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When Toyota President Akio Toyoda testified last week before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, an attitude was exposed that Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) correctly characterized as fostering a "cutthroat corporate" environment that placed costs ahead of quality and safety. Such a priority would have been anathema to Toyoda's grandfather, Kiichiro Toyoda, who founded the company and turned it into an automotive juggernaut thanks to a business philosophy created by an American named W. Edwards Deming.
Deming believed in a business model that puts product quality and company relationships between workers and management first, favoring continual and...
Profit Over Principles
Date: Mar 2, 2010 - 1:17 PM EST"
While conservatives can complain about Toyota quality if they like, asking that the government step in to protect consumers is a progressive liberal position. I am really getting sick and tired of reading progressive liberal talking points on this web page. Town Hall Moderators need to really get a handle on all this progressive indoctrination. The other Toyota article is even worse than this one.
As I said in the other thread, there is no factual empirical evidence that there is in fact a quality problem with the accelerator control system on these cars. There can be any number of unverifiable issues that cause these extremely rare crashes. 34 to date out of...