On this date 150 years ago, Henry Ford was born in Dearborn, Michigan to a farming family. But his life’s course led him to revolutionize industrial production the world over. He built his first automobile in 1896, and in 1908, introduced the Model T, an immediate success. To meet demand, Ford developed the assembly line, which cut the time to build each car from over 12 hours to just 90 minutes. At one point, half of all the cars in America were Model Ts — all of them painted black — which sold for as little as $300. Today, the average cost of a new car at one of the nation’s nearly 18,000 dealerships is just over $26,000. You can find more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau, online at <www.census.gov>.
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Although this is a great American success story, the sadness is that those who left the farm to work in the factories no longer have farms to return to. Or factories.
I see that Bill and Hilliary Clinton are outraged that their conduct has been mentioned by Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin, who worked for Hilliary for many years. Of course, Weiner is a Dem running for the office of Mayor of NYC and he has his own problems dealing with women other than his wife. Now Eliot Spitzer, another Dem who is running for New York City Comptroller, and who hopes that voters will forget his dalliances with prostitutes while he was Governor of New York, says that Weiner should withdraw from the race.
Goodness gracious, would this be the perfect time for North Carolina to send John Edwards to New York City to get in the middle of this?