Left-wing partisans and liberal media allies continue to cast GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan a liar when Ryan spoke at the Republican National Convention that was held last week in Tampa regarding his statements about General Motors (GM) plant in Janesville, Wisconsin.
Since the end of the RNC Convention and continues today, democrats, liberals and surprisingly, a republican state that Paul Ryan blamed President Obama for a GM factory closing in Janesville, Wisconsin when the factory was scheduled to close prior to Obama taking office.
Problem is; Ryan never said that but referenced a campaign “promise” that was stated by then candidate, President Obama in 2008.
What Paul Ryan had noted was that Obama had failed to keep his promise to autoworkers in his hometown of Janesville, Wisconsin. Wisconsin GOP Gov. Scott Walker also stated the same thing.
From Ryan’s speech at the convention, Ryan stated, “President Barack Obama came to office during an economic crisis, as he has reminded us a time or two. Those are very tough days. And any fair measure of his record has to take that into account. My own state voted for President Obama. When he talked about change, many people liked the sound of it, especially in Janesville where we were about to lose a major factory.”
“A lot of guys I went to high school with worked at that G.M. plant. Right there at that plant, candidate Obama said, “I believe that if our government is there to support you, this plant will be here for another 100 years.”
“That’s what he said in 2008,” said Ryan. “Well, as it turned out, that plant didn’t last another year. It is locked up and empty to this day and that’s how it is in so many towns where the recovery that was promised is nowhere in sight. Right now, 23 million men and women are struggling to find work…23 million people unemployed or underemployed. Nearly one in six Americans is in poverty. Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life.”
“Half of them can’t find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here’s the question, without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?”
Ryan had described the plants history and where it stands now when he said, “Right there at that plant, candidate Obama said, “I believe that if our government is there to support you, this plant will be here for another 100 years. That’s what he said in 2008. Well, as it turned out, that plant didn’t last another year. It is locked up and empty to this day.”
In reference to “locked up and empty to this day”, Ryan’s reference was taken from a report by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel back in the fall of 2011.
In that report by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the report stated, “General Motors Co. has committed to reopen its idled plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee, and keep its shuttered assembly plant in Janesville on standby status…since they were shut down in 2009, both the Janesville and Tennessee plants have been on standby status, meaning they were not producing vehicles, but they were not completely shut down.”
A citizen from Janesville confirmed that the plant closed in 2009. “I'm from Janesville, WI. My entire family lives there. I know when the GM plant closed. Obama was definitely in office. #TruthHurts—Chelsea Grunwald (@chelseagrunwald) August 30, 2012”
While the liberal media and Left-wing partisans continue to misrepresent the facts of what Paul Ryan stated; Henry Payne of the National Review Online had this to say prior to the GOP convention, “But the Left misses the point. Under Obamanomics, the government picks winners and losers. Obama promised Janesville would be a winner even as his economic policies guaranteed it would always be a loser. Indeed, Obama’s whole 2008 Janesville speech is a sobering road map for the job-killing policies he has put in place as president.”
Comments