Toyota Sees First Annual Loss Since 1950

HSSteenent 12:18:08 PM Feb 09 2009

If the Domestic car companies can produce a car of comparable value for the same price as A foreign tag. Then why do we critisize them for being able to pay their workers more? What difference does it make to the consumer? It sounds like the foreign badges are short changing their workers to me. I thought we wanted to work for companies that gave their workers a better deal. What's with the jealousy?

HSSteenent 11:46:07 AM Feb 09 2009

You wish for your fellow Americans to buy your product or service but you abandon them for a foreign cheaper product. Then you cry foul because someone calls you on it, all the while contributing to the conditions which make it impossible to find a made in America product. Just one example of how this happens, back when Americans invented flat screens and a handfull of startups were making them Toshiba flooded the market with below cost screens and bankrupted the competition. So who's fault is it if those who want to buy American can't. How is the lack of available American wares justification for more of the same?

Christi333 10:06:15 AM Feb 08 2009

leedirella1979 08:56:48 PM Feb 06 2009 - All these people who say buy American company automobiles are the same ones who buyJapanese manufactored television sets, cellular telephones, and audio equipment. If they are so patriotic, why do they purchase these other items? *** IT MAKES A HUGE DIFFERNCE. MIcorsoft, Mac, Dell, ATT they are all AMerican companies. Their profit is spent in AMERICA! they support our education programs and music and art and local events and museums.. Forgegn companies do NONE of that! BUY FROM AMERICAN COMPANIES! IT DOES MATTER!!

MSen121324 06:54:24 AM Feb 08 2009

Crimson00King 08:22:27 PM Feb 06 2009 re this idiotic quote!!! Have buddy you sound like a prejudice person!!! does this type of action also go for the color of one skin or hair color. What kind of tvs do you own in your "trailor?" r they american made? I do not think so . YOU ARE A HYPOCRITE!!!!!Report This! Good it is time American stop buying these rice burners the people who own them are traitors and should be treated as such. I DO NOT allow any import parked near my home. I will never let one in in high trafic either. I will ask my waitors and waitresses what kind of car they drive and I will tip accordingly

MACKSWORLD 09:13:35 PM Feb 07 2009

Toyota halts production at its Alabama plant and assigns its workers to push a broom instead of laying them off. yeah right...sounds awful like a jobs bank to me. Toyota and the southern and western senators railed against aid for Detroit citing the "jobs bank" as the ill that caused all. Well guess what. Nobody is buying Toyotas either...I hope they fail and Alabama gets hammered by 10 hurricanes next year and you need government help. Bet that would change your s****y attitude!

MACKSWORLD 05:59:34 PM Feb 07 2009

This is good news. My how the mighty has fallen! After years of hearing how great Toyota Trash is, its their turn to stand in the soup line. I wonder how the folks in the South will feel when they too need to get bailed out !!! What goes around...

CPatAustin 10:30:10 AM Feb 07 2009

CJS, you state that America's poor and hungry are growing at an enormous rate. That's not true, but even if it were, that's nothing that contraception wouldn't cure.

CPatAustin 10:28:25 AM Feb 07 2009

Ironman, if Congress allows the "Buy American" provisions into the stimulus package, overpaid unions like the UAW are only going to maintain their hardline about refusing to get paid like other autoworkers. Why should the taxpayers subsidize them?

CPatAustin 10:26:38 AM Feb 07 2009

I get a kick out of some of the non-economists whining about globalism. When's the last time you went out of your way to pay more for a product that was domestically made? It sure didn't help matters when that local labor, as in the UAW, demanded wages and benefits out of line with what other employers were paying their local workers. You can only ignore the laws of the marketplace for so long before you fold. Given a choice, American consumers like to get more for less. Who wouldn't?

CPatAustin 10:25:22 AM Feb 07 2009

I get a kick out of some of the non-economists whining about globalism. When's the last time you went out of your way to pay more for a product that was domestically made? It sure didn't help matters when that local labor, as in the UAW, demanded wages and benefits out of line with what other employers were paying their local workers. You can only ignore the laws of the marketplace for so long before you fold. Given a choice, American consumers like to get more for less. Who wouldn't?