Corporate America apologizes wtf

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midcan5

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I love Corporate America they just don't love our children

In a world in which your stock price matters more than the safety of children what can one expect. This is bizarre.

"Lead-tainted toys accounted for only a small percentage of all toys recalled, he added." If your children are only a little brain damaged that's a good thing I guess.

"''Mattel is worried that the Chinese government is going to make it difficult for them to produce, put their costs up and hurt their stock price,'' Navarro said."

"Manufacturing toys in China has helped Mattel and other U.S. companies lower manufacturing and labor costs, helping boost profits."

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/bus...em&ex=1190606400&en=b7ead03c7ae23694&ei=5087


I can hear all the free market libertarians now, but...if...only...spare us your BS.
 
so no free markets cause some dillweed at Mattel fucked up. More and more regulation right midtool?
 
midcan5 said:
I love Corporate America they just don't love our children

In a world in which your stock price matters more than the safety of children what can one expect. This is bizarre.

"Lead-tainted toys accounted for only a small percentage of all toys recalled, he added." If your children are only a little brain damaged that's a good thing I guess.

"''Mattel is worried that the Chinese government is going to make it difficult for them to produce, put their costs up and hurt their stock price,'' Navarro said."

"Manufacturing toys in China has helped Mattel and other U.S. companies lower manufacturing and labor costs, helping boost profits."

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/bus...em&ex=1190606400&en=b7ead03c7ae23694&ei=5087


I can hear all the free market libertarians now, but...if...only...spare us your BS.
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You're an idiot.
 
Such profound replies, Mattel apologizes for shit products, not to Americans who bought them, but to the Chinese who are taking our jobs due to corporate greed and this is the best you clowns can do?
 
That was pretty strange Midcan, I read scanned the story and thought WTF ?

Is Mattel worried that they won't get enough cheap toys for christmas suckers ?
 
China is thinking about confiscating all of Mattel's property in China. Which would boost their image. It's the Chinese governments fault for allowing the toys to be lead tainted, but you guys would congratulate China for the move. Just like whenever the Chinese government let a bunch of bad meds get onto the market, and they murdered an innocent scapegoat, you guys praised them for that.
 
"The sight of a major American corporation going on bent knee to a nation that flouts the rule of law, cares not about human rights, freedom of speech, product and food safety, has emerged as a global factor in a warming climate, can't get its pollution under control-- is terrible.

But of greater concern for now is the position of our economies in relation to each other, and the growing sense that the United States is the subordinate partner.

Our own trade policies (successive presidents) encouraged the massive transformation of the US economy to a low inflation environment that is regulated, not by what we manufacture, but by what China does. So what do we do when Chinese products threaten the health of children, we apologize?"


http://www.counterpunch.org/farago09222007.html
 
LOFL, midtool is just starting to read papers.
We've been kissing china's ass for slave labor for over a decade. Are you buying bellbottoms this week.
:clink:
 
Toppy, maybe jackasses like you are buying into buying cheap shit because that's how microeconomics works some of us aren't.

CHILD WELL-BEING TABLE

1. Netherlands
2. Sweden
3. Denmark
4. Finland
5. Spain
6. Switzerland
7. Norway
8. Italy
9. Republic of Ireland
10. Belgium
11. Germany
12. Canada
13. Greece
14. Poland
15. Czech Republic
16. France
17. Portugal
18. Austria
19. Hungary
20. United States
21. United Kingdom

Source: Unicef

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6359363.stm
 
midcan5 said:
"Our own trade policies (successive presidents) encouraged the massive transformation of the US economy to a low inflation environment that is regulated, not by what we manufacture, but by what China does. So what do we do when Chinese products threaten the health of children, we apologize?"
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midcan5, regulated <> free market...

Had we lived in a free market, many more companies would not be sending work over to China.
 
"The sight of a major American corporation going on bent knee to a nation that flouts the rule of law, cares not about human rights, freedom of speech, product and food safety, has emerged as a global factor in a warming climate, can't get its pollution under control-- is terrible.


Now, if it was Hugo Chavez and Venezuela, we might actually rightwing corporate america and its rightwing allies in a tizzy about all this. ;)
 
uscitizen said:
So we have just not gone far enough yet in the direction that encourages trade with China ?
hmmph...
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No, I'm saying blaming free markets for China's lead tainted toys, when these things are supposedly regulated now, is dishonest. In opposition to his statements, had we had a free-market, more of these toy manufacturers would be producing here in the US, rather than China, because it would be more benficial for them. Instead, our policies that go against free markets are what pushed these companies over into China. It's convenient for midcan to blame free-markets of course, it's easy to blame something that doesn't exist, which he will admit, therefore you can assume any outcome you want. He likes to assume that all children would fall over dead.

So tell me, what are we doing to stop jobs from going over to China?
 
DigitalDave said:
No, I'm saying blaming free markets for China's lead tainted toys, when these things are supposedly regulated now, is dishonest. In opposition to his statements, had we had a free-market, more of these toy manufacturers would be producing here in the US, rather than China, because it would be more benficial for them. Instead, our policies that go against free markets are what pushed these companies over into China. It's convenient for midcan to blame free-markets of course, it's easy to blame something that doesn't exist, which he will admit, therefore you can assume any outcome you want. He likes to assume that all children would fall over dead.

So tell me, what are we doing to stop jobs from going over to China?
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But "you're against free markets" is the talking point globalists use to smear china detractors. How about outlawing slave goods, is that acceptable to you? Or should we make lead paint the preferred paint of the century?
 
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