To: kabar
Save the Buggy Whip Industry!!!
Henry Ford destroyed the economy!!
17 posted on
05/04/2012 5:16:26 PM PDT by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: GeronL
Henry Ford built his cars in America. An off shored manufacturing job has a 93% chance of having been previously a non-union job. Greed pure and simple. Labor is at most 10% of the retail cost of the average manufactured good. Factor in shipping and all this is about a few pennies on the dollar. Tariffs and also eliminate corp taxes would be the answer.
25 posted on
05/04/2012 5:25:35 PM PDT by
central_va
( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: GeronL
I heard that Henry Ford also destroyed the entire Horse Poop Picker Upper Union, which in turn devastated the Work Boot Cleaners Membership and the Boot Polish Manufacturers Association.
29 posted on
05/04/2012 5:31:45 PM PDT by
Kickass Conservative
(A day without Obama is like a day without a Tsunami.)
To: GeronL
36 posted on
05/04/2012 5:58:06 PM PDT by
PA Engineer
(Time to beat the swords of government tyranny into the plowshares of freedom.)
To: GeronL
Your analogy doesn’t work. Buggy whip makers were able to go to work for Henry Ford since his plants were in America.
The argument is not about a new industry rendering an older one obsolete. It’s about the transfer of industry out of the country for the purpose of labor arbitrage.
An accurate rendering would be Henry Ford closing River Rouge and opening his plant overseas.
56 posted on
05/04/2012 9:48:17 PM PDT by
Pelham
(Marco Rubio, la raza trojan horse.)
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