While I am sure Toyota might have some problems – the Obama administration is making a mountain out of a molehill.

GM & the UAW’s day will come. And it is probably closer than Obama thinks it is.

Now that the Federal Government has a stake in GM, they’re going to employ every dirty trick they can to stay ahead.

We need to watch this carefully, and take notes — this is EXACTLY how a Public Option will turn into Single Payer.

One Chevy down, one to go.

True. But you will be acquiescing in an ongoing “spread the wealth” redistribution from makers to takers. It’s a question of degree, I suppose. At what point does such a thing make us uncomfortable?

If Toyota got $1 billion in subsidies, GM & Co certainly got $67 JUST from the bailouts and not including what has to be billions in subsidies over the years.

And when you start in on conservatives and the “socialist products” they love so much, I note the distinct absense of Toyota in your list. I was never arguing for anything other than Toyota, yet you (attempt to) put me in the position of defending Merc and BMW. Sorry, no sale.

When I buy Toyota, two things are pretty self-evident. I’m very, very likely to get a high quality car, and I won’t be propping up a government-owned farce of a company doing it.

I know conservatism is a style of government … but I find it odd that some conservatives love socialist products so much – like Mercedes and BMW, e.g. (where they have unions on their boards), or Ferrari or Maserati or Lamborghini or Porsche or Rolls Royce or Bentley. But hey, buy what you like. Transfer that wealth!

Second, if Toyota received “more than a billion dollars” from taxpayers, how does that number compare to (a) the auto maker “bailouts”, (b) previous Big 3 subsidies over the same time period where you claim this ‘more than a billion dollars’, and (c) the billions of dollars of taxpayer money being siphoned off the the UAW and other crooked unions through one form or another?

Third, when the government takes charge of (buys or confiscates, take your pick) Manufacturer A whose quality is crap, and then makes a pitched effort, using tools at its disposal due to being the government, to discredit Manufacturer B, whose quality is outstanding, then I’m buying from Manufacture B, the manufacturer whose success or failure is tied to the free market at some level. You go ahead and by crap government cars if you want to.

If you don’t view my choice as ‘conservative’, that’s your privilege. Conservatism is a form of governance, not a consumer choice, so for starters the whole topic is a bit non sequitur. But playing your game a bit, seeing as I’m using it as a form of protest against government takeover (and subsequent ‘gaming) of an industry, by purchasing from its free-market competitor, I think your argument is crap.

Your papa ain’t your papa, but your papa don’t know.

Cheers

But I agree with you, it will bounce back. I just hate the way good companies have to suffer at the hands of these Nazis. These incompetent Nazis.

And I gottta tell you, I love my Supra. Baby!

Apparently she wishes I favored the mailman or the milk man a little more.

It’s going to feel good come new car time when I can plunk down my money on a new Toyota. I have a feeling that Toyota is going to come out of this thing stronger than ever.