100 years ago today: Ford operates first moving assembly line

1917 Model T Ford

America and the world was forever changed by the moving assembly line. It was 100 years ago today when Henry Ford installed the first one to build Model T automobiles. Ford slashed the time to manufacture a car from 12 hours down to two hours and thirty minutes.

Ford did it without federal government subsidies--or any federal assistance at all.

Flash forward a century--the feds can't even operate a website to sell insurance after three years of what passes for work in the public sector.

Business--not government--creates prosperity.

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