Hey you read it anyway. Thanks for buying a Toyota BTW. Both you and Sean need to reread the part about lost tax revenue. What dont you get about Chapter 11 being a bad idea? What don't you get about this countries loss of manufacturing base? If Detroit goes tits up Toyota aint going to step up production and hire everyone layed off. If I had to guess I'd say JapanInc is going to find it hard to build cars here which means they would most certainly take those jobs back to Japan. I'm going away from these threads for good. Can't teach people who don't want to learn.I've been insulted one to many times. Quite a few people posting here who make their livelyhood in the auto industry. It just burns the heck out of me when people post anti-Detroit hate on a board dedicated to the crapiest car ever to roll out of there. Have a nice Christmas and remember those who aren't as fortunate. Someday it may be you.
Toyota? First off, my daily driver is a Honda, not a Toyota. Second, it's an American made Honda, built in an American factory, staffed by American workers, being paid in American dollars. Even the raw materials to make it and the power train are made and assembled in OH.I could have just as easilly bought a Japanese made Honda, but purposely bought the model of accord I did because it's made in OH.
I have no anti Detroit hatred. My disgust is with the UAW. I don't care how strongly anyone feels about it, unions have long outlived their usefullness. Sorry you disagree, but that's just the way it is.
UAW and upper level management are the problem here, not the workers. The workers are just taking advantage of what's handed to them. Most of us would I suspect.
The biggest travesty in this whole thing and what has me hot under the collar is this damn "job bank". What a ripoff!
BTW, I've been out of the Navy 20 years now, and working in the civilian sector, and not one time have I worked needing a union crutch. I haven't felt the need for it. Certainly glad of that.
