| Is the exaggerated attack on Toyota a plan to get Americans to buy American cars? |
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Asked 2 years ago
by suzannabanana1  Germany |
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I don't have any particular political affiliation but will attach myself to certain issues. I don't like "jargon" to describe people or issues, like "liberal"; I think it's lazy and replaces critical thinking. I read a lot and I put polls up on issues when I want to compare my opinions against those of others. Often I'm surprised and that's what I like about Ask500. I'm back in Maine (thank god) now after having spent 8 months in Germany and 6 weeks in Krakow, Poland. I did go back to Poland, near Warsaw, for six weeks but am back. I'm home for good now.
After years of mostly ending up on the "liberal" side of things, I'm tending right a little over this illegal immigration issue and I'm becoming more jaded about our Congress. I have to fight feeling hopeless about our country.
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[0 points] 2 years ago by deleted user ReplyCare to show reputable links for the assertion that Toyota does not allow unions?
Toyota is indeed the focus of union attention. Buffalo, Kentucky, the closing of the Fremont (union) GM plant, etc.
But to assert that unions are using the anti-union media to stir up resentment is stupid.
Thanks, I have not heard any suggestion that Toyota is keeping unions out, like wall-mart is.
Besides the way our unions are set up is stupid, we should be able to join any union at any time we want, regardless of the place we work.
Think about that---why would you join the auto workers when you work at a grocery??? Auto workers and grocery workers need their own unions.
Why should workers limit their collective bargaining power to single trades? Does that in any way make labor stronger? Hell, no.
Take a look at unions like the IWW, which do NOT limit themselves to specific trades. And take a look at how hard the other side worked to make sure that the IWW wasn't ever going to be a major player in this country, up to and including false imprisonment spearheaded by the FBI. There is a lot of collusion with non-labor power--collusion, not cooperation or negotiation--behind the formulation of the AFL-CIO, and very little of it good for the worker.
Totally stupid!!!!!!
I don't know if it is or not, but it is certainly consonant with the principles of capitalism.
I don't know about the exaggerated attacks...but I do know that I have owned a Toyota vehicle and it was one of the best trucks I have ever owned. I would not hesitate to buy Toyota again.
Same thing the dead people said before their car sped up and was unable to stop---this days Toyo isn't the old truck you had.
People are killed in vehicles every day. No car is "safe". I would not hesitate to drive a Toyota, any make, any model. If you are scared of them, that is up to you. But here is an interesting article about why it took so long to "investigate" the problem.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/03/how-real-are-the-defects-in-toyotas-cars/37448/?rss=37448
Edit: Talking on cell phones and driving has killed way more people than run-away Toyota's have, yet people are more than willing to risk doing just that every day. No hysteria involved until suddenly there is a big fat law suit involved. What? No one wants to try and tie Apples Iphone into crash related deaths?? And don't completely rule out the need for other auto-manufacturers desperate need to sell cars just to try and stay afloat, as a contributing factor to the hype.
Thanks for the link.
Talk is cheap--telling what you would do is much different than doing it--you go get one of todays Toyota and then tell me how paranoid I am---if you can get a used 2010 or new one and drive it with no worry--go do it, not me, not yet.
That seems a little paranoid.
More likely the attack would be by a disgruntled employee, though that is highly unlikely too.
Strongly disagree. I have a Honda and feel no motivation to choose one makers' nationality over another. I think I bought a quality product and as long as I've had my Civic I think I'd have become aware of any safety issues by now if there were any.
http://www.internetautoguide.com/auto-recalls/01-int/honda/index.html
It's a 1998. I think 12 years would have been enough time to discover a defect if there was one.
oh--i AGREE! Same year as my Buick, It has a recall for a fuel sensor or something and I never bothered with it--so far so good.
According to MSNBC (IIRC) other manufacturers than Toyota, including Ford and Chrysler, built the vast majority of cars that exhibited the runaway throttle problem over the last decade in the USA. No company seems to ever solved any of these problems in a way that is convincing. The number of deaths attributed to Toyotas is much lower than those attributed to some other brands.
I would not be surprised to find out that some companies are taking advantage of Toyota's bad publicity to push their own brands.
About unions: I don't believe the companies in the usa can keep them out if their workers vote them in. To blame the company when unions fail to convince the workers seems silly.