And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I still wonder why they went out of business. Maybe they didn't pay enough in the way of bribes to politicians to get a bail-out?
ReplyDeleteOne problem was that they were often sold at the same location as the tractors and 18 wheelers. A little off the beaten path.
DeleteThere is a good, though hard to find, book on the subject: A Corporate Tragedy: the Agony of International Harvester by Barbara Marsh.
ReplyDeleteThere are a bunch out there (Amazon), just a tad pricey...
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