Ford used to have its own Scientific Research Labs to study areas of interest to vehicles and their manufacture, use and recycling.
Not his government and not his dime. His government is EPA, Social Security and Medicare -- the government that used to do good stuff was ARPA, NASA and the AEC.
-PJ
Bammy is a retard.
The government has never help me do anything. They have hindered several of my endeavors/ideas however.
Governments only build bureaucracies. Private industry built the roads and the infrastructure. All government provided was taxpayer money.
Everything from the assembly line to automobile financing came from the mind of one man... Mr. Ford.
This dufus thinks the auto industry came from gov’t grants to Bell labs.. what a jerk
One of the problems with having a president who is not an American is that the clown has no knowledge of American history or how America works.
There’s no position at Ford - to include floorsweep - that the Obamadork would qualify for.
Yes, he’s that incompetent.
Glad there’s politics for the ungifted in our country.
There is nothing like visiting a plant and insulting them.
He should go to GM and give this speech, they are the ones who took Government money Ford didn’t.
Mussolini handled things this way in Italy. It's called Fascism.
A dictionary definism of fascism is ...
"a government system with strong centralized power, permitting no opposition or criticism, controlling all affairs of the nation (industrial, commercial, etc.), emphasizing an aggressive nationalism."
Wasn't it Mussolini that was ultimately hung by his heels?
Obama is so business savvy with all his experience and such. Your business suffers when your competition goes out of business? Then why does the government step in on monopoly cases when businesses start to make too much money for lack of competition?
I expect that a good portion of Ford's recent success is exactly that the government is now holding GM (for sure) and Chrysler (to an extent) back.
BTW - Does Daimler still own Chrysler?
“Newfangled”? Gosh....what a hep cat he is.
Communist bastard... what more can one say?
“If we’re going to have scientific research and development -— I was looking at all these newfangled pieces of equipment here -— some of the things that allowed the efficiencies of this plant originated in laboratories and scientists doing work on the government’s dime,” he said. “That’s how we always maintain our cutting edge.”
OK moron, name one piece of equipment in that factory that was developed by government lackeys! I dare you! I double dog dare you!
You can’t!
Amen! This guy is an idiot. He really knows nothing about how a company works.
To the extent that private firms always have their hands out to the government to fund their research (or other things), he is not wrong.
In and of itself, this argument is absolutely correct. Without government, the private sector as we know it cannot function.
Capitalism is absolutely dependent on a legal system to enforce contracts, provide a reasonably safe environment in which to function, etc.
Unfortunately, the fact that government is necessary for business to function leads idiots to believe anything governments might do will help the economy.
So we just bought a F150 truck...now I question our choice!
Got a survey from Ford in the mail today....
Guess what I’m gunna tell ‘em.....