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Barack Obama: “When the naysayers said we should just let the American auto industry vanish and take hundreds of thousands of jobs down…”

On the recordSeptember 5, 2010
When the naysayers said we should just let the American auto industry vanish and take hundreds of thousands of jobs down with it, we said we'd stand by them if they made the tough choices necessary to compete once again.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Press Release: Remarks of President Barack Obama at the Milwaukee Laborfest in Milwaukee

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