Toyota Owner Testifies to Congress, Toyota Prez Pretends Apology, Still No Fixes

From Denny: The problems with Toyota are long term and systemic of the Toyota culture. They offer up public apologies and still continue to stonewall owners on fixing their cars. Since the President Akio Toyoda testified and apologized before Congress, Toyota's new campaign is to hit the airwaves with more ads.

They are blasting the social sites like Digg with their public relations "news stories" FOX network style, claiming all is fine and in control. All that says to me is they are still too cheap to let go of the money to properly correct their electronics problems. They would rather spend that same money - and probably more in the final analysis - on ads, denials, public relations companies and pretend fixes.

As usual, Toyota is tone deaf. What do the American owners of Toyotas want from the parent company? They want their cars fixed and fixed properly. If Toyota is unable to do so, then buy back the cars.

Toyota's answer to the angry public is to do slick advertising of their vehicles. They also advertise their Lexus brand more, hoping people don't focus upon the connection to the parent company of Toyota.

Rhonda Smith, a Lexus owner from Tennessee, testified before Congress about her ordeal. Her car went careening out of control at 100 mph - and that was in 2006. Toyota refused to fix the car. Listen to her ordeal and tell me it doesn't leave you wondering why America still tolerates this car company to do business here.

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Akio Toyoda, President and owner of Toyota, offers his apology, yet still does nothing to correct the problems:

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26 Funny Political Cartoons - 6 Feb 2010

From Denny: The big Super Bowl weekend match up of the New Orleans Saints against the Indianapolis Colts is in full swing party wise in both cities! The cartoonists predicted the Saints would lose against the Vikings in the NFL Championship and were wrong. Everyone in Louisiana is totally convinced the cartoonists are wrong again about the Saints' hope of winning the Super Bowl. People are practically "wired for sound" around here they are so excited about this team. The Saints had a 44 year drought of misery and to see them win this much is like catnip candy.

The rest of this week's visual opinions were devoted mainly to the President's budget spending and cutbacks, especially NASA. Where the cartoonists really went off on was their anger against Toyota's arrogance in this million plus car recall. Toyota has been declaring customer satisfaction for decades - only now America is finding out they have been hiding the truth about their cars.

Now we find out recently that Toyota hasn't been properly reporting to the U.S. Dept. of Transportation as required by law. Then they continue to insist these same dangerous cars are safe. Toyota car owners need to demand a buy back from the manufacturer as these cars are dangerous to everyone on the road driving near them. Short of that the President better do something serious and fast before this spirals out of control. Can you hear the Toyota used car value falling like a rock? Drive those cars until the wheels fall off or get the parent company to take it back. It's called The Lemon Laws in America.

Just when Toyota thought they would get to surge ahead in the American market to capture a larger share and capitalize on General Motors' and Ford's share of bad karma repercussion slap-back - they now experience their very butt kick.

Check out this week's cartoons lampooning everyone in the news!

Super Bowl - the Saints against the Colts in Miami:

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Politics of the national budget wars and public frustration over both parties doing so little to alleviate suffering across America:

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Finally repealing the Don't Ask Don't Tell mandate which never made much sense anyway since just about everyone but the clueless knew who was or wasn't gay:

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Toyota recall debacle that just keeps on giving to the politicians, comedians and the cartoonists as fodder to keep the public stirred up:

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Prez Obama cutting back and downsizing NASA since these guys tend to be wasteful and have been for 40 years, treating the national wallet like it's a money tree. Choose your projects wisely and plan a lot more carefully, then stick to it and quit with the budget overruns. Obama's next stop needs to be the guys who build military aircraft:

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