Actually what you are saying is that so long as we allow 'free trade' as opposed to freedom to trade (quite something else), the mandate becomes one of "subvert your country for profit and ethics be damned". Good, we're on the same page - people with no ethics forcing "no ethics" upon us all against our wishes.
As for ford, he wasn't weird, he was a realist. You can produce a product all you want. If people can't afford it, you have no market. So, Ford payed a wage that allowed people to afford the product and thusly expanded his market by default. Greedy people tend to lose sight of the fact that money hoarded is stale, but money spent grows like wildfire. The Dims have been historically too dimwitted to note that too - or have neglected it to purposedly undermine
the American people. Now you're basically telling me that the no-ethics none of the time crowd (Elitist GOP bluebloods) are really of no more use than the piss-christ.
For all the heat over patriotism with regard to the left, I find it simply amazing that it doesn't bother you all when Companies are unpatriotic. Again, all that matters to your crowd is the profit - oh, and maybe once in a while saying whatever you must for sake of public opinion..
I didn't say that people have no ethics. I said corporations I no inherent loyalties to a country. And once again, they're machines. They're not patriotic, friendly or aimed at "family values." They're machines.
For example, wal-mart is a machine that buys cheap crap in China, India, etc. and puts in on shelves for sale in large buildings. Less frequently, they open a new large building to create more shelves for additional cheap crap from China and India, etc.
That's all the wal-mart machine does. The company exist for no other reason.