The big news this week is the CEO of Toyota coming before Congress to justify and explain their position on the recent re-call of millions of their vehicles. Did they wait too late? Did they save too much money avoiding the re-call? Did they wrongly blame the drivers?
Honestly, I don’t have too much of a problem with a large company with a large impact on the general public of the United States to be questioned about their responsibility to the safety of that same public.
My biggest hang-up with the whole issue now is that the organization doing the questioning is the United States government, when they have their own little car company (Government Motor Company) in their back pocket. You think there’s any benefit with the US Government knocking out a major competitor to increase the likelihood of getting a better return on their bailout investment of an automobile company?
But at this point I’m a little tainted with the government’s recent involvement in major league baseball, NCAA national football championship and other useless endeavors far below what they should really be focusing on. Which, in my opinion is to get as much out of the way as possible and let the American people fix the country with their own hard work and determination.