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Building my own coffin

The ad stars a former plant worker in Indiana who tells the story: One day he was told to build a small stage and, shortly after, Romney’s Bain colleagues herded the workers in front of the stage to tell them they were fired. Romney, the worker says, made $100 million by shutting down the plant.

“I looked both ways. I looked at the crowd, and we all just lost our jobs,” says the worker, Mike Earnest. “Turns out that when we built that stage it was like building my own coffin, and it just made me sick.”