Government regulation and manufacturer oversight are the only ways to protect many children. It’s easy to blame the consumer, but how about the children that don’t have a choice? Leaving the government’s role out of the equation when it comes to protecting children is amoral.

As well-documented in Abigail Goldman’s Pulitzer-winning series for the Los Angeles Times, Wal-Mart’s unrelenting corporate mandate to push companies to deliver product at lower and lower costs has forced companies to go overseas or go broke.

Read up, and consider your own buying choices and how they fit in to all this.

If “lower prices” is all you care about and all you support, then you’re voting with your $$$ for a system that delivers exactly that — at what’s now clearly a hidden cost to our country in terms of jobs lost and the quality of the products available.

Wal-Mart is a smart and nimble company, and it WILL change if it needs to to remain competitive because that’s what we as consumers demand. I cannot honestly believe that the late Sam Walton’s desire was to destroy the people and country he loved.

As the motto go..”you get what you pay for”. Use third world countries with no regulations to produce your goods and then expect them to be up to US standards ??? HA-HA. I’m no expert but it’s sure as heck obvious to me that there is zero oversight on all this globalization.

As I have stated a couple of times, my personal trade agreement with China is off. Nobody can make me buy their stuff, and if I even *suspect* that the wares are from China, the content of my wallet is much more proprietary than any information they give me (or not).

My shopping habits did change, tremendously, and I support local farmers by shopping their stuff.

Christmas is easy: we have a no-present policy. No guilt, no commerce - simply a nice dinner and quality time.

Try it, and you will have a fabulous Christmas, while the people around you can’t catch a breath in their haste to buy, buy, buy in order to get, get, get…. ;)

The agreement signed in China was a sham. The Communist Chinese government promises to stop using lead paint on exported toys - “trust us” they say. If we are foolish enough to believe this BS then it only proves that the lead paint has succeeded in its purpose - to accelerate the dumbing down of the American electorate.

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I hope this isn’t just a little hype to try to save the 2007 holiday shopping season, which should be greatly affected by the continuous string of recalls we’ve been hearing about. Timing of this report’s appearance would be just days BEFORE Black Friday, the traditional kickoff to holiday shopping madness!