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By Doug Cunningham

[Stabenow]: “We need this industry as a basic part of the fabric of our economy. Somebody has to make something in America."

Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow says federal help is urgently needed for the U.S. auto industry. She says workers are not to blame for the automakers’ crisis.

[Stabenow 2]: “We don't have to say to the workers that they should restructure in terms of pay cuts and changes in flexibility and changes in benefits. The new contracts with the UAW cut wages for new workers by fifty percent. I don't know any other industry, anywhere, who has been willing to make changes on the order of a fifty percent cut."