Controversy is escalating around a statement Gov. Mitt Romney made on the campaign trail last Thursday and is now repeating in ads, alleging that Chrysler is sending Jeep jobs to China. Chrysler itself quickly rebutted the claim.

But for those who are still unconvinced by the ‘he-said-she-said,’there is an even better way to get the real picture of what’s going on in the manufacturing heartland: just follow the money.

In a November 2011 press release below, Chrysler provided a snapshot of its $4.5 billion slate of investments in U.S. production, including $1.7 billion in Jeep alone. This list not only shows that claims of a shift to China would be profoundly illogical from a business perspective (“a leap that would be difficult even for professional circus acrobats” as a Chrysler blog put it), but it also creates a picture of the scale and momentum of the auto and manufacturing transformation underway in the Midwest, the South and other manufacturing states and ...

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