Why Did Paul Ryan LIE about Janesville Plant Closing??

What did Ryan say that was actually a lie? The plant continued to employ workers in assembly of Isuzu vehicles until June of 2009.

Obama, on the other hand, pledged to the workers 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.” Wow! Corporatism! Rent-seeking! Government controlling the means of production!

But you’re not thinking very well at all. The plant actually did close sometime after Obama’s speech. How does that make Ryan’s claim that Obama pledged to work for a bright future for the plant a lie? Whether it closed when Bush or Obama was a president is inconsequential: Obama simply had no business campaigning to plant workers by instilling in them some false hope that trheir plant might be spared if only government would “support” them with “assistance.”

Ryan explicitly stated that when Obama spoke at the plant, it was already in trouble. He’s not running from that fact. He’s simply observing that the campaign rhetoric and what Obama actually delivered — even with a huge GM bailout that taxpayers will remain on the hook for for billions of dollars! — don’t match each other. The company sucked and even extraordinary government intervention couldn’t substantiate whatever hope the campaigner instilled in those workers that day.