Chinese Toys

[Smiling JOe]

Ok Thisd thread is officially over.

To sum up, Bill Clinton/Geo. Bush are not directly responsible for lead paint in toys or defectrive tires. The business community can carry 75% of the blame, personal responsibility needs to be stepped up a bit.

Personal responsibility is everyone's responsibility--whether you are a Democrat or Republican . People have the power.

To a great extent, I agree. Businesses are the ones who profit from the cheaper Chinese products, and in some of there savings, they should have there own people inspecting the products being shipped to them, with their own name stamped into the products. I enjoy creating things, one item being soap. I took some samples to someone in the industry to get some opinions. The first thing I was told was that if I take my products to market, that I would need to be able to fill the orders, and that there was no way in hell that I could do it at a cost which would sell. I was instructed to bid out contracts to Chinese companies, giving them my specs. While I understand what they were saying, I stopped that idea right there. Without having someone working for me, overseeing the production, there is no way I would do that, especially if the products were being produced oversees, far away from me, where I cannot easily check on them often, ensuring quality ingredient standards. If I have to take on the liability of the products, I want to know, without a doubt, that the proper high-quality ingredients are being used. As hnooe says, the businesses need to be ensuring the quality and standards of their own products, and without doing so, they need to pony up the money when the lawsuits start rolling in.

 

[SON]

Add to China poison toys

Poison clothes

www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f66851fc-4f48-11dc-b485-0000779fd2ac.html

and

http://au.biz.yahoo.com/070821/20/1d1xg.html

 

[BeachSteelers]

I blame all our elected officials, but Willie signed that deal. It would require W. to read it before he could repeal the treaty. And W. doesn't read anything! And yes we need to look in the Mirror to see who's also to blame.WalMart shoppers Unite! But our Gov't made it easy for Corpoations to take advantage of us and chinese labor. So we only deal with Communist countries when a profit is to be made! And only overthrow regimes that have stockpiles of Oil! Can't deal with Cuba but everything chinese is good to go. No wonder this Nation is the most Hypocritical in the World. We say one thing and our actions say another.
Affordable housing... gotta have illegal labor. Encourage freedom unless We can make a buck there! Attack Countries harboring Terrorists....ah our Puppet Mussaraff and the House of Saud can handle it. We want to have the Cake make others make and bake the ingredients, use someone else's oven, an illegal for frosting and a legal immigrant to serve it to us. Then we ***** like Martha when it takes like POOP.

Be nice if a real leader would step up and run for president cause non of the Knuckleheads running now can help us out of the mess WE started.

 

[Smiling JOe]

I blame all our elected officials, but Willie signed that deal. It would require W. to read it before he could repeal the treaty. And W. doesn't read anything! And yes we need to look in the Mirror to see who's also to blame.WalMart shoppers Unite!

That is very true today, but it seems like I recall reading that when Sam started the business, he refused to sell non-American made items, and he was still able to turn a profit. Now, it is difficult to find much of anything sold at Wal-mart made in the USA, and I'm not talking about Usa China.

 

[scooterbug44]

Thank you Slick Willie, that free trade agreement you signed with China seems to be working out well. He's the reason why we've exported manufacturing jobs to a nation that sells missiles to whomever has the cash, jail political dissenters and pay wages of a dollar a day. Sure seems like a good move now doesn't Bill! Flooding the US market will products that have NO Inspections or oversite. You can't lay this one on W. Although he's done plenty of stupid things too.
Presidential Treaties do not have to be voted on by congress. So everyone be ready for the North American Union. Canada, USA and Mexico under one currency, open borders and free movement of goods and people.
Wake up we've been sold out again.

No, YOU sold yourself out! Everything from underwear to toys to produce has a tag that says where it was made/grown so it's easy to make a choice about where you're buying from. Odd, you didn't mind the cheap Chinese goods until you realized you were getting EXACTLY what you'd paid for.