Toyota and the Union-Backed, Government-Led Witch Hunt

What kind of car do you drive now?

 

This is quite possibly the most nonsensical thing you have posted in quite some time. It was YOUR strawman, carpro. This concept of stealing a company by the shareholders was your point, not mine. As usual, you can't even get your catch phrases straight.

So is it okay when a company is stolen from the shareholders, except when it is done by the government?

 

Let's take a look at Brian Johnson's article:

Oh? What is the source for this "government-led and union-supported attack?" Nothing is cited here - just a statement of opinon.

Did any of the other auto manufacturers Johnson cites resist the recall? Did they handle this whole incident as poorly as Toyota did?

Those contracts are negotiated by union reps. and management. In other words, the management is culpable. Interesting that Johnson neglects to note this.

LaHood didn't publicly condemn Toyota - this is nonsense. Does he have any proof for his accusation of LaHood's motives, or is he simply making a statement and representing it as fact with no evidence?

Ah, yes: the private sector. The private sector is the answer to everything.......

 

So, I guess that is a yes?

So, is it only wrong when the government does it? It's a simple question, carpro.......

 

Good analysis, BIR. Hoping all is well with you and yours.

 

We don't always agree carpro, but I am with you on this one.

 

I'm in agreement with the OP as well.

And before anyone asks what sort of car I drive, I have both a Toyota and a Buick sitting in my driveway. Which one do I trust? The 20 year old Toyota with 180,000 miles on it that lost its entire front bumper and one of its headlights in a wreck last Thanksgiving.

The 7 year old Buick with only 82,000 miles on it, has had one problem after another since I bought the thing. Right now it has a dashboard full of warning lights, because evidently Buick can't make SENSORs that last longer than 5 minutes. (that is what the codes lead back to) Among the annoying problems the car has:

the driver's seat electric motor has stripped its gears
there is a leak in the windsheild washer tank
one of the comparment covers is broken and hangs open continuously

One of the sensors is above the gas tank, which would have to be lowered to replace it and mind you, it is the sensor that is bad, the car isnt' actually malfunctioning.

The other sensor is in the wheel hub and has been replaced THREE times (the entire hub because it is all one peice) and still malfunctions because the REAL problem seems to be in the wiring harnass and not the hub. GM KNEW there were problems with the hub, but instead of recalling them they "extended the warrenty".

The newest problem is the transmission slipping. I'm sorry, but I should not be having transmission problems on a car that only has 82,000 miles on it! The Toyota's tranmission doesn't slip.

The only GM product worth buying was Saturn(I've owned two of them). When they shut down that line, they lost my business. I have no plans to ever purchase another GM product.

Toyota however is high on my list of potential replacements for the hunk of GM junk sitting in my driveway, recalls or not.

 

Whenever people driving popular model cars die in a crashes it becomes big news. Does anyone remember how big a news story the Ford Pinto became? When considering that was before cable news and the sensationalism type of reporting of today, I would say that was treated as a much bigger story than this one.

 

Sure was patriotic of all those union members to buy Toyotas and intentionally crash them so they could complain to the government.

 

I'll tell you something else I remember: Ford telling the government it was cheaper to let people burn to death than to fix the problem.

And folks wonder why Americans turned to foreign brands.

Link for reference:

http://www.engineering.com/Library/...ype/ArticleView/articleId/166/Ford-Pinto.aspx

 

Sure was patriotic of all those union members to buy Toyotas and intentionally crash them so they could complain to the government.

Hey Bill, you would make a good propagandist for the UAW.