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