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Boojatta

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6. It sounds as though a modern Henry Ford would have no economic transactions with Americans.

Reply to phantom power (Original post)

Mon Dec 19, 2011, 04:03 PM

Dec 2011

"A modern Henry Ford need not pay his employees well, since the cost of overseas labor is incredibly low, and the biggest growth market for cars lies outside the United States, anyway."

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