Asides from the lobby groups, there's also that the issue is wear flaw (ie, gradual issue) but being presented as a sudden behaviour, and the mean age of those who have apparently been affected is 60+.<p>Toyota sell a lot of cars all over the world. Nowhere in the west has covered this to the state I saw while In the US, nor with the same vitriolic language - NBC news talking about how Toyota might be called in front of congress to explain the flaw. The only think I can think of to explain this is bitterness at the demise of the US auto industry in the 80s.
"This is not what Madison and Jefferson had in mind. Their vision was of a strictly limited government, which would perform one basic function, guard individual rights. Its role was to protect the individual’s rights to life, liberty, and property from infringement by thugs and frauds, while otherwise leaving people free to produce and trade in a free market."<p>I don't recall having read anything by Madison or Jefferson that mentioned "free market trade". It certainly isn't spelled out in my constitution. Was such a concept even recognized as we understand it today at that point in history?
much better skeptical article with numbers to back it up minus libertarian bs <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1186609" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1186609</a>