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John Stossel comments on Toyota's recalls...........

Feb 24, 2010 1:55AM PST

I like John Stossel,he's a comsumer advocate and a Libertarian after my own heart.

In his blog he describes what myself and many other Toyota master techs already know."How do we fix it if it ain't broke"????

*Because Toyota is the evil business of the month, every accident caused by a drunk or careless driver can suddenly be attributed to safety defects in the vehicle. No human wants to admit ?human error.? ?Toyota error? is a much better story to tell dad. The parasite circus of trial lawyers invites bad drivers to blame gas pedals.*
http://stossel.blogs.foxbusiness.com/2010/02/24/the-parasite-circuit/

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Yeah...this is really rotten
Feb 24, 2010 2:06AM PST

I'm sure lawyers are already calling as many persons who were traveling in a Toyota or driving one that crashed and encouraging them to consider the possibility that at fault was the vehicle. This is what those parasites do best. I know there are at least 3 groups of people that scour police web sites for accident reports as I've been called by all of them. We have lawyers, body shops and...of all things...chiropractors. Only this past week I received a flood of such calls one day on my cell phone. It turns out it was in reference to an auto accident but someone had given a wrong number. Happy

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It just got worse. Breaking news on FBI raid.
Feb 24, 2010 8:18AM PST
http://www.latimes.com/business/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-us-toyota-supplier-investigation,0,4943178.story

While Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda sits answering questions on Capitol Hill, the FBI confirmed with us they raided the offices of three Toyota suppliers in Metro Detroit for documents related to antitrust violations. UPDATE!

The FBI just confirmed to us they raided the offices of Yazaki North America, Denso International and Tokai Rika (TRAM). Though all are Toyota supplies they've yet to confirm if this is a part of an ongoing probe into Toyota's 1.4 million unit recall, and a larger antitrust action confirmed by Toyota to MSNBC.
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Article says unrelated to Toyota recalls
Feb 24, 2010 8:42AM PST

and that they supply other auto manufacturers as well. So why do you think the news readers would single out Toyota among the others to include in the headline? I think I know. Wink

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yeah, something fishy there
Feb 24, 2010 9:08AM PST

Supposedly it's part of an investigation into auto part suppliers and over charging or conspiracy for price fixing among them. Yet, if you google that headline, it's all over the internet that way now.

Akio Toyoda got crucified today by Congress who is all to anxious to divert attention that even more of them need to be recalled than Toyotas.

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I can agree that Congress critters
Feb 25, 2010 9:37AM PST

see the Toyota scandal as an excellent opportunity to divert people's discontent and ire on to another target.

When people are unhappy enough, it's not too difficult to distract them into taking it all out on an easy target, even for frustrations that have nothing to do with that target.

Roger