Comments on: A Government Motors Recall https://barelyablog.com/a-government-motors-recall/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: james huggins https://barelyablog.com/a-government-motors-recall/comment-page-1/#comment-9285 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:11:41 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=22406#comment-9285 An auto company operated by the government is not necessarily prone to quality recalls. But, when one considers the record of incompetence, failure and corruption that follows the efforts of the government to operate anything larger than a hot dog stand we should not be surprised at GM’s flubbery.

]]> By: Myron Pauli https://barelyablog.com/a-government-motors-recall/comment-page-1/#comment-9275 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:02:19 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=22406#comment-9275 I would not be surprised if there were more accidents due to people driving unfamiliar loaner cars during these Mega-recalls than from the less than 0.01 percent flaws of people driving their own cars.

Government has no authority to be in the car (or any other) business. They should operate courts to adjudicate legitimate tort claims of negligence when such arise.

]]> By: robert https://barelyablog.com/a-government-motors-recall/comment-page-1/#comment-9273 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:11:27 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=22406#comment-9273 “Will Toyota’s inquisitors subject the state-owned manufacturer to the Rack?”

Depends on whether they are designated as potential terrorists or not. The rack and screw were the milder forms of state sponsored enhanced interogation techniques so popular today in the perpetual war against terrorists. If nothing else, the occassion can be used to demonstrate our procilivity of mistaking torture for a truth seeking necessity.

]]> By: Robert Glisson https://barelyablog.com/a-government-motors-recall/comment-page-1/#comment-9269 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:23:18 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=22406#comment-9269 They’re too busy concentrating on tearing down Toyota. “http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100302/ap_on_bi_ge/toyota_recall” to concern themselves with that, even though the GM recall is approximately the same size as Toyota’s.

]]> By: George Pal https://barelyablog.com/a-government-motors-recall/comment-page-1/#comment-9267 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:32:19 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=22406#comment-9267 Take into account the possibility the godawful Toyoda inquisition was nothing more than the protagonists chewing the scenery in a scripted melodrama and you are left with the very real possibility that all these recalls are government inspired make work programs.

Obama administration unveils new economic plan that will save two million jobs: “boost the economy – break a window”.

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