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Made In America Safeness Versus Chinese Made Cheapness

August 14, 2007 ⋅  E-Mail Article ⋅  Print Article ⋅ Post a comment

Toymaker Mattel is voluntarily recalling 9 million of its toys in the United States based on safety issues involving your children. A leading health official stated, “Lead is toxic if ingested by young children and can cause adverse health effects…Lead paint can cause vomiting, anemia and even neurological damage.” The toys being recalled include popular characters such as Batman, Barbie, Polly Pockets and a toy from Pixar’s “Cars” movie. The recall is happening because of hazards to American children brought on by the cheap and potentially irresponsible importing of cheap Chinese made products supplied because of outsourcing practices by American companies. Is this how low we have sunk as a species? We are willing to trade the health of our own children for the prospect of a few pennies more in profit? Is your eternal soul worth saving a dollar on each product made? Isn’t it better to build it safely here in America and know you will not face potential lawsuits on down the line? Also think about the cost of recalls, the bad publicity, and the cost of remanufacturing, it all adds up to make outsourcing a pretty bad deal doesn’t it? The recent toy recall was confirmed by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Tuesday. Chinese deadly imports such as lead painted toys and leisure items, deadly toothpaste, and unsafe farm fed fish are all just the tip of the iceberg as many now see that China may be nothing more than a potential litigation move when you consider the potential of slave labor fabrication and unskilled manufacturing. It seems like America has done nothing in the past six years but make imports deadly and illegal aliens even deadlier as the Newark School children murders illustrate. Just what is going on here in America? When will a leader step up and help America reclaim its greatness and end all of the outsourcing and importing as well as all of the illegal immigration? Who will save us?

Before you go bashing President Bush remember it was under President Clinton that the U.S. normalized trade relations with China and since this time Americans have lost their jobs and paid the price for receiving dangerous Chinese imports. .Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama recently stated, “the center of gravity in this world is shifting to Asia…China is rising and it’s not going away…They’re neither our enemy nor our friend. They’re competitors.” They want your jobs as bad as they want to breathe and they will cut costs in any way they can and they have no problem selling your children potentially deadly items because they know the repercussions will not reach them based on public relations work done by outsourcing American companies. However, we must ask ourselves, at what price are we willing to go to squeeze a little more profit?

Many say that superheated China is failing to live up to its responsibility as an emerging global superpower. At least Obama was man enough to say, “We’ve got to have a president in the White House who’s negotiating to make sure that we’re looking after American workers. That means enforcing our trade agreements. It means that if they’re manipulating their currency, that we take them to the mat on this issue.”

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