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March 05, 2016 10:10
Hillary Clinton serenades Detroit workers in new bargain speech

The Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton,  heaped praise on Michigan businesses and economic progress in Detroit on Friday. She also proposed an economic policy proposal in a campaign stop at an auto parts factory.

Clinton addressed the people at the Detroit Manufacturing Systems on the west side of the city. She was promising  federal measures to force corporations into keeping and creating manufacturing jobs in the US states of America.

Clinton said that, \\\"I deliberately chose to come to Detroit and to this company to talk about jobs because I want more people to see what\\\'s happening in Southwest Detroit and Midtown and Eastern Market.\\\"

\\\"New businesses are opening. Families are moving in. The street lights are on again. The buses and running again. There is a palpable feeling of pride and community and we have to spread economic revitalization to all of Detroit\\\'s neighborhoods.\\\"

During her speech, She named a number of Michigan business and highlighting investment and innovation efforts across the state.

\\\"Innovation is on the rise, Between the car makers and suppliers, the clean energy sector, the defense corridor, high-tech firms in Ann Arbor, cutting-edge design happening in Grand Rapids.”

\\\"You used to make B-24 Bombers at Willow Run. Now you\\\'re developing driverless cars there. At Ventower in Monroe you\\\'re making the towers that make wind turbines possible. Chevy is making electric cars in Hamtramck and using clean energy to do it. Shinola has created more than 500 jobs and they\\\'ve cornered the market on watches for presidents. Both my husband and President Obama love their Shinolas. So Michigan proves every day that American workers are the best in the world. All they need is a fair chance on a fair playing field.\\\"

\\\"Companies have to start treating workers like assets to be invested in, not costs to be cut,\\\" Clinton said, advocating for what she called \\\"corporate patriotism.\\\"

\\\"Like Michigan Ladder Company, which has been operating in Ypsilanti for over 10 years. They have stopped buying fiberglass ladders from suppliers in China and started making them here in Michigan.\\\"

Clinton said she also wants to help community banks offer more startup capital, \\\"so more entrepreneurs can get their dreams off the ground.\\\"

\\\"You see the power of small businesses right here in Michigan with companies Detroit Bikes and McClure\\\'s pickles,\\\" she said. \\\"They create jobs. They make the city a more dynamic and attractive place.\\\"

She also talked infrastructure investment, promising to \\\"rebuild our crumbling water systems in Flint and around the country.\\\"

\\\"Folks work hard all day, and they awake all night trying to figure out how in the world they\\\'re going to pay for their kids\\\' college... And for some parents it\\\'s even worse,\\\" Clinton said.

\\\"They have to worry about whether the water their kids drink is poisonous, like the families in Flint. Or about their kids\\\' schools that are crumbling and broken and infested, like too many here in Detroit. That is not the way it\\\'s supposed to be in America.\\\"

The Detroit speech came four days before Michigan\\\'s primary elections on Tuesday.

Nandini

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