Interesting Fact of the Day

In 1914 Henry Ford created what is sometimes referred to as the Five Dollar a Day program. This program was designed to pay employees five dollars daily and the creation of an 8 hour work day. For this wonderful gift, Ford felt it was okay to check up on his employees. He created a Sociological Department to make regular visits to make sure his employees were keeping their homes clean and living by moral standards. Like most authoritarian types, he said he did this because he loved his people and he just wanted what was best for them and blah blah blah… (You know the routine.) It turns out when the program became too expensive it was terminated. So much for his undying love. I think Ford must have had some really warped definition of the word Liberty.

It also turns out that Ford was anti-Semitic. Here is the front page of an article he wrote about the Jewish people. And here is a quote he mentions, not from Hitler but from The New International Encyclopedia!

“Among the distinguishing mental and moral traits of the Jews may be mentioned: distaste for hard or violent physical labor; a strong family sense and philoprogenitiveness; a marked religious instinct; the courage of the prophet and martyr rather than of the pioneer and soldier; remarkable power to survive in adverse environments, combined with great ablility to retain racial solidarity; capacity for exploitation, both individual and social; shrewdness…”

This is just a little more proof that contrary to what just about everyone says, the world is actually becoming better and more humane place to live.