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Starks
11-06-2007, 05:33 PM
Short of placing an impractical embargo on Chinese products, what should be done?
murrayrothbard
11-06-2007, 05:36 PM
uh don't buy them? problem solved
kylejack
11-06-2007, 05:38 PM
Remove laws encumbering local toy companies that keep them from being competitive with Chinese companies.
pcosmar
11-06-2007, 05:38 PM
Don't buy them.
If you have bought them, throw them away.
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pcosmar
11-06-2007, 05:41 PM
Define "unsafe toy". I am 50, I never had a bike helmet, and started shooting a rifle at 4yrs.
kylejack
11-06-2007, 05:42 PM
Define "unsafe toy". I am 50, I never had a bike helmet, and started shooting a rifle at 4yrs.
Toys covered with lead, formeldyhyde and other harmful substances.
Corydoras
11-06-2007, 05:46 PM
Toy safety seal of confidence comparable to Underwriters Laboratories.
Meatwasp
11-06-2007, 05:46 PM
We made are own toys for the boys when they were little and they are grown men now and they still have some of them to remember. Great fun for the whole family!
Zarxrax
11-06-2007, 05:52 PM
Well just look at what is happening right now. Clearly, any sort of government regulations have utterly FAILED to keep all these toys with lead paint out of the market. But there is now a media uproar and all of the toy companies are checking on their stuff to make sure that their products are safe. A toy company can not afford to have a reputation that there product is unsafe. Parents would go mad crazy. They would go bankrupt in an instant.
pcosmar
11-06-2007, 05:56 PM
Toys covered with lead, formeldyhyde and other harmful substances.

Oh, I am not sure what ours were painted with.
But then I grew up with PCB,s Dioxin and DDT.

http://www.tc.umn.edu/~allch001/1815/pestcide/sim/ddt-long-isl-1945.jpg

http://www.granitegrok.com/pix/DDT.jpg
RP4ME
11-06-2007, 05:57 PM
I think Consumer groups should be formed to monitor this....and the consumers can decide with their wallet!
dmitchell
11-06-2007, 06:02 PM
Sue the shit out of Mattel/Fisher-Price. Problem solved.
kylejack
11-06-2007, 06:04 PM
Sue the shit out of Mattel/Fisher-Price. Problem solved.

Yep.
Stacey S
11-06-2007, 06:54 PM
Don't worry, the end of cheap oil will solve allot of problems concerning overseas. Everything will be local.
Marceline88
11-06-2007, 07:03 PM
Don't buy cheap chinese toys from WalMart. Might I suggest Playmobil, a lovely toyline made in Germany that I love. :O) Not coated in cheap lead paints.
Bradley in DC
11-06-2007, 07:19 PM
Parental responsibility? :rolleyes:
pcosmar
11-06-2007, 07:33 PM
Parental responsibility?
DING !! DING !! DING !!!
We have a winner.
fsk
11-06-2007, 10:00 PM
Eliminate "tort reform". Retailers should be fully responsible for what's on their shelves, if a customer is injured. Importers should be fully responsible for what they import.

Seriously, if corporations have no liability when the import poisoned toys, why should they care?
jumpyg1258
11-06-2007, 10:03 PM
How bout parents stop spoiling their kids these days? Sounds like a good solution to me. Gawd when I was a kid, I was lucky to get a dollar "allowance" a week which really was just them paying me to do almost everything around the house.

Just about every kid I see these days reminds me of Eric Cartman from south park.
CurtisLow
11-06-2007, 10:39 PM
http://img385.imageshack.us/img385/1194/amcreturntosendereq1.jpg
Then just say no thanks..