[Paul R.]

To be fair, MANY factors were a lot different, and more positive, in the days of Henry Ford.

[catnipman]

“To be fair, MANY factors were a lot different, and more positive, in the days of Henry Ford.”

Indeed. We made your own steel from iron ore back then, dug the coal that ran it all, and were pretty much self-sufficient industrially in terms of both resources AND manufacturing, so a major new enterprise like auto manufacturing resulted in the rise of all boats, not to mention no competition with illegal labor.