Real journalists are curious tonight about why Mr. Slagle, the Toledo who *stars* in this Obama ad is employed and that his employment history on Facebook has mysteriously disappeared since he was questioned.
This looks like another one of those "jobs saved" dealios, except we'll never really know since nature didn't really take its course as far as the auto industry was involved.
The Toledo Blade crows in this article that the suffering included real sacrifice, like giving up overtime, and that these ads should really benefit their guy, Mr. Obama:
Critics say taxpayers are still out $23 billion on the deal, that creditors and shareholders were not fairly treated, that it added to the national debt, and that the United Auto Workers received generous treatment as political payback for their support of Mr. Obama. UAW leaders say employees shared in the pain, giving up at least $7,000 annually each in the form of lost overtime, a canceled cost-of-living raise, and work-rule concessions.ABC notes this:
Republicans are trying to chip away at President Obama’s success with the auto industry by bringing attention to a battery maker that took stimulus money and then laid off workers.Apparently "saving" something means throwing money at it and then claiming you "saved" it, no matter if they lose jobs or are still financially on the diseased list. More to come on that.
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