With All The Recalls, Will You Buy Fewer Toys For Your Kids?

I would try to buy as many toys, but, only, if not made in China.

Might be the best thing that has happened for American manufacturers and kids that are over saturated with toys.

if you look in other threads on a2k, you can find plenty of 1984 fans, so why am i the only person that thinks "damn, what just went in the memory hole?" the more he reads about chinese recalls?

this is a prelude to something, right? a way to punish them for spying on us? haven't we (the usa) been doubling our spying efforts every year for the past few years? don't get me wrong, i'd never choose china a place to live, this just all seems really odd- as if china suddenly stopped doing quality control. it's not like they ever seemed to have quality control in the past...

in fact, i think we do more business with them than could possibly be healthy, but only because corporations like walmart end up getting all the money from goods not made in the usa, and where does the money go?

but then i'm probably just not cynical enough to understand. i mean, i'd rather people make the informed decision to stop doing tons of business with chinese goods, rather than be scared into it over some very strange series of sudden coincidences.

oh, and don't buy from jewish stores!

Geez. I hadn't thought of that. I usually spend 300.00-500.00 at the dollar store for the Toys for Tots program during Christmas. But now...

Re: With All The Recalls, Will You Buy Fewer Toys For Your K

I don 't have any kids,
but when my girlfriend, Maralyn, lived with me, with her daughter
( between ages 2 & 4 ) I used to buy her toys.

I believe that u have analysed the applicable logic accurately.
Its a question of the kid not being harmed by the newly acquired toy.
Given THAT, it is a matter of making the kid 's life as happy as possible;
that 's what life is FOR.
David

unless of course, the parents have something against capitalism, in which case the child should be immediately removed and taken to an americanization facility so he can enjoy life the way HE IS EXPECTED TO!

heh.

U raise an interesting point.

If a child calls the police and complains,
is it child abuse to be raised in a socialist environment ?

A socialist is worse than a drunk, or a dope addict.
What if the kid denounces his parents as unAmerican perverts
( like the communists who lived next door to me about 60 years ago )
and demands his freedom
to go and live in a normal family that supports freedom,
individualism, and l'aissez faire free enterprize ?
( if he has access to such a family )


or if his parents are Nazis,
and he rejects their point of vu ?
Shud he have to put up with that, against his will ?

David

Do the kids refuse to accept more toys ?

( saying: " enuf is ENUF ! KNOCK IT OFF ! " )