[Swiftwater Gazette] Nice Car Company Ya Got There!

Thu Feb 4 13:59:18 EST 2010

Herb,

Not trying to complicate the mix here, but there is that problem of
the damn Mexicans.  They are worse than all the freakin' slant-eyes
because they take the "low rent" jobs since the Chinks quit building
railroads and doin' laundry years ago. Dr. King's dream died here in
Memphis, not on the balcony of the Laraine Hotel, but in the parking
lot when some two-bit race player named Jessie Jackson hi-jacked the
movement for his own personal gain.  Now, we have this wannabe Marxist
who you wouldn't hire to run the cash register at your do-nut shop as
the POTUS.

The MLK dream will survive.  The "American Dream" will survive.
Everything our founding fathers fought for and our immigrant parents
sought will survive, BUT, it will be a fight!

Got Tea?

Brad

On 2/4/10, Herb Parsons <hparsons at parsonsys.com> wrote:
> You have me grinning as I read that, but unfortunately it's a somewhat sad
> grin. We need more folks solving their problems instead of complaining about
> them, and looking for someone else (and "gubment" qualifies as "someone
> else") to fix them.
>
> I have no idea where it was, or how to find it, but I remember years ago
> reading an article (written by a black writer) decrying the attitude of many
> of his brethren. He noted that too many were complaining that they have no
> opportunities, and are held down by "the man" as they cashed their welfare
> checks at the 1st or 2nd generation Asian owned (usually Vietnamese at the
> time, but often Korean, and now many Mid-Eastern) convenience stores, they
> would then later justify robbing because they were "outsiders stealing
> jobs".
>
> His point was, they not only didn't want the jobs (or they'd have done the
> same self-motivated efforts themselves), they were running off the few
> businesses that were willing to locate in their neighborhoods.
>
> We really need to stop encouraging slackers by publicly subsidizing them,
> and leave them to their own messes (and the few individuals that are
> willing/anxious to pull them out of their messes).
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Herb,
>>
>> Can't find the source right now (it's out there) where LaHood said
>> earlier, "he would park his Toyota unless it was to drive it to the
>> dealership to have the defects repaired".  He later had to back down
>> from that statement.
>>
>> LaHood?  If this was a novel you'd shoot the author for "cheap writing
>> tricks" and choice of character names.
>>
>> LaHood is a politico whose best friend (a paving contractor from
>> Peoria) is in jail for, uh, paving Illinois.  How's that Recovery.gov
>> project going?  Have we fixed all those one-mile stretches of highway
>> with new asphalt yet?
>>
>> You can't make shit like this up!
>>
>> The latest meme is about the Japanese stealing our jobs.  Might want
>> to talk to Toyota workers in California, Kentucky, Mississippi, and
>> elsewhere.  Besides, the Japanese are the least of our worries.  They
>> are still too broke from their "stimulus" package over the last decade
>> to be a threat.  It is the South Koreans who are really the threat
>> with those damn Hyundai plants in Alabama (or is that the North
>> Koreans? - they all look the same to me). The Chinese can't possibly
>> be a threat because they loan us money.
>>
>> Thank God for radical Muslims.  They don't try and replace Detroit
>> workers with cheap Southern hicks in car plants.  In fact, they sell
>> us oil to drive dangerous Toyota's.
>>
>> You can't make this shit up, I tell ya!
>>
>> Brad
>>
>> On 2/4/10, Herb Parsons <hparsons at parsonsys.com> wrote:
>> > So, the government, who owns a still failing competitor, is actively
>> seeking
>> > to besmirch the reputation of a highly successful auto-maker? The
>> > dickens
>> > you say...
>> >
>> > Where did they learn this stuff, Chicago?
>> >
>> > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Here we go again.  I don't own any Toyota stock and I sold my Lexus,
>> >> but, I do have some experience with "runaway cars".  My first diesel
>> >> VW started sucking crankcase oil at around 80K miles and one night
>> >> (its last) it started feeding itself from the crankcase and "ran
>> >> away". Don't try this at home, but to my knowledge there isn't a
>> >> single production car built that the brakes won't overpower the
>> >> engine. The press destroyed the Audi 5000 (mostly 60 Minutes) in the
>> >> late 80's on a similar meme.  You can bet that every idiot who runs
>> >> off the road drunk in his Corolla is going to claim, "it just ran
>> >> away".
>> >>
>> >> Now comes the goobermint to the resuce (see below).
>> >>
>> >> Brad
>> >>
>> >> -------------------
>> >>
>> >> Gangster government targets Toyota
>> >> Examiner Editorial
>> >> February 4, 2010
>> >> Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood
>> >>
>> >> What is it about the automotive industry that inspires such thuggish
>> >> attitudes in the Obama administration? The Examiner's Michael Barone
>> >> coined the term "gangster government" to describe threats by the White
>> >> House last spring against Chrysler creditors who had the temerity to
>> >> insist that bankruptcy laws be followed in the bailout of the
>> >> perennially ailing third member of the once-fabled Detroit Big Three.
>> >> Now along comes Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood muttering darkly
>> >> that "we're not finished with Toyota" in the controversy over sticking
>> >> gas pedals in vehicles made and sold in America by the Japanese
>> >> automaker.
>> >>
>> >> The basis for these threats is little more than anecdote-based
>> >> suspicions that an electronic malady related to electro-magnetic
>> >> interference from power lines might be the problem instead of the
>> >> mechanical wear identified by Toyota engineers. Regardless, LaHood,
>> >> headline-chasing congressmen like Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and a
>> >> chorus of Naderite auto safety nannies led by former National Highway
>> >> and Traffic Safety Administration Administrator Joan Claybrook are
>> >> demanding that Toyota submit to a punishing new round of subpoenas,
>> >> hearings, and media inquisition. It's not enough that Toyota -- the
>> >> auto industry's perennial leader on respected measures of initial and
>> >> long-term quality -- has already taken the unprecedented step of
>> >> suspending production and sales of eight of its most popular models,
>> >> undertaken a crash course to identify the cause of the problem, and
>> >> guaranteed a fix for every one of the 2.3 million affected owners.
>> >>
>> >> Given the Obama administration's catering to one of its favorite
>> >> special interest groups, the United Auto Workers union, during the
>> >> government's bailouts of General Motors and Chrysler last year, it is
>> >> difficult to avoid wondering whether Toyota has become a victim of the
>> >> Chicago Way of dealing with competitors. Toyota overtook GM several
>> >> years ago as the world's leading automaker. The potential of the
>> >> current sticking gas pedal controversy to inflict damage on Toyota
>> >> here in its largest single market is seen in the January sales
>> >> figures. Toyota sales are down 16 percent while GM is up 14 percent
>> >> (Ford, which declined a government bailout last year, is up 25
>> >> percent, while Chrysler is down 8 percent). Keep the controversy going
>> >> and odds are good that Toyota sales will continue to drop. The biggest
>> >> losers besides American consumers will be the men and women who own
>> >> and work at Toyota's 1,200 U.S. dealerships and the 30,000 Americans
>> >> who build Toyotas in its five factories here. LaHood might as well
>> >> have said "Nice car company ya got there, be a shame if anything
>> >> happened to it."
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Find this article at:
>> >>
>> >>
>> http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/Gangster-government-targets-Toyota-83460857.html
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