The Money Goes to Japan with Every Sale of a Toyota

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP),

If you read the article you linked on Wiki about Aum Shinrikyo you can see the Japanese most likely spend more on suppressing this group than they earn. Also with 1650 members in a country the size of Japan, hardly a major power.

Must be my abbreviated high school education.

 

Yet they managed a pretty nasty subway attack, didn't they?

The size of the group doesn't really matter... most terrorist cells are small, and that's entirely out of necessity.

 

Yeah, before the Japanese government used the money they make from taxes on earnings from Toyota workers among others to squash the group. The attack was back when the group had some members.

 

GM - Ford - Chrysler

... Brad

 

I know you spent many hours researching your post, thank you.

 

I spent the bulk of my life driving these things. No more - no more.

... Brad

 

Malorn,
For starters, buying a import car is what are goverment wants us to do, this is what NAFTA is all about, yes look at GM, Ford ,and Chrysler all laying off and closeing plants down. But Toyota is hirering and building new plants. They are building 2 new plants just for the new Prius models. I have a 2003 GMC truck I bought new and I lost count of the times I had it at the dealership. And that was built in Canada, Dodge trucks are built in Mexico. Chrysler was a forigen company until last year, just like Toyota is.

 

GM, Ford and Chrysler have laid off/bought out over one hundred thousand workers in the last year and half alone. How many does toyota employ in the US?

 

Welcome back, malorn ~ we'd sure like to hear what bet you lost that caused you to post the Toyota avatar ... was it that gas would be back to $2.50 a gallon by summer? At least your new avatar is a picture of a 'real' vehicle ... unlike the volt image you removed. Speaking of the volt, perhaps you're ready to make another bet? That the Volt (if it ever gets off the drawing board) WILL NOT be 100% made in the U.S.A. ? GM's already admitted the high likelyhood that the main component, the batteries, will NOT be from a U.S. company. Too bad. Too bad GM sold off Ovshinski's battery after crushing all the EV1's ... because GM wouldn't have to be scrambling to avoid bankruptcy had it not sought quick quarterly profits vis a vis the Hummer. Perhaps you took the time off to file paperwork to start a Toyota dealership? That's where MY plug in will be comming from. Made right here in the U.S. and likely to be available long before the Volt.

 

Hello Hill,
My avatar change is from the $2.50/gallon bet. As for the Volt, I will bet it will be available before your you are driving a comparable toyota. As for the content, unfortunately I don't think any vehicle can claim 100% US componentry anymore. I will let you know about the Volt after I see one in September.
I was wondering when you would be back to "challenge" me and GM?

I am wondering, does the ad make you smile or mad? Our showrooms have had an unbelievably positive response to it.

 

It makes me neither. It makes me sad that GM continues the spin. Take the Volt for example. First, the price will be in the $20K range ... then the $30K Range ... now it's the $40K range. And if it ever gets off the drawing board? Who knows how unafordable it'll be compared to, for example, my '04 Prius, fully loaded, which I got in '04 when it was 6 months used - for under $20K. On and on goes the GM spin.

GM's last pure U.S. made car btw was the EV1.

 

Well, here in Canada at least Harper has made token baby steps to reducing the DEBT, not add to it. Instead of spending money like a drunk sailor, the Canadian gov is spending money like a *sober* sailor.

Hardly earth shaking, but we have to start somewhere. Naturally, the Socialist NDP party is firmly against debt repayment. Consider how they ran Ontario onto the rocks in the 1990's

In case you haven't guessed, I'm a Fiscal Conservative. I absolutely do not believe in governments reaching into my pocketbook to steal my money, to fund enormous pork projects to buy votes from simpletons.

I don't believe in welfare, as most of it is a pure grab. Especially corporate welfare. I like the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, they routinely publish the top corporate welfare recipients in Canada.

Explain to me why a huge company like Bombardier or Pratt and Whitney Canada have received so much taxpayer moolah? Their repayment is also embarassing, under 40% on average. You will notice GM Canada and Ford Canada have also sucked the taxpayer teat

http://www.taxpayer.com/pdf/Top_50_Industry_Canada_Recipients_1982-2005.pdf

Thanks to their lobbying, the perpetual gas tax boondoggle is at least now being partially applied to roads. At one time, under 15% of gas tax revenue was put into roads, the rest was put into the magic slushy fund

As far as American politics, Ross Perot had some good ideas, but nobody took him seriously. Recently, Ron Paul also had some good ideas, but again too far removed from the mushy "comfort zone" of conventional Republican or Democrat political bs.

The current selection of Democrat and Republican is, imho, downright embarassing. Quite frankly, it doesn't matter one bit who gets in, the end result is the same, sorry to say

Not sure what sort of catastrophe it will take before folks come to their senses. I suspect the sort of catastrophe that will require our great-great grandchildren to scratch primiative drawings on cave walls