With ten days left until the potential Government Shutdown, the house fired the first shot in the battle over the budget. Lawmakers passed a bill to keep the government running until mid december. But it takes money away from president obama i am momen imple Health Reform law. Problem talked about the days votes when he stopped at a ford plant in kansas city, missouri. Im not going to allow anyone to harm this countrys reputation. Im not going to allow them to inflict economic pain on millions of people just so they can make an ideological point. But i need you to help. I need you to Tell Congress to pay our bills on time. Stop governoring from crisis to crisis. Put our focus back on where it should be. On you. The american people. Mike viqueira joins us live from washington, and mike, look. For the president i dont know if there is any hope of him getting any socalled grand bargain, but the question is there there any bargain available for this president from the house. Reporter most
And circumstances continue to move and in undesirable direction. I want to tell you it is because the japanese side denied the existence of such an agreement or understanding, which was reached 40 years ago, and certainly this is an acceptable , ashe chinese side, because i said before, this is a historical fact. In spite of this, we are still ready to sit down and have dialogues with the japanese side to find jointly away to control, manage the current situation. But the japanese said to us there is no such dispute the between china and japan, and that has made it impossible for dialogues to happen. China and japan are perpetual neighbors. The two countries have very close business ties. Sit downill ready to and have dialogue with the japanese side, but first the japanese side needs to recognize there is such a dispute. Of the whole world knows there is a dispute here. I believe there will be a day when the japanese come back to this table and dialogue. So, how things will go next is
Were closing their doors five years ago, plants like this were closing their doors. Manufacturing,f the Auto Industry was flatlining. Its own standing on feet and made smart decisions, andalan will tell you if gm chrysler had gone down, suppliers would go down, dealers would have gone down. All of that wouldve had a propellant had a profound impact on ford. I refuse to let that happen. We work with labor and management. Everybody put some skin in the game. We bet on the american worker. Today that that has paid off because the american Auto Industry has come roaring back. [applause] the big three are all profitable hiring new workers, not just building more cars. You are building better cars and trucks. Look at what is going on at the plant. F1 50 is built tougher and more fuel efficient than ever. [applause] you have trouble making them fast enough. You had to bring on a third shift of 900 workers to keep up with demand. [applause] invested 1. 1 billion in this plant, pretty new worke