Government Bias

[Dari]

“This unprecedented resolution with Hyundai and Kia underscores the Justice Department’s firm commitment to safeguarding American consumers, ensuring fairness in every marketplace, protecting the environment, and relentlessly pursuing companies that make misrepresentations and violate the law,” said Attorney General Eric Holder. “This type of conduct quite simply will not be tolerated. And the Justice Department will never rest or waver in our determination to take action against any company that engages in such activities – whenever and wherever they are uncovered.”

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That quote was the garbage Eric Holder told the American people. He probably felt all high and mighty when writing that.

Hyundai/Kia fined for a total of $300m in cash and credit.

But Ford was also caught lying about the mpg claims in their cars. Nothing happened to them.

GM's cars may have killed hundreds of people and they got fined for only $30m.

Toyota's fabled unintended acceleration cost them $1.2B.

See the trend? When it's a foreign firm behaving badly, fines go up astronomically. When it's a domestic firm, crickets.

 

[cubby1223]

Domestic corporations get to fund political campaigns. Foreign corporations don't.

Russia targets McDonald's, but, it's like our gov't behaves similarly too.

I wonder if American plants operating in the Republican South rather than the Democratic Union North has any influence. Kia's in Georgia, Hyundai in Alabama. Like if the VW plant had unionized, would they be treated better by the gov't because of it?