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Posted By helenephoto 1 year, 9 months ago in NewsThe CDC recalled more than 600,000 toys today. All were made in China and include more of the popular Thomas the train.
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TechnologyExpert1 year, 9 months ago
Here's what I would say ... it will never end! For various reasons ... I mean, we can apologize all we want (Mattel apologized to China, right) but realistically ... it's "you get what you pay for." We want cheap cheap cheap and that means cut corners.
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netgreg1 year, 9 months ago
American company's can try to cover their backside with as many phony apologies imaginable but the bottom line is that the only thing that will make a difference in the end is to hit them where it hurts, in the pocket! Don't give them your money until they commit to providing us a worthy product! One made here in the USA!
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saintetienne1 year, 9 months ago
More cheap, dangerous junk from the militaristic nation with an appalling human rights record, and, with the most polluted air on Earth, has the gall to demand that we sign the Kyoto Treaty.
Wake up people. Look at the label before you buy junk for your brats. Stop supporting China and the companies that do business with them (Wal-Mart, Mattel). Buy American for crying out loud, and help out our own economy and our own workers. It may cost a bit more in the short term, but in the long run, we'll ALL be better off.
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evelyna1 year, 9 months ago
This can be used as a wakeup call for the young. The reason all of the other countries are more educated then we are is because their parents do not give them toys.
Time to put all foolishness aside. Put your twaddlers on the p.c to learn calculus and chemistry.
Toys are a waste. They end up in the trash sooner or later.
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Charlson1 year, 9 months ago
" Time to put all foolishness aside. Put your twaddlers on the p.c to learn calculus and chemistry."
You realize that many of the parts in your PC was made in china?
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tkyrchncs1 year, 9 months ago
1. Take ALL the toys and kids' stuff made in China off the shelves.
2. Check it all out and put back on the shelves what is tested to be safe.
3. Begin IMMEDIATELY to test products for shipment to the US IN CHINA and do not allow unsafe products to be shipped here.
I do not hold the Chinese responsible for this, importing dangerous goods is the problem. We can have no control over what is produced, but we by golly can get to those responsible for their being here.
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saneman1 year, 9 months ago
The American companies provide the specs for every one of their products to the Chinese, and if anybody knows anything about the Chinese, they follow the specs to the letter.
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Teech1 year, 9 months ago
You morons just don't understand basic business and corporate principles.
Employees are a liability, not an asset. They are are drain on profits. The cheaper the goods I import, the more profit I can make. China, Indonesia, I don't care, Walmart will take all I can import and customers fight each other to save a buck. The fewer employees I need to distribute these imported goods, the better. I NEVER pay for benefits that the few employees I have can pay for themselves. If they don't like it or can't live on what I pay them, tough. They can quit whenever they want since I have an unlimited pool of undocumented workers to choose from that will work for minimum wage. My President, G.B., keeps our borders open, and has given me huge incentives to outsource and has cut both my personal and corporate taxes by thousands! This enables me to send most of my profits to my offshore accounts. Hey, it's just business, don't take it personally.
Listen to your President. Go shopping!
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HateKoolAid1 year, 9 months ago
I think I get your point Teech. I read somewhere, where our own government okayed the same problem related products EXPORTED to third world countries. Capitalism = Bottom line. Buyer beware.
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dissent1 year, 9 months ago
Ah, I see you've made a breakthrough!!
The truth is not too far from it. People are influenced by friends, family, culture and government. How these influences are categorized is what marketing and advertising people call demographics. They're measured by your age, sex, education, occupation, locality, race, socio-economic group. Online questionaires we all bump into are about measuring a market to determine the best way to break through its defenses and make it spend.
This is what mostly makes up our culture today. It's a consumerist culture, and it kicks butt. I don't see too many people opting out of the consumerist race to not have the latest this or that. What I do see is queues of people that stretch for blocks and days to buy the new iPhone or the latest Playstation. And you're trying to convince us that the consumer has the power. Maybe, if they were more savvy and didn't give in to making purchases for reasons that are more than just wanting or needing it.
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dissent1 year, 9 months ago
Just to conclude, your argument has a simplistic logic too it, but it's also very naive and doesn't consider the often contradictory complexity of human beings and what motivates them to buy something. Meanwhile, marketing and advertising make it their speciality to take just that and only that into account.
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jumpmaster1 year, 9 months ago
It is as simple as that. No individual or company will change behavior unless they have to. When you hit a person or a business in the wallet, the smart ones will change. The stupid ones will file bankruptcy or go out of business.
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HMMace1 year, 9 months ago
To all thise companys from the states that make thier wares in china, I say--"Sell them to the chinese"..
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Macondo1 year, 9 months ago
Our legislators endorse all kinds of trade with China while create obstacles for free trade with our Latin American neighbors and other friends.
Hypocrisy we pay for.
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Mr-opinion1 year, 9 months ago
WHAT GIVES - are there rules on how we may get poisend
Interestingly the US has some if not the most stringent laws when it comes to xtoys, yet we rate among the highest in children death rates, we have all kinds of food and drug rules, yet have a below average life expectancy of industrial nations. We are worried about toxic paint, but have no problem feeding our people questionable food from genetic/hormone feed animals and plants w/ chemical additives some known as toxic
I am going to p*** a few people off, but we are dumping out the baby with the bath water. Yes lead is toxic, however most of us 40 grew up with it all around us and managed to get this old just fine.
Waterpipes until ten years ago were soldered with lead. There is lead exposure all around us, and though I agree in minimizing it, I don't see the need for this huge 'panic' - because I am curious what it realy adds to the true overall exposure.
Yes check into the toys, but don't just recal on a possibility
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