Romney Argues That It Was Wrong To Save The Auto Industry And Over One Million Jobs

The US Government became the lender of last resort to the auto industry when it was unable to secure private investments. Today there are 1.45 million Americans who have jobs and GM is again the largest auto company in the world. The antigovernment furor of the GOP forces Romney and other candidates to tell its base that this was the wrong thing to do. Allowing the auto industry to fail, even if it ruined the economy, is part of an outdated ideology that has infected American society. Even smart people like Mitt Romney are forced to act dumb in order to placate the demands of its supporters who are true believers in Social Darwinism. His message has little appeal in Detroit, but the GOP's base is in rural Michigan where anti-union sentiment is just another part of its fundamentalism.