MR. FORD WOULD HAVE BEEN PERTURBED.

I was reading on the Internet recently that Ford has built a new car, something innovative and unique. The car has some nice features, one of which is good-looking babes leaning on the cars. I always like to look at new models, but TLW (The Little Woman) won’t let me test-drive them.

The thing about this news is that this happens every autumn, the new cars come out, and everybody goes wow! Nice. NO GOOD.

These cars are in Germany. Germany is an auto industry leader: we in the USA are followers. Once we were leaders, now we follow, now we work to catch up. At one time, the mighty power of the USA was not in her industrial might, but in her ability to innovate, to bring new ideas to the forefront.

Where does the USA lead? We lead in weapons development. That should really make the world happier, more prosperous. Flipping through the channels one day, I came to the military channel. There were these soldiers from the US Army, setting up an artillery piece, then loading it. There was an aircraft carrier with jet fighters taking off, and I thought: How expensive, how wasteful. It may bring jobs, but we are shooting our money faster than we can make it!

I wonder how much that aircraft carrier costs? I wonder how much that cannon, the truck the pulled it into position and the ammo that was used all cost? HOW MANY STARVING BABIES COULD WE FEED WITH THAT MONEY. Would we have money left over after we fed them to maybe help a family pay for medical bills that could save a members life?

Don’t get me wrong, the USA isn’t the only culprit, all the nations on this earth seemed hell-bent on scaring each other, building weapons that kill and maim, and not feed the hungry, hail the sick or house the poor. Please, don’t hand me drivel about the USA being imperialist. All the world is imperialistic, lets stop the finger-pointing and point out solution to stop the insanity.

But getting back to Germany, Henry Ford built his company with production in mind, in the good old US of A, not in Germany. His plan was to build not only cars, this country, the people’s lives who live here, and to help stimulate thinkers to step beyond the ordinary, into the extraordinary.

I keep hearing the lyrics of Barry McGuire from the ‘60s “YOU DON’T believe we’re on the eve of destruction!”

Well if you don't...
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