“Free Market” Welfare: “Incentives” Replace Healthcare

“We're just looking for our government to help us. We can compete with Toyota, but we can't compete with Japan.”

• Willam C. Ford, Jr., CEO, Ford Motor Co., remarks after National Press Club speech.
  

Sholnn Freeman. “Ford’s Chief Makes Case for Federal Help,” Washington Post, 11/23/05.

“Now, more than ever, with the competitive pressures of globalization, America needs to respond to the economic challenges of our time. Our government must view the challenges of this era through the same lens -- and stand by American workers, and American industry, as it always has.”

• Willam C. Ford, Jr., CEO, Ford Motor Co., speech, National Press Club, 11/22/05.
  

Jeff Plungis. “Ford urges incentives for auto industry,” Detroit News, 11/23/05.

“This is a cancer that will kill if it's not stopped.”

• Buzz Hargrove, President, Canadian Auto Workers.
  

Dee-Ann Durbin. “GM Job Cuts Chip Away at Unions’ Power,” AP, 11/22/05.