Good news for Ford

Ford Motors Company was the one member of the “Big Three” of American automobile manufacturing who avoided bankruptcy when the companies made their somewhat pitiful appearances before Congress last year, hats in hand. When you are an American who has to pay for the mistakes of the rich and privileged each April 15th, it can be difficult to conjure much respect for these companies, but Ford has a very interesting history, and they used to “get it” back in the days when they introduced the Model T.

The Ford Model T was released with the 1908 model year, and it was the first car that was mass produced using assembly line technology, so it was the first vehicle that was affordable enough to be within reach of working people. Here is the rub, though: Ford calibrated the price of the car alongside the wages they paid their assembly line workers. So if you worked for Ford, you could buy a Ford. This is a simple, common sense philosophy that was fair and decent to the workers…but it also created a ready made customer base for Ford. It was a win-win, but the present day globalists have made such a simple and equitable symbiosis impossible to duplicate.

Anyway, everyday people depend on Ford’s solvency to feed their families, so it is nice to see that Ford sales are up 43% in February of 2010. The Ford company has been under the control of someone from the Ford family since it was founded around the turn of the 20th century, and that invariably has something to do with the fact that it is has been able to keep its head above water. There must still be a shred of that decency that Henry Ford instilled in the company that has survived over the generations that pays dividends when the bankers of fate call in their debts.