Henry Ford was the owner of an American company, building cars in America.
We have been suckered into believing that maintaining our inflated wages is so important, that we are willing to become the employees of a nation we defeated half a century ago.
Protecting our auto manufacturing jobs translated into selling our market to the Japanese.
Guess what the two best selling cars in America are today?
#1 -- Camry
#2 -- Accord
We've lost our own market, and now work for foreign firms.
...Paralleling Ford's domestic growth was a foreign >expansion program which began in 1904, just one year after the company was formed. On Aug.17 of that year, a modest plant opened in the small town of Walkerville, Ontario, with the imposing name of Ford Motor Company of Canada, Ltd. From this small beginning grew an overseas organization of manufacturing plants, assembly plants, parts depots and dealers, with Ford represented in some 200 countries and territories around the world. About 60,000 companies worldwide supply Ford with goods and services.
More than 338,000 men and women now come to work each day in Ford factories, laboratories and offices around the world. Ford products are sold in more than 200 nations and territories by a global network of some 10,500 dealers. And the company's annual sales exceed the gross national products of many industrialized nations. With 6.7 million car and commercial vehicle sales in 1994, Ford held a 13 percent global share....
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Ford was the first international company. Within three years of its founding, Ford was exporting cars to Europe. Within ten years, Ford had assembly plants in Canada, Europe, Australia, South America, and Japan, Henry Ford's policy was to become a contributing citizen in every country where Ford sold cars. His slogan was "Build them where you sell them."