some specifics in there.
Nope. He was proposing more state support for basic research and development in automotive engineering.
Supporting basic research in science and engineering is a legimitate role for the state under most any conservative political philosophy.
No his focus was getting the FEDs and the beauracracy off the back of the auto indusrty allowing them to actually compete.
Romney from a Detriot Economic Speech "Washington has to stop loading Detroit down with unfunded mandates. Of course fleet mileage needs to rise, but discontinuous CAFE [Corporate Average Fuel Economy] leaps, uncoordinated with the domestic manufacturers, and absent consideration of competitiveness, kills jobs and imperils an industry."
From the debate...
Mitt Romney: It's everybody's job. It's inexcusable that Michigan is undergoing a one-state recession, that the rest of the country is growing and seeing low levels of unemployment, but Michigan is seeing ongoing high levels of unemployment, almost twice the national rate. Industry is shrinking here, jobs are going away.
This is just unacceptable, and therefore, everyone's going to have to come together to solve the problem. And that means from the president's standpoint, the president's going to have to stand up and say: You know what? -- to the auto industry -- the door's always open. We're going to work with you and make sure that you have a listening hear and someone who will participate with labor and with management.
Number two, we're going to make sure that we invest in technology and research -- a lot of that relating to energy, fuels; automotive research like material science to help boost Michigan once again. We're going to have to fix the schools; as Newt Gingrich pointed out, 22 percent of Detroit kids don't -- or excuse me -- 22 percent graduate from high school. That's unacceptable. We're also going to have to do a better job keeping our taxes down. Jennifer Granholm has made a big mistake by raising taxes. I was, frankly, a little nervous to -- by being here tonight. I figured that she was going to put a tax on the debate before we got finished. (Laughter, applause, cheers.)
And we're going to have to go work, as well, to make sure that there's a level playing field around the world as we compete, to make sure that American goods are pushing into other markets; that goods coming overseas aren't getting an advantage as they do now with embedded taxes. There's a lot we can do to strengthen Michigan.
And in some respects, what Michigan is seeing the entire nation is going to see unless we take action now to get Michigan stronger.
I am against any bailout unless the UAW and its members take about a 40% haircut on Wages and fringes. The same applies to the AutoMakers.
Why should AMERICANS pay for the corrupt unions bailout if they won’t take a haircut too. Enough is enough.