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pan6467 · 08-03-2007, 08:46 AM

First they poison our pets now our kids..... and the masses don't seem to care. Just give us those goods cheap and fuck the consequences.

Hey Mattel was that cheap labor really worth the $30 million and horrid publicity??? Of course because you are the only game in town. There's Hasbro but they are just thanking China that it wasn't them also.

Why the fuck are we sending jobs overseas, importing food and anything for that matter from countries that want to see us dead? That hate our country and all that it once stood for? Why are we allowing our country to become more like them and giving them our jobs than standing tall and showing what freedom and the true US stands for?

I know it's all about the money and the idiot middle classers who believe the bullshit fed to them that sending jobs over for cheaper labor will actually make them richer.... got news for ya, how much money do you think Mattel is making right now?

link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070802...QsqGhH_r7Za7gF

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Chinese-made toy recall heightens US uproar over job losses

by Claire GallenThu Aug 2, 1:53 PM ET

A Fisher-Price recall of nearly one million Chinese-made toys, the latest in a series of similar scandals, is ratcheting up already high American resentment against the offshoring of jobs.

Mattel's Fisher-Price announced late Wednesday it was recalling 967,000 toys made in China that are suspected of containing paint tainted with illegally high levels of toxic lead.

The recall includes around 80 items, including popular Sesame Street and Dora the Explorer toys, sold in US stores between May and August this year.

It was the latest of a slew of cases involving shoddily made and dangerous products imported from China.

In June US toy importer RC2 Corp. recalled 1.5 million wooden "Thomas the Train" figures that had lead-based paint.

Americans also have reeled under the scandal of tainted pet food that killed thousands of dogs and cats, reports of toothpaste containing antifreeze and shrimp contaminated with banned drugs.

On Thursday, China's commerce minister, Bo Xilai, said that "more than 99 percent of the products China exports are of good quality and are safe."

But indignation is rising in the United States.

"The Chinese, for the very last penny, will endanger people at levels that are fully irresponsible," said Peter Morici, an economics professor at the University of Maryland.

The economist, a sharp critic of Chinese trade policies, said that Americans so far have not revolted against Chinese products for one simple reason: "We haven't had any children dying."

"Unfortunately, we have to have a tragedy, and that said, the evidence is plain: Don't buy anything from China that you put in your mouth, or that you put in the hands of children."

That sentiment is spreading, but avoiding products made in China, where low-cost labor makes them cheap in the United States, may not be as easy as it sounds.

In "A year without 'Made in China,'" an opinion piece in The Christian Science Monitor, journalist Sara Bongiorni described how she and her family decided to live for one year without buying any Chinese-made items.

Recalling fruitless shopping trips and athletic shoes that were too expensive, the writer concluded: "After a year without China I can tell you this: You can still live without it, but it's getting trickier and costlier by the day.

"And a decade from now I may not be brave enough to try it again."

Americans heavily depend on Chinese-made products, an appetite that pushed the trade gap with China to a massive 233 billion dollars in 2006.

That dependency has been accompanied by Americans' growing complaint in recent years that China is behind the loss of US industrial jobs to overseas markets.

On Thursday the calls for action mounted.

"It is urgent that Congress adopts a comprehensive policy response to combat China's unfair, mercantilist trading practices," said Auggie Tantillo, executive director of the American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition.

But it is difficult to have leverage with the Chinese giant, as US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson again experienced this week in China, winding up almost empty-handed Wednesday after seeking a reevaluation of the yuan.

Democratic lawmakers accuse the Republican administration of President George W. Bush of inertia on the subject, particularly in stopping short of officially accusing China of deliberately manipulating its currency to maintain an unfair trade advantage.

The Democrats are vying to passing a law that would force the Treasury to take a tougher line with China. The measure was approved Wednesday by the Senate Banking Committee, and according to experts has a good chance of being passed by Congress.

People for the love of our children and the future of this country, start caring, start doing something before we can't, before we have no choice, before our children curse us for the world we left them.