Anyone drive recent model Toyota Tacomas?

[Frosty]

My Chevy Silverado was built in Canada. Tacomas are built in Texas.

[KCFaninSEA]

Originally Posted by Frosty

My Chevy Silverado was built in Canada. Tacomas are built in Texas.

My Chevy was assembled by union labor in Detroit. Sticker still on the door jam. Toyota's assembled in a right to work (for less) state while paying a hard working American barely minimum wage to send all the profits to a foreign country. Americans make chump change while businesses from other countries reap the rewards of our hard work and we just keep on buying it.

I hate foreign business. That is a huge problem with our economy.

I bought my 2004 Duramax 4 door for about $35,000 and have barely had to put anything but tires and my personal upgrades on it. I wouldn't trade it for any other truck.

[Mr. Flopnuts]

Originally Posted by KCFaninSEA

My Chevy was assembled by union labor in Detroit. Sticker still on the door jam. Toyota's assembled in a right to work (for less) state while paying a hard working American barely minimum wage to send all the profits to a foreign country. Americans make chump change while businesses from other countries reap the rewards of our hard work and we just keep on buying it.

I hate foreign business. That is a huge problem with our economy.

I bought my 2004 Duramax 4 door for about $35,000 and have barely had to put anything but tires and my personal upgrades on it. I wouldn't trade it for any other truck.

Toyota has a plant in Princeton, IN that is THE place everyone in the Evansville area wants to work. Their damned security guards make over $13 an hour. So that's not necessarily true.

[KCFaninSEA]

Originally Posted by Mr. Flopnuts

Toyota has a plant in Princeton, IN that is THE place everyone in the Evansville area wants to work. Their damned security guards make over $13 an hour. So that's not necessarily true.

Where I live minimum wage is almost $10 an hour so $13 isn't much better. I wouldn't be surprised if the plant workers made $17 or so but then what do they have to pay for health care? $200-$300 a month which would equal to about $1-$2 an hour off of that. So if they make $15 an hour x 2080 hours per year, that is only a little over$30,000 per year. Sorry but that isn't a great living when these companies are making billions of dollars of profit on the backs of American workers. Don't even get me started on retirement.

[bevischief]

Originally Posted by KCFaninSEA

My Chevy was assembled by union labor in Detroit. Sticker still on the door jam. Toyota's assembled in a right to work (for less) state while paying a hard working American barely minimum wage to send all the profits to a foreign country. Americans make chump change while businesses from other countries reap the rewards of our hard work and we just keep on buying it.

I hate foreign business. That is a huge problem with our economy.

I bought my 2004 Duramax 4 door for about $35,000 and have barely had to put anything but tires and my personal upgrades on it. I wouldn't trade it for any other truck.

How many millions did they have to take to keep from going under?

[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by KCFaninSEA

Toyota's assembled in a right to work (for less) state while paying a hard working American barely minimum wage to send all the profits to a foreign country.

Not true. I know several people that work at Toyota in San Antonio. They make a nice wage and are living the American dream.

[KCFaninSEA]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

Not true. I know several people that work at Toyota in San Antonio. They make a nice wage and are living the American dream.

Their definition of the American dream may be quite a bit different than mine. If they are content, then that is great. $30,000 - $40,000 per year where I live doesn't get you much. Geography does play into it quite a bit. I just look at a company, for example Campbells soup. It wasn't long ago a can of soup was $.99. While the cost of that can of soup has gone up to $2.69, which is over a 150% increase, the wages for the workers has stayed stagnate or in some cases gone down over the last few years. At some point corporations will put themselves out of business because the earned wages will not be enough to pay for items that are overpriced just to make more profit rather than distribute some of those profits to all workers of the company.

Sorry I did not intend to hijack this mans thread for my rant.

[Mosbonian]

Originally Posted by KCFaninSEA

Their definition of the American dream may be quite a bit different than mine. If they are content, then that is great. $30,000 - $40,000 per year where I live doesn't get you much. Geography does play into it quite a bit. I just look at a company, for example Campbells soup. It wasn't long ago a can of soup was $.99. While the cost of that can of soup has gone up to $2.69, which is over a 150% increase, the wages for the workers has stayed stagnate or in some cases gone down over the last few years. At some point corporations will put themselves out of business because the earned wages will not be enough to pay for items that are overpriced just to make more profit rather than distribute some of those profits to all workers of the company.

Sorry I did not intend to hijack this mans thread for my rant.

Guess I'll have to tell my neighbors who work at the plant here in Georgetown they aren't really living the American Dream. I'm sure most of them will feel really bad about how they are living....must be rough to be able to afford nice vacations, boats, and houses that are in very nice neighborhoods.