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Date:         Fri, 26 Mar 2004 09:06:28 -0500
Reply-To:     David Brodbeck <gull@GULL.US>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         David Brodbeck <gull@GULL.US>
Subject:      Re: recycled german parts / e-e-e-eBay
In-Reply-To:  <146.254f5893.2d958537@aol.com>
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On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, George Goff wrote:


> Please don't compare Henry Ford to Mr. Ebay.  Mr. Ford earned his well
> deserved rewards by, as he stated, seeing how much he could give his
> customers for a dollar not how uninvolved he could remain in the
> process.


Ford talked a good PR game, but like every other businessman he was in the
business of maximizing how many dollars he could extract from his
customers for a given amount of effort and material.  He also had a pretty
low opinion of the American worker, once saying that an American would
never put in a full day's work unless someone forced him to.




David Brodbeck, N8SRE
'82 Volkswagen Diesel Westfalia
'86 Volvo 240DL wagon
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