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Missouriens. >> what was the mood like among your fellow workers? >> oh, boy. it was pretty bad. pretty bad. people in the same situation. worked there 20 years. >> when it closed, all but completed collapse of industry that at one point employed 15,000 people in the st. louis area. a former auto worker said when the line was humming, you couldnt hear themselves think. now the only sound is demolition machines tearing it down. >> out of work for four months, he took a bail-out funded retraining ...

When you look at how successful gm and chrysler were helped through their bankruptcy by the government, gm sales were up 11% in the last year. that is good. even better, chrysler up 35%, and the focus one when will the taxpayer get paid back, drew, taxpayer support, $85 billion into these two companies and in terms of jobs, the administration saying 1.1 million jobs could have been lost if the administration hadnt step in, drew. >> you know, and something that i havent heard from, you know, this...

Japan, police say the former auto worker drove into a group of folks outside the plant killing one of them. ten others injured. local reports indicate factory officials had fired the guy back in april. a spokesman for the car company couldnt confirm that cops caught up to the suspect about an hour later. charged him with attempted murder. turkey, kurdish rebels detonating a remote controlled bomb near a bus in istanbul. officials say the bus was filled with military personnel and their families....

Wisconsin and the shut down janesville, gm plant and tell me that the guys who are sitting there begging for work want to stay on unemployment. the american work force is different than that. a different work ethic here. >> brenda: we have great sympathy for the people who are unemployed and it could be any of us. the presidents own assistant treasury secretary says that unemployment insurance causes the unemployed to stay unemployed longer. >> yeah. >> brenda: toby? >> larry summers, god bless ...

Step into that voting booth tomorrow. how many people you bring to make sure they vote. do not fall into the easy s cynicism that says your vote doesnt matter. all politicians are the same. thats what special interests and lobbyists, my opponents, hillarys opponents think. so you dont go vote. your vote matters. there are states i won two votes a precinct. thats how i won that state. your voice matters, your voice make as difference i have heard it. for all the tough lessons i have learned durin...

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