McCain and Romney Tangle Over Job Losses in Michigan

''I'm not pessimistic, I'm optimistic,'' Mr. [John McCain] countered at a crowded town hall meeting held in a banquet and dinner theater space in Warren. ''The best and most productive workers in the world reside in the state of Michigan, my friends, and they...

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Published inThe New York times
Main Authors ELISABETH BUMILLER and JOHN M. BRODER, Elisabeth Bumiller reported from Warren, Mich., and John M. Broder from Livonia
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, N.Y New York Times Company 13.01.2008
EditionLate Edition (East Coast)
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McCain, John
Political campaigns
Presidential elections
Primaries & caucuses
Romney, W Mitt
WARREN, Mich
Michigan
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Summary:''I'm not pessimistic, I'm optimistic,'' Mr. [John McCain] countered at a crowded town hall meeting held in a banquet and dinner theater space in Warren. ''The best and most productive workers in the world reside in the state of Michigan, my friends, and they can compete with anybody.'' ''The question is, where is Washington?'' Mr. Romney said, speaking to a gaggle of reporters across from a General Motors transmission plant near Ypsilanti, where 200 layoffs were announced this week. ''Where does it stop? Is there a point at which someone says 'enough'? Or are we going to allow the entire domestic automotive manufacturing industry to disappear?'' In Warren, Mr. McCain said he would be ''ashamed'' to tell voters that the lost jobs would return to Michigan, but he vowed to take care of displaced workers through a promised job retraining program that would be offered through community colleges. ''We are a Judeo-Christian values nation,'' Mr. McCain told the group at the town hall in Warren. ''We cannot leave people behind.''
ISSN:0362-4331