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Sonic (and Verano) are in focus as CBS News asks: "Is auto bailout Romney's Achilles' heel?
(CBS News) LAKE ORION, MICHIGAN - Brad Glende is a team leader on the assembly line at the General Motors plant in Orion, Michigan. He is one of 1,800 workers at a plant that stood idle two years ago during the depths of the economic downturn. Now the plant north of Detroit churns out 800 cars a day on two shifts, and Glende credits the federal government bailout of GM.
"Morale is fantastic. People are really glad to be back to work and building a great product," Glende said during a CBS News visit to the plant this week (2/18).
At Orion, where 500 small Chevrolet Sonic sedans and hatchbacks and 300 Buick Veranos roll off the assembly line daily, plant manager Steve Brock credits the Obama administration's emergency financing - around $80 billion in loans to the industry in 2009.
"The support of the government is much appreciated by all of us in General Motors," Brock said in an interview. "It enabled us to comeback, and we're gonna work hard each and every day to prove the point that it was worthwhile and a good thing to do for the people here within General Motors and also the U.S."
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Is auto bailout Romney's Achilles' heel? - CBS News