Ford Profitable in Brazil
by George Nesterczuk
Issue 122 - December 17, 2008

Check out the video on the link below — about 2 1/2 minutes. It is a great story on an automated Ford assembly plant in Brazil. This is why the Big 3 need Chapter 11 not a bailout. Their management clearly knows what to do – they simply don’t have the political backbone to lead their companies. If they can’t get the UAW off their backs they have no future in the US — there are enough government disincentives to manufacturing in the US without the dead weight of the union.

Ford, GM, and Chrysler will not go under.  They will survive but their assembly operations in the US likely won't -- whether we provide a bailout or not. And remember that a high percentage of the cars sold in the USA are made in the USA today -- not just by Ford, GM, and Chrysler -- but by Toyota, Honda, and many of the rest.  They are built by American workers and they are profitable.  Why?  Because they are non-union operations and do not have the UAW hanging around their necks like large ship anchors.

Watch the video.

http://info.detnews.com/video/index.cfm?id=1189