Quality at All Costs

The July 18 business section carried a brief that Chrysler’s chairman, Lee Iacocca, stated that U.S. consumers will return to buying U.S. cars if the U.S. auto industry will give consumers “great quality at a good price.” When did Iacocca learn that?

Or put another way, were all those thousands of workers laid off, fired and dismissed because U.S. auto makers--including Chrysler--couldn’t or wouldn’t produce great quality at a good price? And if so, why do the workers lose their jobs while Iacocca receives $20 million in pay for the job he’s been doing?

It doesn’t take a genius to see who the perpetrator of this situation is and who its victims are--U.S. workers and consumers, not to mention the trade deficit.

ROBERT ARONOFF

South Pasadena