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Personally, I do not think it is a conspiracy. The government would have to have it's own people within Toyota or Toyota's people in their pockets somehow which although is totally possible, I don't think it makes sense. Just as was stated before, Toyota makes a lot of its cars in the United States (the Toyota Sienna is the third car on Automobile magazine's list of the percentage of cars made in the U.S. with like 83% of production/assembly done here), beat out only by the Grand Marquis and Crown Victoria at like 89%).

With that said, producing cars in the U.S. increases our GDP! Increasing our GDP helps benefit our economy! I do not doubt for a second that there are conspiracies surrounding our entrance into various wars (what weapons of mass destruction?), but if the effort here is to save U.S. jobs by keeping GM afloat and help our economy, I can't see the government hurting our economy to do that. REMEMBER: Toyota provides U.S. jobs, contributes to our GDP, and greatly impacts our economy. If Toyota went under, the U.S.'s GDP would fall, thousands of jobs would be lost, and our economy would be negatively affected.

I do not totally dismiss the theory OBEE, but I just don't see the government cutting off it's ring finger to save the index.