It'll blow your mind

Ford Motor Company CEO Bill Ford has a plan... It is a daring plan, a plan with the potential to really jumpstart the company. Yes, this plan is profound, sweeping in scope, and incredible to behold. It will blow... your... mind! Check it out: (by the way, I totally did not make this up!)

"We must reduce capacity in North America," Chairman and Chief Executive Bill Ford said. "From now on our products will be designed and built to satisfy customers, not just fill a factory."

WHOA! Can you believe this? Why, this is incredible! This is spectacular!

So what on earth have they been doing this whole time? And why is professional leech Union Leader Ron Gettelfinger upset about it? What does he think, that Ford exists to provide jobs (and ergo, him money)? What about the cars? If it costs Ford money to make cars, they can't make them for long.

The U.S. automakers are getting spanked by (insert nationality here) car makers because our cars don't really stack up to comparably priced foreign cars. Now, this is not to say that American cars suck, but it is to say that they cost more than vehicles of their kind ought to... though inspiring designs have been all but absent from the big three except possibly Daimler Chrysler (Hint: DAIMLER)... The UAW is the primary cause, I believe, of overvalued cars and of falling profits. They are responsible because they have forced companies to operate in factory filling mode. They have forced unviable benefit plans in their greed for power that are hemoraging corporate dollars that should be going to build cars... AndI have yet to verify, but I bet that they have hindered automation as well... automation that brings superlative precision and efficiency, the sort that humans can't deliver.

Ayn Rand once said that no man should live for another's sake. While I can't entirely buy that, it's mostly correct in life and completely correct in business. Looks like Bill Ford finally figured that out. How many billions were lost so he could see this?

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