Cape Cod Crusader

Start up your engines and get hot about this great nation---from the man who revitalized an auto industry

Mr. Lee Iacocca, who left Ford to strengthen the failing Chrysler Corporation, has a recent book, "Where have all the leaders gone?"  And it looks like it might just make the best sellers list.  From excerpts listed below, it appears he's trying to start some new engines--and I don't mean the one's sitting in your garage.  In plain talk, he's saying that we have been asleep at the wheel--and he's right! Now we just need to round up a few hundred thousand like him who are willing to speak out about the gross injustice of corporate greed and the current administration.  How  did they erode the fabric of our once thriving economy?  I hope Mr. Iacocca will do a book tour in Massachusetts sometime. In the meantime, I wanted to share the preview of a refreshing book that appears to tell it like it is. Thank you, Lee, for what looks to be a great hit and thanks for all those favorite cars you helped create:  The cool Ford Mustang, cozy, luxurious  and smooth riding Lincoln Continental Mark  III,  and my favorite, 1967'  fast and "they hear me comin", Mercury Cougar, all owned by family members.  (67' cougar was mine) Great cars and a great man who gives back to the people through his philanthropic dedication. At 83, he is still looking great! And obviously still has much fight left to inspire a nation.  We need it!

Finding a cure for type 1 diabetes remains the sole mission of The Iacocca Foundation.  Proceeds of his book go to support the Iacocca Foundation. 

By Lee Iacocca with Catherine Whitney

 I
Had Enough?

Am I the only guy in this country who's fed up with what's happening? Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder. We've got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we've got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can't even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car. But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, "Stay the course."

Stay the course? You've got to be kidding. This is America, not the damned Titanic. I'll give you a sound bite: Throw the bums out!

You might think I'm getting senile, that I've gone off my rocker, and maybe I have. But someone has to speak up. I hardly recognize this country anymore. The President of the United States is given a free pass to ignore the Constitution, tap our phones, and lead us to war on a pack of lies. Congress responds to record deficits by passing a huge tax cut for the wealthy (thanks, but I don't need it). The most famous business leaders are not the innovators but the guys in handcuffs. While we're fiddling in Iraq, the Middle East is burning and nobody seems to know what to do. And the press is waving pom-poms instead of asking hard questions. That's not the promise of America my parents and yours traveled across the ocean for. I've had enough. How about you?

This is excerpted from Where Have All the Leaders Gone?. Copyright © 2007 by Lee Iacocca. You can read a longer except on the Border's site here.