{BS} Ray Lahood gets TOUGH with Toyota! (2025 Update)

I've been reading a bunch of articles claiming that Toyota is attempting to use it's influence with the US government to get the penalties lessened. While I agree that Toyota tries to influence government decisions the articles are missing one extremely important fact. GM and Chrysler ARE the US government!

Yes, along with the unions.

They are publicized, GM and Ford dont run, hide, or ignore the issue like Toyota has for maybe 7 years. The problem is toyota would never have dont it by themselves. Ford, GM, just Do It. Read the AP today . State Farm notifed the NHTSA in 2007. The NHTSA has been getting complaints since 2003. This bullshit Toyota has been trying to ignore hoping it would go away. This crap has been going on for years and years, Toyota deserves a 2 billion dollar fine, thats not much, its about toyotas last quarters Net. Now its Hondas turn with Airbags,

Low blow, tak...

After years of hearing the GM guys say, there's nothing wrong with MY car, Toyota has a recall and it's SEE WE TOLD YOU THEY WERE JUNK!!!!

Lahood should know better. But like his boss, he doesn't.

They have to sell GMs, you know. They need to get the money back.

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No one cars but the care companies.

Sure...Uh huh. Remember the sticker Ford sent people with bad transmissions 30 years ago? They even fought the government on that.

Blah, blah, blah. The Liberal media tells you Toyota is bad.

LOL!

Hey, I never heard that before! I like it!

James Maxton, to whom this saying is attributed (quot. 1935), was a British Independent Labour Party MP (1932-46). Denis Healey (see quot.

Maxton made a brief intervention in the debate to say?that he did not believe it was necessary to pass a resolution for disaffiliation [of the ILP from the Labour Party]. He had been told that he could not ride two horses. ?My reply to that is?, he said??that if my friend cannot ride two horses?what's he doing in the bloody circus?? [1935 G. Mcallister James Maxton xiv.]

A producer who ?can't ride two horses at the same time shouldn't be in the circus.??Current affairs television should be both serious and entertaining. [1979 Daily Telegraph 15 Mar. 15]

But politics is a practical activity, not an intellectual one. As Denis Healey once said, if you can't ride two horses at once, you shouldn't be in the bloody circus.

Simply validities my suspicion: nothing new or original out of Palin's mind or mouth. Thanks for the research (;-)

I give her an A+++ if she can make a detailed speech using only a few key words on the palm of her hand. Obama has to have three telepropters holding the entire speech. I thought this guy was so smart and had a photographic memory or was I led down the BS path about that.

Everybody was. Some of us just woke up before election day...

Who anything about speaking?

Wrong preposition replace for with from (the)

Auto manufacturers are Beholden to the Customers. There is an old saying, The Customer Is Always Right!

Don't tell the Customers the brakes are within spec, get used to it. The Customers will buy their autos from a different auto manufacturer.They will vote with their pockets. cuhulin

I think that was a dealer or service manager that said that.

Whoever it was, I'd bet he's no longer working for Toyota in any way, shape or form...