In my mind, Ford ought to be the company that’s being held up as a real success story,” Ford told reporters after a speech Monday at an entrepreneurs’ conference in Detroit. “We didn’t take the bailout, we paid back our debts, we pulled ourselves up by our bootstraps. We’re investing in America. We’re exporting out of America. And so, I think we have a great story to tell.”
[...] Bill Ford defended the North American Free Trade Agreement that covers the United States, Canada and Mexico, arguing it has allowed Ford to “build our business on both sides of the border.”
“Our U.S. manufacturing business has grown, and our Mexican manufacturing business has grown,” he said. “We think it has been a good deal.”
