Part of the cruel calculus of capitalism is that some companies fail because of bad luck, and others fail because they deserve to. Ford, in my opinion, is one of the latter. The company is jettisoning another 30,000 American jobs as part of an Orwellian-titled "way forward" plan aimed at stemming the losses from the poor decision-making, vapid car design, failure to keep up with technological advancements (clean fuel cars anyone?) and the losses and embarrassments from recall-tainted crap on wheels they've been hawking for more than a decade. (Am I biased? Yep. I've owned a Ford (Expedition) -- one of the recalled ones the company threw together but refuses to take responsibility for now that it's scrap metal...)
Bottom line: Ford's cars are junk, their management are fools and they deserve to go out of business, in pure capitalist style. I'm just sorry for their workers, who should by no means be shown the door before their worthless managers and executives are. But if Ford goes the way of the Edsel and is replaced by a smarter, better U.S. car-maker (maybe the Apple Computer or Jet Blue of the auto industry is just waiting to be born in the dorm room of some whiz kid car designer? One can only hope so, and that the Bush feds won't swoop in to rescue Ford so it can buy up the new guy before he beats the crap out of them...) then in the end, U.S. consumers will be the winners.
<%
dim done
done = request.form("done")
if done = "" then
done = "No"
%>
Tell a friend
<%
Else
if request.form("done") = "Yes" then
'sets variables
dim email, sendmail
email = request.form("email")
Set sendmail = Server.CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail")
'put the webmaster address here
sendmail.From = "webmaster@aspbasics.com"
'The mail is sent to the address entered in the previous page.
sendmail.To = email
'Enter the subject of your mail here
sendmail.Subject = "Check out this website"
'send a specific page or send a site url
dim url
'url = Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER")
url = "http://www.aspbasics.net"
'This is the content of the message.
sendmail.Body = "Site recommendation from a friend!" & _
vbCrlf & vbCrlf & "A friend has sent you this email and thought you would should check out this site." & _
vbCrlf & url & vbCrlf
'this sets mail priority.... 0=low 1=normal 2=high
sendmail.Importance = 1
sendmail.Send 'Send the email!
response.redirect Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER")
'Response.write ("Sent to ") & email
End if
End if
%>
"[T]he practice of arbitrary imprisonments, have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.' Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 84, August, 1788
