once, and it appears they are willing to follow that path right off the cliff. Ford however is making impressive cars now, relatively speaking. It's all about executive management. Get a car guy in there and watch some rays of light poke through, put in more bean counters and union stooges and watch the company go to shit across the board. Eventually the dealership system will get scrapped and removing that enormous hamstring on the auto industry will be like night and day for the consumer and permit manufacturers to realize efficiencies in all sorts of areas from point of sale to manufacturing
"We pretended to work, and they pretended to pay us." --Mikhail Khodorkovsky "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." --Winston Churchill "When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." --Benjamin Franklin "Government is not reason. It is not eloquent. It is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." "The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury." --George Washington END THE FED ....learn why, in 42 minutes |