Obama to GM Orion Workers: 'You Are Proving All The Skeptics Wrong'
President Barack Obama and South Korea President Lee Myung-bak tell a crowd of autoworkers a trade agreement between the two countries will support 70,000 jobs.
President Barack Obama told a crowd of Orion Township autoworkers on Friday afternoon that a new trade agreement with South Korea will help maintain their jobs and create new ones. He then received a roar of applause when he told the crowd of about 380 that they were "proving all the skeptics wrong." His visit to the General Motors Orion Assembly plant, which produces the Chevy Sonic and Buick Verano, comes on the heels of Congress's approval of the free-trade agreement. South Korean President Lee Myung-bak accompanied Obama. The two toured the plant and spoke to a crowd of about 380 plant workers and GM executives. Lee, speaking through a translator, told the crowd he was "deeply impressed" by the way they operate the Orion factory. "I'm …
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kidcat24
7:23 am on Monday, October 31, 2011
I sure wish "It's a global world" hadn't been shoved down our throats for the last ten years. If you keep saying it over and over the people just accept it. more ›