· Updated January 16, 2025 12:23 AM · 3 min read read
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Barack Obama showed up at the General Motors factory in Janesville, Wisconsin during the 2008 presidential campaign and proclaimed, "I believe that, if our government is there to support you and give you the assistance you need to retool and make this transition, that this plant will be here for another hundred years."
Instead the plant closed, leaving thousands of its workers and those at related businesses unemployed.
Barack Obama showed up at the General Motors factory in Janesville, Wisconsin during the 2008 presidential campaign and proclaimed, "I believe that, if our government is there to support you and give you the assistance you need to retool and make this transition, that this plant will be here for another hundred years."
Instead the plant closed, leaving thousands of its workers and those at related businesses unemployed.…