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Originally Posted by 5thGenOwner
Does no one here see the conflict of interests?
The US government owns (not just owns... but has a major stake in) GM & Chrysler, the competition of Toyota... yet they are having US congressional hearings (taxpayers expense) over this.
And in my lifetime I've seen recall after recall of every make and model (yes, some due to deaths)... why now is this the biggest deal on the planet? Who does it benefit the most?
How about we stop wasting taxpayers money for congressional hearings on baseball, football, and car recalls. (Have they set the date for the hearing on Tiger Woods?) If it wasn't so sad I'd be laughing right now.
If people want athletes that Juice... that's what they get, if they don't... then that's what they get. If people want a car that has had a recall... it's their prerogative. What happened to my USA?
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If it was being done to benefit GM and Chrysler, why are Ford and Honda looking to be the big gainers out of it? Shouldn't such a conspiracy be constructed so that the only result is that you win? Seems sorta basic to me. If the goal were to give sales to GM and Chrysler, I would pass trade laws to cut off the supply of imported vehicles leaving a vacuum in the market for domestics to fill. Then I would seek to destroy Ford's reputation. This would open up millions of sales to GM and Chrysler, and only GM and Chrysler.
And what about the fact that Toyota has covered up this problem (and others), lied about its causes, and blamed its customers
, and blamed its suppliers? What about the fact that Toyota has had more unintended acceleration incidents than everyone else combined? Couldn't that be enough cause for the government to take interest? Wasn't it a conflict of interest for congressmen who had 'transplants' in their state to hammer the domestics in late 2008?