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However, nothing Ryan said in his speech about the plant was factually
untrue.
Ryan stated in his convention speech that "we were about to lose a major
factory" in the town at the time Obama showed up there. And though he
compressed then-Sen. Obama's remarks, Ryan did not distort them.
This is what Obama said at the time: "I believe that if our government
is there to support you, and give you the assistance you need to re-tool
and make this transition, that this plant will be here for another
hundred years."
In October 2008, after the plant's fate was announced, then-Sen. Obama
issued a statement that inched closer to promising to help the factory,
which in its prime employed some 7,000 people. "As president, I will
lead an effort to retool plants like the GM facility in Janesville so we
can build the fuel-efficient cars of tomorrow and create good-paying
jobs in Wisconsin and all across America," Obama said at the time.
The other part of the Ryan speech that Democrats are attacking is the
passage concerning the so-called "Simpson-Bowles" commission, a
bipartisan group empaneled two-and-a-half years ago by Obama to tackle
the deficit.
Obama did not fully adopt the panel's recommendations, which included a
mix of spending cuts and revenue enhancements -- otherwise known as tax
hikes -- to put the country on a path to erase its now-$16 trillion
debt.
"They came back with an urgent report. He thanks them, sent them on
their way, and then did exactly nothing," Ryan said.
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ryan-convention-address/#ixzz259ZWB4PX