Mercutio said: I will not allow my daughter to accept any toys from China for either her birthday (last month) or Christmas and that I will return any gift that says “Made in China.

And this is something I have been saying
for a long time. Stop buying China! I don’t want to invest my money into a Communist country that has no regard for it’s own people let alone ours.

BrianF1967 said:
While I put some blame on the chinese manufacturer I also have to put blame on the toy company itself.

I agree everyone involved should take resonsibility but believe it or not their are inspector’s for the toy companies but as soon as they leave goverment officials are being bribed by the manufactuer, their intertwined. How do you fix corruption in China if the government it’s self is involved? It really comes down to the consumer taking action.

After much thought at every incidence of recall This is my opinion and It’s probably going to resemble a Rosie wacko rant but I have put much thought into this theory so here goes.
We have had recall’s of Wheat, Ceral, Dog Food, Toy’s, More Toy’s and even more toys. The fact is that the Chinese do not have our well being in mind. This is a Communist country that represses it’s own people. They don’t care about your’s or anyone else’s kid’s. The poisining of the American public is beneficial to the Chinese (keep your friend’s close and your enemies even closer.) Wake up America we are the enemy, the Chinese are trying to hijack the American Economy by currency manipulation. They are testing the water’s of what they can get away with probing our systems for vunerabilies, they threaten to shoot nuclear weapon’s at us, they attempt to poison the food supply and last but not least they ship in lead and drugs for our kid’s to consume. This sound’s kinda like a war, well it is and many do not even realize their helping our enemies destroy us from with in.
rant over

IF YOU SUPPORT CHINA YOU SUPPORT COMMUNISM

Remember Dan Ackroyd’s “Irwin Mainway” sketch with Candace Bergen on SNL back in the 70s? As a scheister toy peddler, he had such kid favorites as:

- “Johnny Switchblade: Adventure Punk”
- “Bag O’ Glass”
- “Bag O’ Nails”
- “Bag O’ Bugs”
- “Bag O’ Vipers”
- “Bag O’ Sulfuric Acid”
- “Teddy Chainsaw Bear”

Now we’ve got:

- “Leaded teeth”
- “Bits o’Lead Paint fun”
- “Aqua-rhohypnol dots”

When will we wake up and hold China to task. We’re already at war with them…and the casualties will be our kids if we don’t change our M.O.

To see what comes from China:
http://www.made-in-china.com/prod/catlist/

But the list of items recalled for being out and out dangerous or even deadly, even just this year, is long, and probably mostly forgotten by the public:
toothpaste
bracelets
tires
all sorts of faulty electrical items
baby toys
seafood and other fish
dogfood
furniture
etc., etc., etc.

Maybe we could move these industries to Mexico, hire the illegals from this country to work there, and kill two birds with one stone.

One thing is for sure: the manufacturers do not pass on their substantial savings to us, but we get crappy, unregulated goods in return.

My baby is getting nothing from China…

One of the many issues that my 10 yo ‘aquired’ from her birth mom. Pica. She constantly has non food items in her mouth. From markers and paper to any type of plastic.. heck one day she chewed up her brother’s game boy ac adapter cord… while it was plugged in. She liked the buzz on her tongue. If she doesn’t end up a smoker I’ll be freaking amazed.

Heck ADULTS chew stuff they shouldn’t. Walk around an office and count chewed pencils and pen caps.

The reality is that these toys are unsafe for anyone at any age.

So PG is either a troll… or seriously not thinking this one through.

I’d rather pay 3x what we are paying now for toys and keep the manufacture of them in the U.S. or in countries we haven’t had problems with in the past.

This is getting ridiculous

…..while they continue to poison us.

Apparently the Cold War isn’t over. I can only imagine what the ol’ Soviets have up their sleeves.

But I’m not surprised at all of this with China. The society’s of that Region put a differnt value on life than the west. Though I wonder how much of this is concern for the children, or politics on the Hill. After all look at the Schip bill, it played on the emotions of the Populance, could these events have received so much attention in an attempt to start an unofficial trade sanction on China? DC could never get the votes with the UN, but the American people decide what and who they buy from.

What concerns me is the fact the PRC is increasing trade elsewhere in hindsight of this. Still Drugs in toys is bad, more so with rape drugs. Think I read somewhere unsurprisingly that Teens were hoarding the stuff for said purpose, if I find the artical I’ll post it here. But thankfully a small number of tainted products recalled given all we recived. Besides the PRC doesn’t need to posion the children, just sponser a ceritian someone for president and let them finish the US.

Whats sad is if we do get goods elsewhere I doubt they will say USA again like they used too.

The comments are justifiably full of anger with these Chinese manufacturers who seem to be cutting corners without a care. But the toy companies bear just as much of the responsibility. It is their toy and their name on the product. I feel the biggest message could be made by boycotting their products entirely, Chinese made or not.