From: Jasper
Date: 10/20/03
Time: 9:15:41 PM
Remote Name: 68.77.161.88
Charlie,
We are not as far apart as you might think on the issue of large numbers of foreigners in the Untied States, the extent to which they know our history better than we do and the extent to which SOME of them are using it against us. The difference, I think is in your emphases on Arab and Moslem terrorists (the apparent current threat) and my emphasis on the Germans and the English. I know that I haven’t said anything about them in those terms but from now on you can read them between the lines.
In my last decade at Ford it became obvious to everyone in design and engineering that Germans and Englishmen were running the company and bringing in other German’s and Englishmen to carry out their plans. They had no loyalty to the United States and the first Englishman (Troutman) to become president and CEO publicly announced that Ford was not an American company. We had know for years that this was true, the Big Three were all multinationals with no allegiance to anyone outside of there board rooms. But to hear it from the lips of an Englishman was chilling.
How were we going to compete with the Japanese automakers, who were partnered with their government to do things we couldn’t do by American law, had no stake in promoting American interests?
Simple.
Ship more manufacturing plants to Mexico for cheaper labor and less restrictive laws. Bring in large numbers of Pakistani engineers and computer experts on work visas through temporary employment agencies that don’t pay overtime and work them overtime for six or seven days a week indefinitely. Freeze the hiring of permanent workers and use temporary workers instead. Ship out as much work as possible to venders anywhere in the world who can do the job for less money. Jack up car prices to compensate for the difference in the money the company appears to be making on paper by these “prudent” financial decisions and the money it loses to do that same jobs over and pay the top executives big bonuses for their brilliant shell game.
Naturally, some well connected Americans benefit by participating in these shenanigans or orchestrating them. They have no loyalty to the United States, either. –Jasper