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Saturday,?May 28, 2011 Hello, everyone. I hope you’re having a safe and enjoyable Memorial Day Weekend.? I’ve got some good news for us today.? Not only is our economy overall growing, but one of the important sectors of our economy is on the rise again: the American automobile industry.? Just a few days ago, on Tuesday, Chrysler Corporation announced that they were repaying the taxpayers for the loans we gave them when we came into office. And this announcement came six years ahead of schedule – and just two years after Chrysler Corporation emerged from bankruptcy. You know, and it’s a sign of what’s happening throughout the American automobile industry. It’s not just Chrysler.? Also this week, GM announced that its Detroit Hamtramck factory will run three shifts for the first time its 26-year history.? You know, that’s 2,500 more good, paying jobs. In the words of Don LaForest, of the UAW – and I want to quote him – he said, “It’s mind-boggling that we can go from near-extinction to full employment in two years.” What you didn’t get to hear in my rendition of his quote is the tone of his voice: It was full of pride. Genuine pride.? Because I can tell you he knows – as my dad used to say - that a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about dignity.? It’s about respect. And I heard the same pride, and the same feeling of dignity, when I called the Jefferson North Chrysler plant in Detroit the day Chrysler paid back its debt.? I talked to a UAW worker – her name was Frances – a line worker, who said her dad had worked on that line before, and that she had been out of work for two-and-a-half years before she was hired a year ago back to the plant. I got the same sense when I went to Bonneville and Son, a Chrysler dealership in Manchester, New Hampshire a couple days ago.? 85 employees came out, stood out there in the lot with me.? 85 people. All of whom knew and said, had Chrysler liquidated, had we not helped them, they wouldn’t have a job. When President Oba