"I'm a simple man with simple answers. I've learned after 20+ years of teaching HS economics that you need to keep it simple. Excessive taxation, regulation and labor costs are the three primary reasons industry has left our country. I don't believe in pontificating nor do I discuss anything with ideological zealots, by nature they're unreasonable people. You can imagine being an educator how lonely I am in school "
Spoken like a true zealot. One needs to only look at where our schools languish on the international scale. List the simple reasons for that.
All this began long before most of us think. In the years after World War Two, Ford began using Japanese steel for their cars. The early '50 Fords were real rust buckets, too. Bear in mind that old Henry was one who believed in doing everything "in house". Ford owned Rouge Steel, the coal mine and the iron mine, as well as the lake freighters to haul the raw product. So why Japanese steel? When machinery was delivered to a Ford plant, it was the Ford millwrights who installed said machinery, not iron workers. Years later when the federal regulations detated that these machines needed more safeguards, old Henry or his sons had all those safeguards put in place "in house" rather than my the manufacturer of the machinery. I sat for the jury for three months on a liability case vs Rockwell Machine when an inspector was injured on a machine after Ford insisted that they install the new safeguards. Corporate greed is what I see as the problem in America today. It just isn't in the manufacturing industry either. One needs to look only as far as the top executives on Wall Street, in National Banks, and at the paper pushers. Bottom Line.
