Tonight in freeport, illinois. Everybody should play by the same rules. Sensata workers have played by the rules for years. Helped the Company Become hugely profitable. And now they will pay the price. 170 families will now have to find work, health care, and Retirement Security someplace else. Well show you the local impact and how republican Economic Policy has devastated the middle class all across the country. And the economic stakes in this election play out in freeport, illinois. The sensata plant is ground zero in the economic differences between governor romney and president obama. Good evening, americans. Welcome to the ed show. Great to have you with us tonight. From freeport, illinois. Tonight we are in the belly of the beast of mitt romneys economy. The story of the romney economy can be told with 200 jobs here in this small town of illinois, freeport. Now, its important to know, i think how all of this happened. Were going to tell that story tonight. Its important to under
they could lose their health care, too. romney has repeatedly vowed to repeal the affordable care act, obama care, which would devastate millions of hardworking american, young adults would be kicked off their parents insurance plans. folks with pre-existing conditions would be out of luck. and i have to ask you, how much more can american workers take? the way it s set up right now, if the republicans get control of the government, they will take away what americans have worked for. they don t like obama care. they want to take away from people. they want to take away insurance from 30 million americans, take away insurance from people under 25 years old who could be on their parents plan. take away insurance from people because they have a pre-existing condition. is that the america you want to live in? i m joined tonight by two sensata workers. joanne penniston is with us and also bonnie borman. i m also joined tonight by fred redmond, international vice president for human affair
issues. what happens if your health care, if health care is repealed in this country? what happens to you? i will be i m going to have a hard time finding a job now, and if health care s repealed, i won t be able to continue the, you know, having the health care that i have right now. and i still have some issues with my back. so i probably will have them for the rest of my life. you know, what happens when health care gets repealed? it just doubles the problems you re going to have. bonnie, you re 23 years old. your daughter is on your health insurance. if she gets kicked off, what does that mean for her? it means she will have to use the state-funded insurance.
doesn t understand the economy. yet there is another story in this town where the tire plant was saved because of what he did with china. fred, what about that? that s right. because of president obama putting tariffs on foreign tires coming into the country, we was able to save the plant here in freeport. so i want america to capture this. romney s economic plan has played out by the shutting down of a plant here in freeport, illinois, but barack obama s policies in going after, being tough on china, has saved the tire plant in this town? and even had the nerve to call out barack obama and call him a protectionist when he saved the jobs around freeport and the country and the tire entry. ed, this is not a person who deserves to be president. this is not a person who s going to stand up for working families in this country. and what we have to do is expose mitt romney for what it is and do everything we can to re-elect this president. fred, joanne, and bonnie, great to have you
0 great to have you with us tonight. from freeport, illinois. tonight we are in the belly of the beast of mitt romney s economy. the story of the romney economy can be told with 200 jobs here in this small town of illinois, freeport. now, it s important to know, i think how all of this happened. we re going to tell that story tonight. it s important to understand the plea coming from the community to stop it. this is your new america, unless you do something about it. we came here to broadcast outside the sensata auto parts plant here in freeport. sensata closed the doors of the plant for the entire weekend. the entrances are barricaded. workers were told not to report. none of these workers will report to the factory when it closes in december. those jobs, they re headed a long way away. a place called china. we have a huge conversation going on in this country right now about jobs. the guy who wants to take the tell that to the guy who lost his job because it went overseas. the vic