Comments on: Lighting Up Halloween: Target’s Pulls Another Chinese-Made Product

By: Former Federal LEO

Former Federal LEO — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:26:46 +0000

However, you juss gotta luv them China Dolls (and that steel guitar with Slim’s high-lonesome voice)

I’d rather have a doll of clay
That I could call my own
Than someone else just like you
With a heart of stone

She’ll never lea-eave me
She’ll not decei-eive me
And never grie-ieve me
My china doll

By: foo

foo — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:56:56 +0000

China and the US have a mutually parasitic relationship. We buy their cheap junk, they lend us money (so we can keep buying their junk).

By: rafflaw

rafflaw — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:07:30 +0000

I refuse to by anything from China. I am especially vigilant with any toys and pet products. One good way to not buy Chinese products is to stay away from Wal Mart.

By: pete

pete — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:07:49 +0000

bet the packaging cost more than the contents

By: Dredd

Dredd — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:55:09 +0000

Mike S,

“When you have a faux communist country turn fascist and building an industrial base base on little more than slave labor, the manufacturing employees have little incentive to produce quality work.”

Yes, and everyone note that they are dangerous to our financial well being in several ways. They are in cahoots with the Arab nations, and other nations, to do the dollar and our economy harm.

http://blogdredd.blogspot.com/2009/10/phase-four-of-currency-wars.html

By: seamus

seamus — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:25:01 +0000

My kid had his 4th b-day this weekend. He was flooded in Chinese plastic. Depressing. I need to learn how to widdle wooden toys. And Mr. Spindell is right on point. I see no difference between the Chinese oligopoly ond the Russian, which supoosedly is no longer Marxist. Currupt billionaires run the world, China not excepted.

By: Mike Spindell

Mike Spindell — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:46:18 +0000

When you have a faux communist country turn fascist and building an industrial base base on little more than slave labor, the manufacturing employees have little incentive to produce quality work. More at fault beyond that though, is the rise of rapacious business moguls, who view the bottom line as justification for any excess. That some of them get executed in show trials is just for them the risk of doing business. When I think of all the dedicated Maoists I used to know and the nonsense they spouted, it heartens me to know that I saw through their crap at a younger, more naive time in my life. That the US is mortgaged to this travesty of a country, is one more sign that our Corporatist leaders care only for their own bottom lines.

By: kathleen

kathleen — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:16:22 +0000

It’s not just Target. A few years back, I bought some Rayovac (so-called) “industrial” flashlights for emergency use at work–to place in people’s desks in case of power failure. The same thing happened: insert batteries, and flashlights (ALL of them) got very hot.

Upon examination, it was obvious why this happened: the construction of the flashlight resulted in shorting out of any batteries inserted. Fortunately, I discovered this before any desks ignited. I alerted vendor, and Rayovac, and CPSC (?) but no one seemed to care. My impression was that I should expect such things. Good luck finding any good flashlights, without resorting to MagLite versions.

Even though all possible cost-cutting mods have already been taken, manufacturers just keep making things even cheaper, until the items no longer perform their functions. Rayovac is a case in point, but not unique.

By: Jack B.

Jack B. — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:54:39 +0000

Fortunately, Target still has plenty of Mainway Latex Corporation's children's Invisible Pedestrian costumes available.

By: Anonymously Yours

Anonymously Yours — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:47:39 +0000

Burn Baby Burn, I guess Target has a lesson leaned. Humm, but will they end up on Ebay?