You are correct. Here is what he said at the Detroit Economic Club:
“If we are going to be the world’s greatest economic power, we must invest in our future. It’s time to be bold. . . .First, I will make a five-fold increase from $4 billion dollars to $20 billion dollars in our national investment in energy research, fuel technology, materials science, and automotive technology.”
As I recall, he promised the Detroit automakers the use of my tax money.
Feel free to document anything that you believe disproves that.
He promised to spend $20 billion instead of $4 billion on pie in the sky projects that would have been a money transfer.
The whole idea is to get the government’s hands off, not:
“I will roll up my sleeves in the first 100 days I’m in office, and I will personally bring together industry, labor, congressional, and state leaders and together we will develop a plan to rebuild America’s automotive leadership,” he said to applause.
Maelstrom is one of the hardliners against Mitt, no matter what. If he sneezed and Mitt said God bless you he would take it as blasphemy.
I like Mitt myself.