Posted on 09/23/2013 12:13:53 PM PDT by theruleshavechanged
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 governments dime," he said. "That's how we always maintain our cutting edge."
So what is behind the greatness of the American economy? Obama carefully gives credit to the private sector, but he argues that government is essential to this process.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
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?
What was the management of Ford thinking when the allowed 0bama to set foot inside of their factory?
Clinton gutted most defense R and D and what little was left over has been destroyed by the Obama Sequester .
Same for NASA.
The rapid economic decline of American Manufacturing and manufacturing technology coincides directly with the destruction of the Academic- Industrial -Military Defense technology development alliance powerhouse that won the Cold War and that Clinton destroyed and thoroughly salted the earth behind him so it could never be reconstructed and has not been to this day.
“Everything from the assembly line to automobile financing came from the mind of one man... Mr. Ford.”
And Ford got his assembly line “idea” from visiting a slaughterhouse, and watching a line of men “Disassemble” pig carcasses.
“All government provided was taxpayer money.”
I should send Obama the copy of my 2290 (Federal Highway Use Tax) just to show who DID build the roads. I collected that money from consumers, transferred it to the government, who sent it to the private industry to build the roads.
“Newfangled”? Gosh....what a hep cat he is.
Communist bastard... what more can one say?
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