Defenestrating Thoughts from the Bivouac

In February of 1933, Henry Ford said the following referring to the Hoover’s plan to bail out the banks:

Let them fail; let everybody fail! I made my fortune when I had nothing to start with, by myself and my own ideas. Let other people do the same thing. If I lose everything in the collapse of our financial structure, I will start in at the beginning and build it up again. (Source: LRC Blog)

Needless to say, that’s a just little ironic given that Ford is now begging for taxpayer money. :-P