Re: 'Outrageous': Ex-Obama Official Slams Biden for Joining Union Picket Line

On 27 Sep 2023, Gord Harlington <[email protected]> posted some
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> Nobody messes wih a Biden.  Stupid old man.

The former head of the Obama administration's auto industry task force 
called out President Joe Biden for his Tuesday visit to a United Auto 
Workers strike in Michigan.

"For him to be going on a picket line is outrageous," said Steven Rattner, 
who served as lead adviser to the Presidential Task Force on the Auto 
Industry under former president Barack Obama to oversee the 2009 bailouts 
of auto makers, in an interview with NBC News. "There’s no precedent for 
it. The tradition of the president is to stay neutral in these things."

Biden visited the striking auto workers' picket line for around 12 minutes 
on Tuesday before jetting off to a fundraiser in California with 
billionaires who fund the movement to "abolish policing."

"I get the politics. The progressives all said, ‘We don’t want a mediator; 
we want an advocate,’" Rattner told NBC News. "And he bowed to the 
progressives, and now he’s going out there to put his thumb on the scale. 
And it’s wrong."

Union workers told the Washington Free Beacon they're concerned with 
Biden's visit given his support for electric vehicles. The strike was 
partly precipitated by autoworkers' worries that manufacturers shifting to 
electric vehicle production would lead to layoffs.

"I have a lot of mixed emotions about Biden being here today," Casey 
Rutner, who builds trucks for Ford, said. "I want my job to be here in the 
future, not for me—but I have a son. I had hoped he would work for Ford 
one day too. With electric vehicles, now I'm not so sure."

The union wants the major automakers—Ford, General Motors, and 
Stellantis—to increase pay and guarantee better benefits in the face of 
expanded EV manufacturing.

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